The World Bank is to loan $900m (£574m) to Pakistan to help it recover from its worst ever flooding. The devastating floods have affected up to 20 million people and left some 2,000 dead, say officials. But the UN says international aid has been slow and that it has raised only a third of the $460m (£294m) needed for emergency relief. Pakistan's High Commissioner to Britain said it could take five years and $15bn (£9.6bn) for the country to recover. The World Bank funds will come through the reprogramming of planned projects and the reallocation of money, a World Bank spokesman said. We are reprioritising to make the funds immediately available," he told Reuters news agency.
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