World Bank approves more than $4 bln for Argentina

BUENOS AIRES, June 9 | Tue Jun 9, 2009 1:25pm EDT

BUENOS AIRES, June 9 (Reuters) - The World Bank approved on Tuesday more than $4 billion in loans to Argentina, a bank spokeswoman in Buenos Aires told Reuters.

The bank's board approved $3.3 billion in loans for Argentina until 2012, including a first credit worth $450 million for social programs.

It also approved a separate $840 million loan to help clean up the polluted Matanza and Riachuelo river basin, she said. (Reporting by Hilary Burke)

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