Numbers Man - by In Development Magazine and Oliver Kim

History remembers two Robert McNamaras.

This post is also available on the In Development website. History remembers two Robert McNamaras. Lingering in public memory is McNamara as US secretary of defense—the architect of America’s escalation in Vietnam and, for a time, one of the most vilified figures in the country. Then, for a thin slice of development specialists, Robert McNamara is remembered as president of the World Bank. From 1968 to 1981, he led a second war, the war against global poverty, a struggle to which he dedicated extraordinary personal effort—but a war which, for him, ended also in disillusionment. It is…

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