World Bank Urges Countries Use Aid to Prevent Conflict

Rather than use their funds to alleviate the aftermath of war, countries supported by the World Bank have received a new directive. The Washington, DC based development bank is urging countries to use aid in order to prevent violent conflicts in donor countries in the first place.

A recent World Bank report declares that, “there should be far more focus on building stable government, and on justice and police, than on health and education.”

Read more about it here in a recent BBC article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13032938

Read the World Bank report entitled, “The World Development Report 2011: Conflict, Security, and Development,” here: http://wdr2011.worldbank.org/fulltext

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