Table of Contents

Preface: The Prisoner of Lilliput

Chapter One: A Tale of Two Ambitions

Chapter Two: "World Bank Murderer"

Chapter Three: The Renaissance President

Chapter Four: A Twister in Africa

Chapter Five: Mission Sarajevo

Chapter Six: Narcissus and the Octopus

Chapter Seven: The Cancer of Corruption

Chapter Eight: Uganda's Myth and Miracle

Chapter Nine: A Framework for Development

Chapter Ten: From Seattle to Tibet

Chapter Eleven: Waking Up to Terror

Chapter Twelve: A Plague upon Development

Chapter Thirteen: Back to the Future

Chapter Fourteen: A Lion at Carnegie

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Author

Sebastian Mallaby is the author of several books, including The Power Law, More Money Than God, The Man Who Knew, and The World's Banker. A former Financial Times contributing editor and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Reviews

"A sophisticated, evenhanded take on the [World Bank's] last decade of development efforts... Illuminating... heartbreaking... a fascinating narrative." —The New York Times"An excellent read... [Mallaby] has a talent for brilliant writing and penetrating analysis." —Financial Times

"A sophisticated, evenhanded take on the [World Bank's] last decade of development efforts... Illuminating... heartbreaking... a fascinating narrative." -The New York Times"An excellent read... [Mallaby] has a talent for brilliant writing and penetrating analysis." -Financial Times