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Bank`s world

  • 14/02/2008

some of India's critical public health schemes have a long track record of corruption. The World Bank has a long record of hiring expensive consultants to tell us so. In this cynical theatre arrives another review by the bank of health programmes funded by its loans. It tells us how corruption dogs procurement of drugs and other essentials under programmes designed to deal with serious diseases like tuberculosis, malaria and hiv/aids.

The handling of these schemes by successive governments in India is indefensible. There has been no concerted effort to weed out corruption and make these programmes deliver

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