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U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee to hold third hearing on Combating Corruption in the MDBs September 28

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold a hearing on "Combating Corruption in the Multilateral Developments (III)" on Tuesday, September 28, at 2:30 p.m. in 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building. The hearing will be presided by Senator Richard Lugar. Witnesses will be announced shortly.

This hearing is the fourth in recent months related to Multilateral Development Bank oversight, demonstrating increasing concern in Congress about the need to address corruption in Multilateral Development Bank lending.

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At a hearing held on May 13, 2004 Manish Bapna, Executive Director of the Bank Information Center, gave testimony regarding MDB corruption on behalf of several civil society organizations.


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