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April 13, 2003: World Bank and IMF Announce Plans to Send Their Economists to Iraq to Assess its Needs

2003-04-13

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund announce that they will send their economists to Iraq to assess needs for reconstruction as soon as it is safe to do so. The decision was made “with strong pressure from the United States,” the New York Times reports. [New York Times, 4/14/2004]