The World Bank is strengthening its procurement requirements to help address the jobs challenge in developing countries by requiring companies working on World Bank-funded projects to include local ...

A Brief History of the World Bank. In 1944, Allied nations convened in what became the Bretton Woods conference to establish—officially a year later—the International Bank for Reconstruction ...

The World Bank will unveil plans to tackle job creation, gender disparities, and food security at next week's gathering of the world's finance ministers and central bankers in Washington, its ...

In 1944, the new economic order began with a bank and a fund: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which became the World Bank, and the IMF. Today, the BRICS are taking the ...

The World Bank, flagship of the ... The end of postwar reconstruction and the realization that the poorest nations needed softer terms for loans led to the creation of the IDA in 1960 (PDF). The ...

The World Bank Group supports countries through the entire life cycle of job creation. Our ultimate goal is to help countries build dynamic private sectors that convert growth into local jobs — not by ...