World Development Report Sustaining hope Aug 22nd 2002 From The Economist print edition Is the World Bank turning Marxist? STRANGE goings-on at the World Bank. Not long ago, its director for the environment, Kristalina Georgieva, asked her team a question: why care about nature? Given the bank's focus on poverty, she said, the reason was surely its impact on human welfare. After all, as the bank itself has noted, environmental problems such as air and water pollution are the leading preventable cause of health ailments in poor countries. Yet when she made that point, half the audience disagreed. One green...