As president of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, former No. 2 at the Pentagon and a leading proponent of the Iraq War, has won both praise and criticism. He has badgered the United States and other wealthy countries to cut subsidies to aid development in poorer countries, fervently pursued anti-corruption policies, and announced moves aimed at strengthening the bank's internal watchdog, the Department of Institutional Integrity (Inter Press Service, April 18, 2006). |