 | $350 Million to Support Reforms
World Bank financial assistance to focus on helping the government improve its fiscal and institutional policies, as it weathers the global financial crisis.
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| Guatemala is a multi-cultural middle-income country that faces some particularly difficult development challenges. Poverty in Guatemala is high and deep, and the country has remarkably unequal distributions of income, resources and opportunities.
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| Helping Hand in the Fight Against Poverty
World Bank vice president for Latin America and the Caribbean, Pamela Cox, met with President Alvaro Colom to discuss additional Bank support in his efforts to eradicate poverty in Guatemala.
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|  | High Food prices pose Risk to Development Plans
A World Bank report says that food prices will continue to rise in 2009, preventing efforts to reduce poverty.
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|  | Remittances: Fostering DevelopmentÂ
Even as remittances to Central America decline after the global crisis, a report by the WB indicates that they have a beneficial impact on development issues, especially education and health.
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|  | 10 Things You Did Not Know about the World Bank in Central America
Strengthening the Investment Environment - Forging Strategies with Civil Society - Preserving the Environment.
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|  | Access to Justice - Mobile Court in Guatemala
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