World Bank chief plays down aid rift with Britain
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World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has played down a row with Britain which is withholding a 50-million-pound contribution in protest at conditions attached to aid given to poor countries.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai plays down differences with the West, during a visit by top US and UK diplomats.
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The United States lost its status as the largest donor to the World Bank's main fund for poor countries, the lender said on Friday, as Britain pledged more in the latest funding round which secured a record amount of aid.
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Developing countries are agitating for greater decision-making power in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, but the head of the IMF acknowledged that political consensus on the question was lacking.
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The head of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, proposes joint aid projects in Africa with China.
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The government has pledged to provide greater debt relief for some of the world&#39;s poorest countries. It was announced on Sunday that the UK will write off its share of World Bank and African Development Bank
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The British government said it will now give the World Bank 50 million pounds (74 million euros, 99 million dollars) it had frozen in a dispute over conditions linked to aid for developing nations.
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United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan was at pains to avoid controversy during a visit to Britain, one of the chief proponents of a war in Iraq that Annan recently described as illegal.
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A new World Bank anti-corruption   strategy for developing countries should not interfere with   funding for alleviating poverty, British development secretary   Hilary Benn said on Monday.
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The World Bank Country Manager for Bosnia and Herzegovina Mr. Dirk Reinermann yesterday met with the Governor of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina Mr.
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Gordon Brown says the UK will write off its share of debts owed by the world's poorest countries to the World Bank.
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Rivalries are growing between aid agencies and media in crisis zones, a  media conference hears.
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The UK is withholding Â£50m from the World Bank in protest at the way it fights corruption, the government says.
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Britain will push for tougher U.N. sanctions against Sudan if its government does not support international efforts to end the conflict in Darfur, Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said on Tuesday.
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World Bank president Robert Zoellick backed Friday fresh proposals to drive the deadlocked round of World Trade Organization negotiations to a conclusion this year.
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Britain announced Sunday it would unilaterally write off its share of debts owed to the World Bank by the world&#39;s poorest countries.
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The world's richest man, one of its most visible social activists and Britain's leader put a sharp focus on the horrors facing Africa's poor on Thursday, saying the planet's indifference to the suffering has been scandalous.