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pragmatic, problem-solving image that the Reports aim to promote we identify a
narrow and pre-framed position that eschews radical or alternative agendas. The
Reports engage in numerous discursive ploys to undermine, ignore or manipulate other
positions and establish the Reports (and, by extension, the World Bank) as the
repository of development ‘common sense’. While the Reports are
impressive synthesizing documents, they have lost their ability to play a truly
leading role in thinking about development because of their failure to debate
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