World Bank
The World Bank is an international organization that provides assistance to developing countries to reduce poverty and improve living standards through sustainable growth and investment in people.
Primary web addresses
http://www.worldbank.org
Main Address
1818 H St. NW
Washington DC 20433
Washington DC 20433
Country
United States
Main Telephone
(1) 202-473-2780
Joined OneWorld
06.11.1998
Features
03.04.2008
Industrialised countries should provide immediate support to help the world’s poor facing skyrocketing food prices, World Bank president Robert B. Zoellick said today.
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26.11.2007
Women make up almost half the migrant population in the world, their numbers are increasing and the trend is having a major impact on development, says a new World Bank report.
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19.10.2007
The goal of halving extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 will not be reached unless neglect and underinvestment in the agricultural and rural sectors over the past 20 years is reversed, says the World Bank's latest World Development Report.
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