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January 2012

Program-for-Results: An Innovative New Financing Instrument of the World Bank

Paul Bermingham, Director of the Bank department that is developing Program-for-Results, talks about the World Bank’s proposal to introduce a new financing instrument for its client countries—its first in 30 years.

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