"Bank Campaigning for Self-Criticism"

The World Bank defends right to BE criticized.

There will be much smugness about how Singapore is snubbed by the World Bank's belief in "effective inclusion of the voices of civil society". But let me propose something less starry-eyed: that the World Bank, like many other hegemonic organizations, include dissent only as a strategy of silencing it.

Go read Bakhtin.

By allowing demonstrations, even campaigning for them, the World Bank may no longer be criticized for not listening to "the voices of the civil society". Yet, if such criticism were effective (which is really the goal, not just the opportunity to "be heard") then why, after so many years, there is still the need for the (same) criticism?