Message-ID: <19980527213218.14672.qmail@hotmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 14:32:18 PDT From: abdus samad <mailto:samad_100@HOTMAIL.COM> Subject: Re: infoDev Offers Year 2000 Grants to Poorest Countries To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
The usual 12m to world bank staff and consultants and 4 to the purchase of equipment and the countries are left with a loan of 16m. They gain a liability of 16m to make the WB look good... and obviously the staff gains a promotion.>From mailto:owner-devel-l@american.edu Fri May 22 09:26:48 1998
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>From: Robert Davison <mailto:isrobert@IS.CITYU.EDU.HK>
>Subject: Re: infoDev Offers Year 2000 Grants to Poorest Countries
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>just an opinion - it seems that $14M is peanuts given the magnitude of
>the problem and its extent. if the UK alone can offer $16.7M, i'd hope
>that the WB could dip into its pockets a little deeper. any initiatives
>from other countries/institutions? what kind of conditions are attached
>to the grants?
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