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In 1997, Wolfensohn identified ‘the cancer of corruption;’ he declared that corruption and poor governance undermined social and economic development. This recognition of governance as important for development was partly a response to the external criticism that the Bank had ignored corrupt political processes in its client countries.
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© 2009 Xu Yi-chong and Patrick Weller
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Yi-chong, X., Weller, P. (2009). Governance: Political, not Politics. In: Inside the World Bank. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230100084_8
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