The World Bank: Development Agency, Credit Union, or Institutional Dinosaur?

Aspects of healthcare policy in Malaysia: Universalism, targeting, and privatization

“…This would allow the government to concentrate its limited health resources on the 'really deserving poorer citizens'. This is a remarkable echo of Jessica Einhorn's call to wind down the World Bank's lending arm for middle-income countries, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) (Einhorn, 2006), which followed upon the recommendations of the Meltzer Commission (2000) for a triage of borrower countries: debt cancellation and performance-based grants for the most destitute of highly indebted countries, as opposed to the more 'credit-worthy' borrowers with access to capital markets, who should be weaned from multilateral lending agencies and henceforth be serviced by private lending sources (the privatization of the IBRD, as it were, by divesting to private capital markets its development lending to 'market-capable' middle-income countries) (Chan, 2008).…”