“Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused through society.”

Robert McNamara (1967); quoted in: Bruce Rich (1994) Mortgaging the Earth: The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment and the Crisis of Development, p. 83

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