World Bank

The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programs. It comprises two institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), and the International Development Association (IDA). The World Bank is a component of the World Bank Group, which is part of the United Nations system.

The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty. However, according to its Articles of Agreement, all its decisions must be guided by a commitment to the promotion of foreign investment and international trade and to the facilitation of Capital investment.

World Bank Group

The World Bank is not to be confused with the World Bank Group, an extended family of five international organizations:

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)

International Development Association (IDA)

International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)

International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)

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House panel report slams UK's policy towards India

The Times of India 25 Jun 2019

Now, with India about to overtake the UK's economy, Britain should support India's efforts to gain greater status within multilateral bodies, such as a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, a greater voice in the World Bank and International Monetary Fund and a leadership role in the Commonwealth, it added....

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Imran forms body to ease business registration

Dawn 25 Jun 2019

ISLAMABAD. Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday approved the constitution of a steering committee on Pakistan Regulatory Modernisation Initiative (PRMI) to help devise a regulatory framework for simplifying the process of business registration ... Among 190 economies, Pakistan ranks at 136, according to the World Bank report on ease of doing business ... ....

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PM Imran forms body to ease business registration

Dawn 25 Jun 2019

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Facebook’s Libra finds itself in the crosshairs of the Central Bank of Central Banks

AMB Crypto 24 Jun 2019

Regulation will provide a balance between the growth of large technology companies that are centralizing currency on a digital platform and with banks, which continue to place a choke-hold on the decentralized currency world. The report suggested that this regulation will ensure ......

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UBS: World economy ‘one step away from global recession'

Yahoo Daily News 24 Jun 2019

The world economy is on the leading edge of a recession, UBS said on Monday, which could prompt all major central banks to ease monetary policy in response ... “If we are right on the growth impact, all major central banks would ease,” the bank’s analysts wrote in their report, given the fragile state of the world’s economy....

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MYbank Works With Financial Institution Partners to Serve Over 15 Million SMEs

The Saratogian 24 Jun 2019

Toward Universal Financial Inclusion in China, a joint report published by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) and the World Bank in 2018, found that only 14% of China’s small businesses have access to loans or line of credit, compared to an average of 27% of small businesses across all G20 countries ... BANKING PROFESSIONAL SERVICES....

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Nigeria frets about smuggling, but its trade policy fuels it

Business Day Online 24 Jun 2019

Godwin Emefiele, Nigeria’s central bank governor, is very unhappy and angry ... Does the central bank know the smugglers? Well, Emefiele said “We have their names” ... For instance, a World Bank report notes that, “The total amount of potential smuggling from Benin is estimated at close to $5bn, nearly 10% of Nigeria’s official imports”, adding....

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Where are ‘thoughtful doers’ in our nation?

Business Day Online 24 Jun 2019

I was recently perusing an edition of the World Bank Global Forum compendium on ... A world bank Report on development indicates that between 2003 and 2012, African researchers have doubled their production of research in science, technology, engineering and mathematics based fields....

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Govt-Turns-To-Warehousing-To-Reduce-Post-Harvest-Losses

Peace FM Online 24 Jun 2019

A World Bank report estimates that the value of PHL in SSA could reach nearly US$4 billion a year out of an estimated annual value of grain production of US$27 billion....

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We Have to Finance a Global Green New Deal — or Face the Consequences

The Intercept 24 Jun 2019

The United States will be safer and better off if climate disasters don’t go unmitigated in other parts of the world ... Another 2015 report, produced by the World Bank and consultancy firm Ecofys, said financial transfers “could reach up to US$100–400 billion annually by 2030, possibly increasing to over by 2050.” A 2011 U.N ... Original reporting....

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How Outline India is bringing NGOs and funders on the same platform through Track Your Metrics

Your Story 24 Jun 2019

... small not-for-profits spread out across India and the developing world ... These are assessment/ audit tools that already exist in the ecosystem (works of governments, the UN, World Bank and other leaders), but they are distributed across multiple websites or hidden away in reports....

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Facebook's breaking the bank

Irish Independent 23 Jun 2019

0 Comments Facebook's breaking the bank ... https.//www.independent.ie/business/technology/facebooks-breaking-the-bank-38243667.html ... This number of 1.7 billion comes from the World Bank's Global Findex database, published by it in 2017 ... It is WhatsApp's biggest market and it leads the world in remittances according to the World Bank....

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Project to improve reading in Afram Plains launched

Ghana Business News 23 Jun 2019

The Integrated Programmes Director of World Vision International Ghana, Mr ... Mohammed Mumuni said according to a World Bank report,125 million children around the world are not acquiring functional literacy or numeracy, even after spending at least four years in school....