The primary focus of the Bank today is poverty alleviation. Yet the Bank also has performed many other functions in the course of its work. One of the lesser-known is that of mediation. In this excerpt from a 1987 oral history interview, Victor Umbricht tells the story of his role in the mediation of the dissolution of the East African Community. Umbricht joined the staff of the Bank in 1953 as Deputy Director of Operations for Europe, African and...
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