Another Wolf For The World Bank

Sarah Anderson

May 31, 2007

Sarah Anderson directs the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington and was a staff member of the Congressionally appointed International Financial Institutions Advisory Commission (the Meltzer Commission).

Nine days after the September 11 terrorist attacks, I opened up The Washington Post and stared right into the flinty mind of one Robert B. Zoellick, the Bush administration’s pick for new World Bank president.

While the rest of the country was still in a haze of horror and confusion, Zoellick had seized the moment to advance his agenda as U.S. trade representative. In a commentary titled “Fighting Terror with Trade,” he argued that Congress needed to pass fast-track trade negotiating authority as part of their support for the “War on Terror.”