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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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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.
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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.
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Descending the Alps to the east or south into Piedmont, a new world lies around and before you.
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All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.
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There seems something in that also which I could spare only very reluctantly from a new Bible in the world.
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That it is a reasonable and proper thing to ask our statesmen and politicians: what is going to happen to the world?
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World Bank

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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

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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