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

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Official name International Bank for Reconstruction and Development .

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How to use World Bank in a sentence

The latest available World Bank figures show that the country has less than one doctor per 1,000 people and only one hospital bed for every 3,000.
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In 2006, The Stern Review, a groundbreaking report from a group headed by former World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern, found that climate change could drive a 20% decline in global GDP.
The Pandemic Remade Every Corner of Society. Now It's the Climate's Turn|Justin Worland|April 15, 2021|Time
Duke Global Health Innovation Center collated purchase data from countries in each World Bank income grouping, though not all countries in each income grouping were included in the analysis.
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He’s a former World Bank economist who became a prolific journalist and the author of one of Steve Levitt’s favorite books, The Undercover Economist.
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So I think what I was not fully aware of was, while the World Bank environment was inclusive, how hard it was.
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The world that Black Dynamite lives in is not the most PC place to be in.
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Have a look at this telling research from Pew on blasphemy and apostasy laws around the world.
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Allegations of transphobia are not new in the world of gay online dating.
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People watch night soaps because the genre allows them to believe in a world where people just react off their baser instincts.
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Editorial and political cartoon pages from throughout the world almost unanimously came to the same conclusion.
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In sorting notes it is necessary to be able readily to distinguish between notes of this bank and notes of other reserve banks.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
Descending the Alps to the east or south into Piedmont, a new world lies around and before you.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
There seems something in that also which I could spare only very reluctantly from a new Bible in the world.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
That it is a reasonable and proper thing to ask our statesmen and politicians: what is going to happen to the world?
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

British Dictionary definitions for World Bank

World Bank

noun

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 governmentsOfficially called: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

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