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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.
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 ...
2000. September 19 to 28. Prague, Czech Republic. 2001. November 17 to 18. World Bank Group/International Monetary Fund Headquarters, Washington, D.C., United States. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (meetings of the International Monetary and Financial Committee and the Development Committee) 2002. September 29.
Washington A16, 2000 was a series of protests in Washington, D.C. against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, that occurred in April 2000. [1] [2] The annual IMF and World Bank meetings were the scene for follow-on protests of the 1999 WTO protests. In April 2000, between 10,000 and 15,000 [3] protesters demonstrated at the IMF ...
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes ( ICSID) is an international arbitration institution established in 1966 for legal dispute resolution and conciliation between international investors and States. ICSID is part of and funded by the World Bank Group, headquartered in Washington, D.C., in the United States.
The International Finance Corporation ( IFC) is an international financial institution that offers investment, advisory, and asset-management services to encourage private-sector development in less developed countries. The IFC is a member of the World Bank Group and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. in the United States.
The Washington Consensus is a set of ten economic policy prescriptions considered to constitute the "standard" reform package promoted for crisis-wracked developing countries by Washington, D.C. -based institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and United States Department of the Treasury. [ 1]
David Robert Malpass (born March 8, 1956 [ 1]) is an American economic analyst and former government official who served as President of the World Bank Group from 2019 to 2023. Malpass previously served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs under Donald Trump, Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary under Ronald Reagan, and ...