NOUN
- a United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments
How To Use World Bank In A Sentence
- According to the same source, the Bujagali dam at the outlet of Lake Victoria in Jinja, Uganda, is due to go ahead within the next few weeks with £66m of funding from the World Bank.
- Same as the World Bank, International Financial Corporation is reluctant to admit lending default or investment failure.
- The Orissa will get a fund of Rs 140 crore from the World Bank under the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) project. Orissa to get Rs 140 crore under Integrated Coastal Zone Management project
- The investigators still cite the "cancer of corruption" denounced by James Wolfensohn, an ex-president of the World Bank, in 1996.
- And a very big part of their struggle is with the structure of power, and especially wealth, among Muslims because that is largely based on practices that are at best murkily understood even by professionals, and which are easily attacked by propagandists, e.g,, the World Bank causes poverty. Matthew Yglesias » The Politics of Terror
- The World Bank's damage assessment in Sri Lanka found about 90,000 homes fully or partially destroyed by last December's tsunami.
- This was some achievement, since my office was on the fifth floor of the World Bank's headquarters.
- They could be private (small or middle-sized banks, less well informed than the bigger ones or misinformed by them) or public (the World Bank, the IMF, public export credit agencies, governments …). Matthew Yglesias » The Life of Citi
- In 1990 the World Bank estimated that half the population was illiterate (could not read or write).
- Funding from the World Bank lends credibility to the project.
