When we look at it through this lens, it makes sense that all of the World Bank’s past presidents have been not development experts (as one might expect of an organisation devoted to development and poverty reduction), but rather US army bosses and Wall Street executives – people who have a strategic interest in America’s role in the global economic system. Here they are, in order of appearance: Eugene Meyer, Chairman of the Federal Reserve John McCloy, US Assistant Secretary of War Eugene Black, bank executive with Chase George Woods, bank executive with First Boston Corporation Robert
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