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The IBRD offers financial products and policy advice to countries aiming to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development. The International Bank of Reconstruction and Development is a ...
70 years ago, on July 15, 1947, IBRD issued its first bond. Since then, the World Bank's history of innovation demonstrates the evolution of capital markets as a force for good. On the anniversary of ...
WASHINGTON, April 21, 2018 — During the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings in Washington, DC, on April 20, Werner Hoyer, President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), acting on behalf of the Global ...
This paper focuses primarily on a potential capital increase for the IBRD because most of the attention will be on the IBRD. If the capital increase is approved, it would represent an almost immediate ...
As of October 14, 2022, overdue payments owed by the Republic of Belarus to IBRD amounted to $68.43 mln equivalent, the organization said, adding that the principal amount outstanding on IBRD ...
This action has been taken in accordance with the World Bank’s established procedure of placing all IBRD loans to, or guaranteed by, a country in non-performing status if payment on any loan is ...
A default by Ukraine on its international development loans would likely cost two of the world's top multilateral lenders, the EBRD and IBRD, their prized triple-A credit ratings, Fitch has warned.