IAFF 6101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13.2: William Easterly, Test Case, Lee Kuan Yew
16 May 2016
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Wb president mccloy suggest mission to colombia president ospin. Test case to shift from european recovery to 3rd world dev. Jorge gaita, champion of colombia"s poor majority, was assassinated. Violencia , a deadly political conflict between liberals and conservatives (109) The wb report didn"t mention politics/violence, and the new dictatorial gomez government was enthusiastic about the wb report, which lent legitimacy to his rule as the benevolent developer of the country (110). The wb remained blind to such violence, because the us government more than happy to have such a reliable anticommunist as gomez during the early cold war era (112) Nonpolitical clause of wb"s 1944 articles of agreement justifies blindness (115: this article against politics made it easier to use the bank to pursue politics (118) Modern status quo in dev technocratic ideas that appeal to humanitarians who care about world poverty and that also appeal to foreign-policy realists who care only about us national security (112-
