世界银行的援助在某些时候充斥着一些流行理念；比如说，被推销给受援助国的华盛顿共识自由市场政策实际上导致了撒哈拉以南非洲的去工业化和收入下降。
The World Bank’s assistance was sometimes overburdened by prevailing ideology; for example, the free-market Washington Consensus policies foisted on recipients actually led to deindustrialization and declining income in Sub-Saharan Africa.