The Ugly American Bank

The Ugly American Bank
By PAUL KRUGMAN
The New York Times
Published: March 18, 2005
You can say this about Paul Wolfowitz's qualifications to lead the World Bank: He has been closely associated with America's largest foreign aid and economic development project since the Marshall Plan.
I'm talking, of course, about reconstruction in Iraq. Unfortunately, what happened there is likely to make countries distrust any economic advice Mr. Wolfowitz might give. ...