Salon.com on World Bank research: One size fits all?

Should the World Bank pour fewer millions into its impressive in house research work and divert the money thus saved to fund research at policy institutes and universities within developing countries? In a fine Salon.com essay, the author quotes Devesh Kapur's essay in a recent CGD publication and then says something that will resonate for those following the debate between William Easterly and Jeffrey Sachs:

One of the clearest fault-lines in economic debates over development and globalization is between those who believe they know one answer that fits all questions, and those who believe every question deserves a different answer -- that what works for Singapore may not work for Somalia, that the circumstances of Bangladesh require a different approach than the conditions of Brazil. It's a fault-line that transcends ideological differences between right and left, free trader and protectionist. On one side, a willingness to accept complexity and uncertainty also concedes that one may not know what the answer to a given question is; on the other, the rightness of the answer is taken as a given, and it's the implementation that must be at fault; it's never "I don't know" and always "how did you screw it up?"