World Bank

noun

an international bank established in 1944 to help member nations reconstruct and develop, especially by guaranteeing loans: a specialized agency of the United Nations.

World Bank

an international cooperative organization established in 1945 under the Bretton Woods Agreement to assist economic development, esp of backward nations, by the advance of loans guaranteed by member governments Officially calledInternational Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Humanitarian Paul Farmer and World Bank Leader Jim Yong Kim captured the problem in a Washington Post article last week.

President of The World Bank Jim Yong Kim backed this up at a meeting of the European Union in Paris Friday.

This time last year she dropped in at the White House during a trip to Washington to address the World Bank.

The World Bank announced today a doubling of their money for Ebola.

At the conclusion of the recent BRICS summit, the World Bank promised India $15 billion to $18 billion to aid development.

They meet annually (in the autumn) and coordinate their meeting with that of the World Bank.

The World Bank is giving this problem top priority, as are some other donor countries.

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