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单词 World Bank
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World Bank

Geography
  • 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.


Economics
  • See International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.


World History
  • An international financial organization. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) was set up by the United Nations in 1945 to promote the economic development of member nations by facilitating the investment of capital for productive purposes, encouraging private foreign investment, and if necessary lending money from its own funds. It was complemented in 1960 by the establishment of the International Development Association (IDA) to make loans and grants to the world’s poorest countries. The IBRD and the IDA have the same staff and headquarters (in Washington, DC); together they are known as the ‘World Bank’. The World Bank Group consists of the IBRD, the IDA, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).


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