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From Caribbean Life:By Azad AliThe World Bank has approved a US$30 million grant that will provide Haiti with urgently needed funds to close its budget gap and support the government’s efforts to increase public sector transparency and accountability.The grant will leverage an additional US$25 million from the donor-supported Haiti Reconstruction Fund (HRF), which is managed by the bank.“These funds will help us to close the gap and address important needs in terms of the efficient and transparent management of public resources,†Haiti’s finance minister, Ronald Baudin said.The new funding is part of the bank’s commitment to support Haiti’s recovery in the wake of the earthquake that killed more than 230,000 people and caused widespread destruction mainly in the capital Port-au-Prince.The Emergency Development Policy Grant supports fiscal transparency in the electricity sector, strengthens budget controls and public procurement and supports anticorruption measures by increasing transparency in payments to independent power producers; reinstate budget controls of external and internal audits at the Ministry of Finance enforcing the Law on Declaration of Assets among members of government to reduce corruption; and strengthening procurement regulation to ensure sound implementation of the new procurement law.