ABSTRACT
The fundamental problematic of development is how to satisfy the requirements of both economic and social development-to activate the process of capital accumulation (stimulate economic growth) while meeting the basic needs of the population. The World Bank from the outset saw its mandate as economic reconstruction and development but in the context of the Cuban Revolution, spreading peasant uprisings and growing pressures for revolutionary change in the 1970s declared a war on poverty, which it has continued to lead ever since.
