This article gathers together the main elements that make up the concept of the World Bank´s social policy from recent reportings published about poverty and society in the official page of this organism. The main idea is that it is a critical description of the Bank´s concept of social policy, contesting each one of its more explicit arguments to show a perspective organically linked to the middle class. That perspective is based on the interests of those middle class segments tied up to a project for society towards capitalist reorganization in a conjuncture of structural crisis. Therefore, the World Bank´s concept of social policy follows a deeply ideological and political dimension. The way the Bank uses instruments such as the analyzed documents to assure middle class hegemony in the contemporary scenery certifies that the ideological and political chock is present, which shows that the fight among social classes is still up-to-date.
Social policy; World Bank; Social issue
