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EDITORIAL: Appointed by Clinton, World Bank president deserves GOP support.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2004
Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 4--Amid the platitudes spouted from the platform at the IMF/World Bank sessions, one speech touched a chord.
The address of James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, was partly a call to action on poverty reduction and partly valedictory. Wolfensohn, like Gordon Brown, is rightly frustrated that the millennium goals for bringing education and health care to the poorest countries are being met at a snail's pace.
He called for more Group of Seven summits and more global leadership to ensure progress on the poverty battle.
But Wolfensohn has no idea as to whether he will be around to deliver. His second term as World Bank chairman expires in June 2005 and word in...
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