• BUILDING OF WORLD
BANK
The w o r l d b a n k i s a n
internationally
s u p p o r t e d b a n k that
provides financial
a n d Te c h n i c a l
a s s i s t a n c e to
developing countries
f o r development
p r o g r a m s (e . g.
bridges, roads,
s c h o o l s ) w i t h the s t a t e d
g o a l of reducing
p o v e r t y.
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:- Robert B. Zoellick
President
Membership :- 185 countries
:- IFC, MIGA, ICSID
Affiliates
Headquarter :- Washington, DC
more
and than 100 country
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Staff
:- about 10000 all
over the:-world
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1,1944
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The world bank is one of the two Bretton
Woods Institutions which were created in
1944 to rebuild a wartorn europe after
World War II . Later ,largely due to the
contributions of the Marshall Plan ,the
World Bank was forced to find a new area
in which to focus its efforts.
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Fund generation
Loans
Grants
Analytic & Advisory
Service
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• Capacity building
• IBRD lending to developing
countries is financed by selling
AAA-rated bonds.
• IDA is the world’s largest source of
interest free loans and grant assistance
to the poorest countries.
• Relieve the debt burden of heavily
indebted poor countries
• Improve sanitation and water supplies
• Support vaccination and
immunisation programs to reduce
the incidence of communicable
diseases like malaria
• Combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic
• Support civil society organisations
• Create initiatives to cut the
• Poverty Assessments
• Public Expenditure Reviews
• Country Economic
Memoranda
• Social and Structural
Reviews
• Sector Reports
• Topics in Development
• Advisory Services and Ask Us
• Global Development Learning Network
• World Bank Institutes Global and
Regional Programs
• B-SPAN
• Agriculture and
Rural
Development
• Information,
computing and
telecommunication
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Economic policy
Education
Energy
Environment
Financial sector
Health, nutrition
and population
industry
Law and justice
Private sector
Social protection
Trade
Water resources
Water supply
and sanitation
India is home to over one-quarter of the
world’s poor, and the World Bank
Group is focused on sharing best
practices as well as financing for
development as part of its mission ton
help reduce global poverty.
• It was started to reduce poverty but it
support United States’ business interests.
• It is deeply implicated in contemporary
modes of donor and NGO driven
imperialism.
• The President of the Bank is always a
citizen of the United States.
• Lack transparency to external publics.
• It is an instrument for the promotion of
U.S. or Western interests.
• The decision-making
structure is undemocratic.
• It has consistently pushed a “neoliberal” agenda.
5 PRIORITIES OF WORLD
BANK
• World bank provides the largest
external funds for education.
• It is a big support in reducing poverty.
• It provides fund for biodiversity projects.
• it helps to bring clean water, electricity,
and transport to poor people.
• It helps in controlling emerging conflicts.