The International Fund for Reconstruction and Development, popularly known as the World Bank, and now generally concerned with aid to the developing world. The Bank acquires its funds partly through government subscription, but mainly through borrowing, and voting power is proportional to capital subscription, so the bank is effectively controlled by the rich countries. It has made loans of over $US 200 billion. Try Bunnell (2007) Pol. Geog. 26, 5 on the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Singapore, Schec (in D. Moore, ed. 2007), on the World Bank and gender justice, Coleman’s (2002, Pol. Geo. 21, 4) charge that, with reference to the debt crisis, and structural adjustment, the Bank ‘struggles to explain contemporary developments in the geography of money’, and Shriar (2005) J. Lat. American Geog. 42 on the impact on Jamaica of structural adjustment, trade liberalization, and economic globalization.
http://wber.oxfordjournals.org/ The World Bank Economic Review and the PovertyNet Newsletters.