World Bank World Bank The IMF and World Bank meet each autumn in what is officially known as the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group and each spring in the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group. ...more on Wikipedia about "Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group"
Betty Oyella Bigombe is a former Uganda government minister and consultant to the World Bank. She is an ethnic Acholi and has been involved in peace negotiations to end the insurgency of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) of Uganda since 1994. As of 2005 she was acting as chief mediator between the LRA and government of Uganda. She has a masters degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. As well as English and Acholi, she speaks Kiswahili and Japanese. ...more on Wikipedia about "Betty Oyella Bigombe"
The Bretton Woods institutions is an informal name for the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), founded in July 1944 at a conference of delegates from 44 countries in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire (USA). ...more on Wikipedia about "Bretton Woods Institutions"
The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) was created by the World Bank on May 19, 1971, with the FAO, IFAD and UNDP as co-sponsors. ...more on Wikipedia about "Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research"
Glenn Hubbard is currently Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. ...more on Wikipedia about "Glenn Hubbard (economics)"
The International Development Association (IDA) was created on September 24, 1960, is a UN specialized agency. It is responsible for providing long-term interest-free loans to the poorest of developing countries on terms more lenient than those of the World Bank proper, and forms part of the World Bank Group based in Washington, D.C.. ...more on Wikipedia about "International Development Association"
(International Finance Corporation) :For other uses of IFC, see IFC (disambiguation). ...more on Wikipedia about "International Finance Corporation"
Life and Debt is a 2001 documentary film directed by Stephanie Black. It examines the economic and social situation in Jamaica, and specifically the impact thereon of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank's globalization policies. Its starting point is the award-winning non-fiction text A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid. ...more on Wikipedia about "Life and Debt"
The Operations Evaluation Department (OED) is an independent unit within the World Bank; it reports directly to the Bank's Board of Executive Directors. The unit was recently renamed the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), to reflect its new expanded mandate and pervue in evaluating activities of The World Bank Group (consisting of the World Bank, IFC, and MIGA). OED assesses what works, and what does not; how a borrower plans to run and maintain a project; and the lasting contribution of the Bank to a country's overall development. The goals of evaluation are to learn from experience, to provide an objective basis for assessing the results of the Bank's work, and to provide accountability in the achievement of its objectives. It also improves Bank work by identifying and disseminating the lessons learned from experience and by framing recommendations drawn from evaluation findings. ...more on Wikipedia about "Operations Evaluation Department"
The Pearson Commission on International Development investigated the effectiveness of the World Bank's development assistance in the 20 years to 1968 and made recommendations for future operation of the organization. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pearson Commission on International Development"
The United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, commonly known as Bretton Woods conference, was a gathering of 730 delegates from all 45 Allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel, situated in the resort town of Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. The conference was held from 1 July to 22 July, 1944, when the Agreements were signed to set up the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Monetary Fund, to regulate the international monetary and financial order after World War II. ...more on Wikipedia about "United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference"
The World Bank Group is a group of five international organizations responsible for providing finance to countries for purposes of development and poverty reduction, and for encouraging and safeguarding international investment. The group and its affiliates are headquartered in Washington, D.C. ...more on Wikipedia about "World Bank Group"
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