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The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. [5] The World Bank is the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IDA ...
The International Development Association (IDA) (French: Association internationale de développement) is a development finance institution which offers concessional loans and grants to the world's poorest developing countries. The IDA is a member of the World Bank Group and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. in the United States.
World Bank Group. The World Bank Group ( WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries. It is the largest and best-known development bank in the world and an observer at the United Nations Development Group. [7] The bank is headquartered in Washington, D.C., in the United States.
Michael Klein is an author, [1] and former World Bank official. [2] Klein has published and co-authored several policy papers on the emerging markets and the effectiveness of foreign aid . He has regularly argued for enabling the private sector to bring about economic development rather than direct aid to the poorest nations.
Incumbent. Ajay Banga. since June 2, 2023. Term length. Five years, renewable. Website. president .worldbankgroup .org. The president of the World Bank Group is the head of World Bank Group. The president is responsible for chairing the meetings of the boards of directors and for overall management of the World Bank Group.
James Wolfensohn. Sir James David Wolfensohn KBE, AO (1 December 1933 – 25 November 2020) was an Australian-American lawyer, investment banker, and economist who served as the ninth president of the World Bank Group (1995–2005). During his tenure at the World Bank, he is credited with the focus on poverty alleviation and a rethink on ...
Washington, D.C., U.S. Resting place. Locust Valley Cemetery, Locust Valley, New York, U.S. Spouse. Patsy Pulitzer. Education. Harvard University (BA) Lewis Thompson Preston (August 5, 1926 – May 4, 1995) was an American banker. He was President of the World Bank from September 1991 until his death in May 1995.
The chief economist of the World Bank (full title: Senior Vice President for Development Economics and Chief Economist of the World Bank Group) is the senior economist at the World Bank Group, tasked with providing intellectual leadership and direction to the bank's overall international development strategy and economic research agenda, at global, regional and country levels.
Liechtenstein. Monaco. North Korea. Taiwan is the largest economy outside the World Bank, followed by Hong Kong and Macau. The two observer states at the UN, the Vatican City and State of Palestine, are also not members of the World Bank. Kosovo is not a member of the UN, but is a member of the International Monetary Fund [1] and the World Bank ...
Nigeria and the World Bank. The World Bank is an institution that was established in 1944 and since 1958 has provided Nigeria with low interest rate loans and grants through the International Development Association (IDA) and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). [1] As of 2018, it consists of 189 member countries.