William Easterly

Time since Bank’s Commitment

This clock shows the time since the World Bank promised an investigation on Thursday, September 22 into the charges that they financed a project in Uganda in which poor people had their homes, cattle, and crops destroyed as the project forced them off their own land.

http://twitter.com/#!/WorldBank/status/116939808877707264

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