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“While they’re certainly not contributing on the scale of the large IDA donors, it’s nonetheless a large increase for them,” said Scott Morris, a former deputy assistant secretary for development finance and debt at the U.S. Treasury Department.
The commitments “demonstrate a desire to be viewed not just as a major borrower of the World Bank but as a major shareholder in the institution,” said Morris, now a visiting policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, an aid research group in Washington.
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