On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 9:50 PM, ashok _ <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Closer to home (for most in this list that is), Manmohan Singh and >>> Montek Singh Ahluwalia both receive pensions from the World Bank. >> >> I have read this stated as a worrying thing before, but why is this >> problematic ? >> If they worked for companies prior to becoming politicians or >> technocrats they would receive pensions....its a declared and >> documented and legally entitled income. I dont see anything >> inappropriate in that. Isnt this the same thing ? I mean if they ran >> the country as a communist state the world bank would not stop giving >> them their pensions. > > > It's disturbing for the same reason that it's of concern to many that > Dick Cheney and Haliburton have links in the past. We are shaped by > our past, and we are known by the company we keep. >If Messrs. Singh & > Ahluwalia cut their teeth in the World Bank circles, they are no doubt > persuaded to a greater or smaller degree by its policies, and think it > good for the world. >
yeah i think cheney was the CEO of halliburton...and i remember there was a case by the nigerian govt against halliburton for the period of his tenure of his CEO. MMS and montek were consultants and bureaucrats at the world bank .... i think you are comparing oil and water in terms of designations and what it implies. anyhow, the world bank is very far away from being a closeted ideology driven unit... much like the UN you get appointed to these positions based on a mix of country quotas, domain knowledge, personal leverage etc... its far from being a club of freemasons, i dont think any sane person working for such organizations gets influenced by the organizational ideology (which itself is a cliche at best). i dont think either of them needed a world bank to make them corrupt - you can be corrupt even without that :-) taking the Cheney example ..was it Halliburton shaping Cheney ... or Cheney shaping Haliburton to his ideology ?
