Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.

The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.

We do have some assistance from the World Bank but not from the IMF. We are not borrowing yet, but we are considering, in the future, borrowing from the Kuwait Fund to support our infrastructure development.

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.