Most big organisations wash their dirty laundry in private. Not the World Bank. On the website of its Department of Institutional Integrity, soiled garments are on full display. A photograph shows a rural road, financed by the bank, that is 30% narrower than it should be; another pictures a hut packed with children because classrooms the bank paid for are being used by a local official to store onions. This week, the department issued its first "integrity report" since 2005; it reveals a basketful of bribery, fiddles and frauds.
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