In her blog earlier in the week, Nancy Birdsall, director of the Washington development thinktank, Center for Global Development, has brickbats for the Washington Post for their accusations that Bank staff are not serious about corruption: 

"My guess is they are serious and more so today than ever. But they know all too well there is a tradeoff between a no-tolerance approach to anti-corruption, and "doing development"—a tradeoff that they feared Ms. Folsom, the controversial head of the department appointed there by Mr. Wolfowitz, refused to admit. This is NOT the kind of tradeoff that the Bush Administration saw for Iraq reconstruction, when it issued sole source contracts to Halliburton to get on with the job. This is the kind of tradeoff that Bank staff see when they are discussing a health project in India that will save children's lives—but fear there are untraceable and unverifiable patronage appointments that might infect the new effort."

That would be the same Ms. Folsom who is still in post today then, wouldn't it?