The World Bank and the gods of lending

Introduction: Broken promises and the gods of lending

Managing for mediocrity

The economist managers

Confucius and the Bank

Feeding the beast

Groping in the dark

And darkness was upon the face of the implementers

A very special account

Playing with the books

"C" is for corruption

As the train left the station

A new regime

The Potemkin village

Death by a thousand cuts

Alhaji the car dealer

Bigger than Wal-Mart

Lamin tells all

In the eye of the beholder

And the dance begins

The fifty-year dilemma

The cost of corruption

So easy to steal

The essence of knowledge

Reporting the truth

Money can't buy happiness

Taming the gods of lending.