Former Bank consultant Peter Griffiths has charged the Bank with pushing policies which would have led to the starvation of a third of a million people in Sierra Leone. Bank recommendations to halt government imports of rice expecting the private sector to take over, combined with a recently liberalised exchange rate would have meant a ten-fold increase in prices overnight. Why the Bank failed to consult either the Ministry of Agriculture or Griffiths himself on the agreement could only have been explained by the logic of the Bank’s “policy of imposing extreme Reaganite free market policy on every country in the world.”

The Bank imposes extreme Reaganite free market policy on every country in the world.