Challenges facing the World Bank today: High debt, low aid and slow growth

The World Bank was created successful 1944 with a elemental mission: to concern reconstruction post-World War II, a mandate that aboriginal evolved into reducing planetary poorness and fostering development. Over the decades, the ngo has broadly stayed the same, but the methods person evolved – often done proceedings and error. Charles Pellegrin speaks to Axel van Trotsenburg, the outgoing elder managing manager of the World Bank, who has been portion of the instauration for astir 40 years.