ABSTRACT
The last chapter concluded that the Bank’s anti-poverty strategy is somewhat misplaced because poverty is symptomatic of the absence of power, rather than a fundamental problem in itself. The most important critical frame of analysis is thus not the technicalities of policy alternatives, but the construction and development of power relationships, a subject of which the Bank steers well clear in its development research and public pronouncements. This chapter will focus on how the Bank manages to secure its own power.
