The World Bank says it is the fastest-improving as a place to do business.
Optimistically, the World Bank says it will ensure that every penny is accounted for.
The World Bank says aid makes up more than 95% of Afghanistan's GDP.
The World Bank says the public distribution programme, which soaks up almost half the money, has brought limited benefits.
The World Bank says it is now giving financial support to the Lesotho Government's investigation into corruption and bribery.
The World Bank says food prices are at "dangerous levels" and have pushed 44 million more people into poverty since last June.
The World Bank says that the biggest single factor stopping the growth of the Palestinian economy is the restrictions they face on movement.
Meanwhile, the World Bank says there will soon be enough projects under way to meet the expected demand from rich countries under Kyoto.
The World Bank says that it limited the size of cash handouts for fear that officials would steal them or recipients squander them.
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The World Bank says that, since the G20 leaders last met in November in Washington, DC, 17 of their countries have restricted trade.
"Resolving the dilemma posed by aid dependence requires a radical rethinking of the relationships among Africa's civil society, governments, and donors, " the World Bank says.
The World Bank says prices are not quite back at those levels - just 3% below - although they are 27% higher than a year ago.
They also periodically review and update business regulations as part of a broader competitiveness agenda and take advantage of new technologies through e-government initiatives, the World Bank says.
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The World Bank says that rural wages (outside farms) fell by almost a fifth between 2007 and 2009 as migrant workers fled to their villages in search of jobs.
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In a report this week, the World Bank says Indonesia faces many of the same problems encountered by transitional democracies in Eastern Europe, but fails to do much about it.
Cities have always traditionally been the centers of the world's wealth, and the World Bank says that as much as 80 percent of the future economic growth of the developing world will come from its cities.
As the euro crisis continues and the West shows little signs of growth, the World Bank says that global economic growth is increasingly dependent on the BRICS countries, which account for 27 percent of global purchasing power and 45 percent of the world's workforce.
In a report released in Beijing on Wednesday, the World Bank says it expects the Eurozone will post no growth at all in 2012 and overall developed markets, which at this point just includes Japan and the U.S. in a stumbling potato sack race, growing at just 1.4%.
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Though Joseph Stiglitz, a former chief economist for the World Bank, says he wanted the WDR to raise hard questions even ones the bank could not answer in practice this rarely happened.
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As for the Far East, Singapore is the easiest country in the world in which to start and run a business, says the World Bank.
But if you want to destroy the euro - the second most important central bank in the world now says it will be there to stop you.
The cost of Internet connectivity in Africa, says the World Bank, is the highest in the world - some USD 250-300 per month.
In developing countries as a whole, the average growth in cereal yields has fallen from 3-6% a year in the 1960s to 1-2% a year now, says the World Bank.
"There has been a lot of talk about food prices at the UN, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the general feeling is we are not in the same situation we were in in 2008, " says Marc Sadler, senior agriculture economist at the World Bank.
Getting the clean-up plans in place, says an official from the World Bank, which is co-funding the project, has been like pulling teeth.
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But Indira Konjhodzic, the World Bank head in Croatia, says a lot has been done already.
"Asian governments are realizing that you can't pick winners, " says the World Bank's Husain.
One other report from Shanghai's China Business News says the World Bank has published a report on China's government-controlled business.
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Its teaching methods and curriculums are outdated, says the World Bank.
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