Tuesday, April 25, 2006

World Bank accused of lying

The world's largest foreign aid organisation is accused today of deception and medical malpractice that has contributed to the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of children from malaria.

The World Bank, which has a $20bn (£11.2bn) budget and a mission to reduce poverty, is alleged to have published misleading financial claims and false statistical accounts and wasted money on ineffective medicines for treating the disease, which kills more than a million people a year, 90 per cent of them children.

And this is surprising? A financial institution, albiet an international one under the umbrella of the United Nations, lying, cheating and killing people? After all, isn't Paul Wolfowitz its president? Need I say more?

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