The relevance of the Bank's mandate is as real as it was in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, in fact, more so.

It is ... important that timely action be taken to safeguard the financial capacities of both IBRD and IFC in order to sustain scaled up assistance to client countries.

In the post-crisis phase, we will need a bigger World Bank, not a smaller one. We will need an institution capable of working together also with stronger regional development banks.

The World Bank has been playing a critical role in response to the food, fuel and financial and economic crisis and we need it to be empowered to continue playing its important role.

A well-capitalized and strong World Bank is our best assurance that our efforts to diversify our economy and regain solid and sustained growth will succeed.

A World Bank capital increase has now become vital to sustain future lending and avoid funding cutbacks to below crisis levels.

With the world economy navigating through unchartered waters, we deem it should be our common goal to ensure the World Bank Group has the resources to meet development aspirations to emerging economies.

The World Bank Group has been a key partner in helping Ghana and other countries on the African Continent navigate through the current financial crisis.

We want the Bank to continue to be a tool for the development and therefore we add our voice supporting a capital increase so that the Bank can provide these services in a sustainable fashion.

Time and again, the world has called on the Bank — with its finance, its knowledge, its reach and its capacity to offer necessary advice — to provide leadership.

The World Bank should be the leader in the global fight against poverty recognized and supported as the primary source of expertise, finance and institutional support for developing countries.

When years from now, the story is told about how Liberia overcame the immense challenges it faced, a golden page will be dedicated to the role of the World Bank.