The news comes as the World Bank is about to open its annual meeting in Washington--an event that has been troubled in recent years by protests that the Bank and its sister Institution, the International Monetary Fund, have done too little for the world's poor.The new economic reasearch will not put an end to that dispute.Vast populations remain poor, and many still question the wisdom of World Bank policies.Nonetheless,the research findings are helpful to understand what policies should be followed by those institutions and hundreds of other development groups working very hard to hasten the pace of world economic progress. If dramatic gains are under way, the present policies--calling for open markets, free business activities, and tight monetary control--are working and correct.
But critics of IMF and World Bank policies maintain that such economic success stories as Japan,China,South Korea and Singapore are rooted in more than just "free" markets.
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