VOL. XXXI

NO. 50

19-SEPTEMBER-1988

Financial and Banking News

AID FLOWS

IDA Lends $30.2mn to Mauritania and South Yemen

The International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank'sconcessionary lending affiliate, has agreed to lend Mauritania SDRl3.2mn($18.2mn) to support the country's educational reform program, and to extendSDR8.7mn ($12mn) in loans to South Yemen to finance a drinking water project inal Mukalla, the second largest city in the country.