Monday, May 9, 2011

World Bank Humor

During my time as a geocoder, I have read (or at least skimmed over) a lot of World Bank documents. I have only come across one that made me laugh, however:
D. Project location (if known)
Disaster recovery and vulnerability reduction works will be implemented throughout Bolivia, with particular emphasis on those areas most affected by events caused by the recent El Nino phenomenon.

E. Borrower’s Institutional Capacity for Safeguard Policies [from PCN]
I don’t know what we want to say here. they probably suck
I wish I knew the background story behind this document. Did someone intentionally release the document with this comment in it as a joke, or did someone just forget to go back and change this?