Re: Bank on Asian Miracles

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Reflecting their good cop/bad cop pairing, the World Bank is exquisitely
sensitive to criticism, unlike the IMF, which pays no attention to its
critics. So the WB is a good place to make a stink.

Doug

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On Sat, 29 Jan 1994, Tavis Barr wrote [responding to Ben Crow's posting on
the World Bank's response to MITI and Alice Amsden]:

> My first thought when I read this message was that I'd pick up the report
> right away 'cause Saturday Night Live has been boring lately.  On second
> thought it seems like we might have an opportunity to make a stink; I
> remember from time to time, people on pen-l have been talking about
> finding a way to propagandize about certain issues (having the URPE board
> write something on NAFTA came up; an alternative Nobel Prize also did).
> It seems like this might be another issue to go on the offensive about,
> since the WB has actually in some sense "taken the bait."  Calling
> Amsden's work "revisionist" may be defeatable even on a steep playing
> fiels since the level of argumentation goes pretty steep in the other
> direction.  Is there anything anyone thinks we can do?
>
> Say Cheese,
> Tavis
>