World Bank Group MD Reinforces Support to Sri Lanka
Colombo - Dr.Mahmoud Mohieldin, Managing Director of World Bank met with President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Economic Minister Basil Rajapaksa, Central Bank Governor Nivard Cabraal, Treasury Secretary P. B. Jayasundera, and other senior officials last week to discuss how the World Bank can support the government to realize the country’s ambitious development goals as articulated in the Mahinda Chintana. He discussed a new partnership approach of sharing ideas and knowledge that is based on the initiative of democratizing development – a concept laid out by Mr. Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank Group.