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Article: World Bank president urges more voting shares of developing countries
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- October 6, 2009
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World Bank president urges more voting shares of developing
countries World Bank president urges more voting shares of
developing countries
ISTANBUL, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- World Bank President Robert Zoellick
called Tuesday for a bigger voice for developing countries by giving
them half of the voting rights in the 186- member Bank, urging the
institution must reform to catch up with changing international
economic order.
The Bank's shareholders should go beyond the currently agreed
reforms that would increase the voting share of developing countries
to at least 47 percent and give a 50 percent share for developing
countries, said Zoellick in a speech at an annual meeting of the
Board of ...