Africa: Development: World Bank Chief Says Africa is First Priority

24 October 2005

Helsinki — Less than six months into his job at the helm of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz has announced that tackling poverty and deprivations in Africa is going to be the World Bank's top priority.

"I think the situation of sub-Saharan Africa is not acceptable. It has to be the first priority of the World Bank," he told members of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank (PNoWB) meeting here at the Finnish Parliament over the weekend.

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