The World Bank and the IMF are 80 years old. 80 years of financial neo-colonialism and the imposition of austerity policies ...

By unifying many back-office functions—budget, corporate procurement ... have stretched our existing balance sheet by securing additional lending capacity at IBRD of $150 billion over the next 10 ...

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD, 189 members in 2017), which ... or ‘businesslike’ and result in increased production. The main function of foreign capital inflow is to ...

As part of its lending, borrowing, and investment activities, IBRD is exposed to market, counterparty, country credit, and operational risks. The World Bank Group’s Chief Risk Officer leads the risk ...

The leading nations of the world at the time (except the then Soviet Russia by her choice) came together at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in 1944 to form the International Bank For Reconstruction And ...

In a transforming global order, major countries' roles evolve to reflect the times. Being an enabler rather than an enforcer ...

Despite his perceived hostility to international organizations, Trump oversaw a capital increase for the World Bank’s International Bank for Reconstruction and Development when he was in the ...

The League was disbanded formally on April 19, 1946, with its powers and functions transferred ... In parallel, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development was created.

At the IBRD this is 93% of total capital ... MDBs cannot call callable capital until the end [of their ability to function], when they need it to repay bondholders. At that point, we would ...

As climate change drives a growing cascade of extreme weather events, from hurricanes and floods to heat waves, droughts, and ...

the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the Multilateral Investment ...

With its high leverage, this new instrument allows us shareholders to efficiently boost IBRD’s financing capacity. Our investment is a testimony to Sweden’s support for the impressive job that the ...