IMF dan World Bank, seperti ditulis Stiglitz, bahu-membahu mengusung neoliberalisme dan neokolonialisme di muka bumi dengan dibuatnya Konsensus Washington bersama Departemen Keuangan AS pada 1980-an.
IMF and World Bank, as written by Stiglitz, work hand in hand in supporting neoliberalism and neocolonialism on earth through the making of Washington Consensus with Treasury Department of the US in 1980s.