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Rewarding allies, pocket change.
"More reconstruction money for Afghanistan and Iraq? Sure! New loans for Pakistan? Yes sir!" Christian Science Monitor reviews the controversy over Wolfowitz. It concludes, however, that the Bank is becoming increasingly irrelevant, still useful for rewarding allies, but being dwarfed by other financial flows.
In aggregate for Southern countries this may be true, but not for the most aid-dependent ones, notably in Africa.
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Globe and Mail: Euros Already Agreed not to Raise Questions
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Zoellick will get the nod from Germany.
An opportunity at the World Bank
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