World Bank contributes $2bn to Washington

A study from George Mason University has found that the World Bank generates $2 billion in economic activity annually for the Washington DC region. This figure includes $851 million paid to nearly 14,000 employees, consultants and contractors, and $217 million paid for goods and services. According to the study's author, Professor Stephen Fuller, "if the Bank left to another world capital, there would be a hue and cry about the loss of jobs and income." Perhaps the next time the US Congress threatens to withhold funding, IFI campaigners should lobby to move the bank-after decades of interest payments many Southern capitals could use the cash.

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Published: 8 May 2002 , last edited: 21 July 2003

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