WASHINGTON: Girls' schools in Bangladesh, clean water systems in Ghana, courthouses in Armenia, roads in Nicaragua. For decades, the World Bank has provided more than $10 billion a year for projects like these, the biggest source of aid for the world's poorest countries. But continuing that aid, and perhaps increasing it, is now the major hurdle before the bank's new president, Robert Zoellick, who is finding that wealthy countries are balking because of their own budget problems and lingering questions after the recent bank turmoil over its future relevance, priorities and effectiveness.
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