Beyond the World Bank

The Universal Hope: One Man’s Fight Against the World Bank’s Poverty Trap

In this open access book, Matthew Greenslade sheds some much-needed light on the damage being done by the World Bank’s insistence on pursuing a poverty-targeted approach to social protection in lower income countries, while also describing some of the successes in the grassroots fights for a more universal approach.

All this is organized around the true story of Stephen Kidd, an ex-mis…