http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?020715crbo_books1 Review of Joseph Stiglitz’s Globalization and Its Discontents. Stiglitz is an ex-chief economic adviser of the World Bank and a Nobel laureate; his book questions the IMF’s policy of urging greater financial and capital liberalisation upon the countries it deigns to help.
(I find this issue interesting also because the anti-globalisation crowd seem to group the World Bank and the IMF together—here a former World Bank official attacks the IMF in their language. Slate: IMF and World Bank: What’s the Difference?) 10:50