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History section not chronological

The history section is seemingly in a random order. Should it not be chronologically?

Asabiyya (talk) 12:21, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Asabiyya: It looks chronological to me. 4 sections: 1944–1974, 1974–1980, 1980–1989, 1989–present, and as chronological as it can be within those sections. The only parts that stick out as odd to me are 1) the 1960 IDA formation. That comes in the middle of the preceding sentence's span, describing 1947-1968. I don't know if there's any better place to put that sentence. 2) McNamara's term as bank president from 1968-1981. This is used as an explanation for changes occurring in 1974. This could possibly be improved if you have a suggestion, but I don't think the present text is particularly confusing.

Is there something else you were thinking of? MarginalCost (talk) 16:01, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edits

146.200.44.244, the recent edits being made are entirely style edits and removing unsourced content. Nothing is being "censored" in any "tyrannical" sense, merely making it look better and removing the statement about Saudi Arabia that hasn't been backed up by any source, and making the header read more neutrally. — ser! ^{(chat to me - see my edits)} 20:39, 12 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Removed further reading list

I've removed this "further reading" list as I think it's outdated and not very helpful to the reader. There are enough in-line citations where people could read further:

Ascher, W. "New development approaches and the adaptability of international agencies: the case of the World Bank" International Organization 1983. 37, 415–439.
Bazbauers, Adrian Robert. The World Bank and Transferring Development (Springer, 2018).
Bergsen, H., Lunde, L., Dinosaurs or Dynamos? The United Nations and the World Bank at the Turn of the Century. (Earthscan, London, 1999).
Bilbert, C., and C. Vines, eds. The World Bank: Structures and Policies (Cambridge UP, 2000)
Brown, Michael Barratt. Africa's choices: after thirty years of the World Bank (Routledge, 2019).
Davis, Gloria. A history of the social development network in The World Bank, 1973-2003 (The World Bank, 2004).
Heldt, Eugénia C., and Henning Schmidtke. "Explaining coherence in international regime complexes: How the World Bank shapes the field of multilateral development finance." Review of International Political Economy (2019): 1–27. online
Heyneman, Stephen P. "The history and problems in the making of education policy at the World Bank, 1960–2000." International Journal of Educational Development 23 (2003) 315–337
Hurni, Bettina S. The Lending Policy Of The World Bank In The 1970s (1980)
Mason, Edward S., and Robert E. Asher. The world bank since Bretton Woods (Brookings Institution Press, 2010).
Pereira, João Márcio Mendes. "The World Bank as a political, intellectual, and financial actor (1944-1994)." Relaciones Internacionales 26.52 (2017): online in English
Pereira, João Márcio Mendes. "Assaulting Poverty: Politics and Economic Doctrine in the History of the World Bank (1944-2014)." Revista De História 174 (2016): 235–265. online
Polak, Jacques J., and James M. Boughton. "The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund: A Changing Relationship." in Economic Theory and Financial Policy (Routledge, 2016) pp. 92–146.
Salda, Anne C. M., ed. Historical dictionary of the World Bank (1997)
Toussaint, Eric : The World Bank: A Critical History, London: Pluto Press 2023
Weaver, Catherine. 2008. Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform. Princeton University Press.
Woods, Ngaire. The globalizers: the IMF, the World Bank, and their borrowers (Cornell UP, 2014).
World Bank. A Guide to the World Bank (2nd ed. 2007) online Archived 13 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine EMsmile (talk) 08:42, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Removed section on "training wings"

I've just removed the long section on "training wings" in this edit because the content was unsourced (one single source was given but I checked it and it didn't contain said content), outdated, not encyclopedic. It read more like content copied from some Worldbank websites. EMsmile (talk) 08:52, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]