When then US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers tried to change the Bank’s Decennial report on poverty – to downgrade concerns about insecurity and empowerment and to focus more narrowly on income – the Bank prevailed. When the US tried to suppress the Bank’s call for a more balanced intellectual property regime – one more consonant with the interests of developing countries – the Bank prevailed yet again.
在Wolfensohn的带领下，世界银行一次次地对抗美国。克林顿和布什政府也许都会更喜欢一个更为顺从的总裁。那时候的美国财政部副部长劳伦斯·桑莫斯（Lawrence Summers）试图改变世界银行对贫困问题所作的十年报告——降低对安全缺乏和赋权问题的关注程度，把焦点更集中地放在收入问题上——但是世界银行胜利了。当世界银行呼吁一个更为平衡、更符合发展国家利益的知识产权制度，而当美国试图压制时，世界银行再次胜利了。