Robert McNamara’s Other Legacy: Transforming the World Bank
by Nancy Birdsall | July 8th, 2009 | 09:00 amPredictably, and perhaps appropriately, the flood of remembrances of Robert McNamara is focusing on his role as the architect of the Vietnam War. Yet McNamara was also a transformative president of the World Bank, shaping both that institution and the larger development enterprise in ways that are still felt today. McNamara served for 13 years [...]