World Bank

The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programs. It comprises two institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), and the International Development Association (IDA). The World Bank is a component of the World Bank Group, which is part of the United Nations system.

The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty. However, according to its Articles of Agreement, all its decisions must be guided by a commitment to the promotion of foreign investment and international trade and to the facilitation of Capital investment.

World Bank Group

The World Bank is not to be confused with the World Bank Group, an extended family of five international organizations:

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)

International Development Association (IDA)

International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)

International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)

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Nine more expressway contractors suspected of construction violations

The Saigon Times 04 Jul 2020

They include Nguyen Manh Cuong, former deputy director of the expressway’s construction package No ... 7 ... The expressway was developed by the State-owned VEC in five years at a total cost of VND34.5 trillion (US$1.7 billion), funded by government bond sales and loans from the World Bank and the Japan International Cooperation Agency ... ....

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China's bond market balance ranks second in world

China Daily 03 Jul 2020

China's bond market balance is 108 trillion yuan ($15.29 trillion), ranking second in the world, the People's Bank of China said via its official Wechat account on Friday ... world and holding about 2.6 trillion yuan in RMB bonds with an increase of 40 percent each year since 2017....

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Bond Markets Show a Japanese Future for U.S. Banks

Wall Street Journal 03 Jul 2020

The gap between yields on long-dated government bonds in the rest of the developed world and yields on ......

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T. Rowe Price 2020 Midyear Market Outlook: Path Ahead For Financial Markets Depends On How ...

Herald Mail 23 Jun 2020

Government bond yields around the world rallied strongly as global central banks and fiscal authorities rushed to inject an historic amount of liquidity into the economy amid the panic, and as investors took flight to safe haven assets.� The rally drove 10-year government bond ......

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Pandemic propels old-school bond traders towards an electronic future

The Jakarta Post 22 Jun 2020

For the banks who provide dealer and execution services, though, the electronic shift may be eating into fixed-income revenues; during the March quarter, earnings from bond trading at the world’s biggest 12 banks remained below levels seen in 2014, research firm Coalition calculates....

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Ethical investments beat traditional funds during pandemic

Irish Independent 22 Jun 2020

85pc outperformed their broad market counterparts," said the body which represents the world's largest banks and funds. In bond markets, 70pc of ESG indices have outperformed their more traditional counterparts this year, it said ... The State started issuing green bonds to fund projects with environmental benefits in 2018....

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China sees sustained recovery in spite of global economic woes: foreign media

China Daily 19 Jun 2020

The World Bank, on the ... "Key fiscal policy measures in China included emergency health spending, tax breaks, direct transfers to vulnerable households, and deferrals and special local government bond issuance to boost investment, totaling 5.4 percent of GDP," said the World Bank....

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The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families

GlobalResearch 19 Jun 2020

Instead the Eight Families’ power was exacerbated, with the Bretton Woods creation of the IMF and the World Bank ... BIS holds at least 10% of monetary reserves for at least 80 of the world’s central banks, the IMF and other multilateral institutions ... In 1944 the first World Bank bonds were floated by Morgan Stanley and First Boston....

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Thailand Government Issues Blockchain-Powered Savings Bonds

XBT.MONEY 18 Jun 2020

The Public Debt Management Office (PDMO), under Thailand’s Ministry of Finance, will be utilizing Krung Thai Bank’s (KTB) blockchain platform to sell government bonds to the general public ... The World Bank also instructed the Commonwealth Bank of Australia to offer bonds built on the blockchain....

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Bank of England set to rebuild stimulus war-chest

Canada Dot Com 18 Jun 2020

That leaves bond-buying as the central bank’s most powerful option to help steer the world’s fifth-biggest economy away from its record 25% slump in March and April ... Other central banks around the world have ramped up their bond-buying programs to fight the coronavirus crisis....

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Sterling dips as eyes turn to Bank of England meeting

Canada Dot Com 18 Jun 2020

... billion) in its bond-buying program ... That leaves bond-buying as the central bank’s most powerful option to help the world’s fifth-biggest economy recover from its record 25% slump in March and April ... ING Bank and Nomura for instance, expect an increase of 150 billion....

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EDITORIAL: Zero room for error in Tito’s new budget

Business Day 18 Jun 2020

The Unemployment Insurance Fund and external sources will be tapped, SA plans to borrow $4.2bn from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), $1bn from the New Development Bank and $55m from the World Bank, still leaving markets to pick up a large amount of government bonds ... They are deeply rooted in the ANC’s political choices ... ....

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OPINION: Investors buoyed by extra US stimulus to support recovery

Independent online (SA) 17 Jun 2020

This come as stock markets around the world further rallied on Tuesday after the U.S ... Global stocks have been buoyed by the news from the Fed - the world’s de facto central bank – to buy individual corporate bonds in addition to the exchange-traded funds it is already purchasing, to support the world’s largest economy....