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The World Bank

The World Bank Group has set two goals for the world to achieve by 2030:

  • End extreme poverty by decreasing the percentage of people living on less than $1.90 a day to no more than 3%
  • Promote shared prosperity by fostering the income growth of the bottom 40% for every country

The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. We are not a bank in the ordinary sense but a unique partnership to reduce poverty and support development. The World Bank Group comprises five institutions managed by their member countries.

Established in 1944, the World Bank Group is headquartered in Washington, D.C. We have more than 10,000 employees in more than 120 offices worldwide.

Financial Products and Services

We provide low-interest loans, zero to low-interest credits, and grants to developing countries. These support a wide array of investments in such areas as education, health, public administration, infrastructure, financial and private sector development, agriculture, and environmental and natural resource management. Some of our projects are cofinanced with governments, other multilateral institutions, commercial banks, export credit agencies, and private sector investors.

We also provide or facilitate financing through trust fund partnerships with bilateral and multilateral donors. Many partners have asked the Bank to help manage initiatives that address needs across a wide range of sectors and developing regions.

Innovative Knowledge Sharing

We offer support to developing countries through policy advice, research and analysis, and technical assistance. Our analytical work often underpins World Bank financing and helps inform developing countries’ own investments. In addition, we support capacity development in the countries we serve. We also sponsor, host, or participate in many conferences and forums on issues of development, often in collaboration with partners.

To ensure that countries can access the best global expertise and help generate cutting-edge knowledge, the Bank is constantly seeking to improve the way it shares its knowledge and engages with clients and the public at large. Key priorities include:

  • Results: We continue to sharpen our focus on helping developing countries deliver measurable results.
  • Reform: We are working to improve every aspect of our work: how projects are designed, how information is made available (Access to Information), and how to bring our operations closer to client governments and communities.
  • Open Development: We offer a growing range of free, easy-to-access tools, research and knowledge to help people address the world’s development challenges. For example, the Open Data website offers free access to comprehensive, downloadable indicators about development in countries around the globe. We have also made World Bank Live—live discussions open to participants worldwide—a key part of our Spring and Annual Meetings with the International Monetary Fund.

www.worldbank.org/


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  • G20 Framework For Repurposing Agricultural Policy Support To Meet Global Climate And Food Security Goals
    • Martin Piñeiro (Consejo Argentino para las Relaciones Internacionales (CARI))
    • Rob Vos (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
    • Valeria Piñeiro (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
    • Aditya Alta (Center for Indonesian Policy Studies (CIPS))
    • Helen Ding (World ResourcesInstitute (WRI) & Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU))
    • Pablo Elverdin (Grupo de Paises Productores del Sur (GPS))
    • Azizah Fauzi (Center for Indonesian Policy Studies (CIPS))
    • Madhur Gautam (The World Bank)
    • Joseph Glauber (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
    • Nelson Illescas (Instituto para las Negociaciones Agricolas Internacionales (INAI)
    • David Laborde (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
    • Will Martin (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
    • Danielle Resnick (Brookings Institiution)
    • Sitta Rosdaniah (Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises, Rep. of Indonesia)
    • Caterina Ruggeri (SYSTEMIQ)
    • Indra Setiawan (Center for Indonesian Policy Studies (CIPS))
    • Augustin Tejeda Rodriguez (Bolsa de Cereales)
    • Marco V. Sanchez (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO))
  • A Global Perspective On How To Improve Agrifood System Resilience From Farm To Fork
    • Maximo Torero (The World Bank)
    • Andrea Cattaneo (FAO)
    • Ahmad Sadiddin (FAO)
    • Sara Vaz (FAO)
  • Repurposing agricultural policy support for climate change mitigation and adaptation
    • Rob Vos (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
    • Valeria Piñeiro (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
    • Madhur Gautam (The World Bank)
    • David Laborde Debucquet (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
    • Will Martin (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
  • Services Trade for Sustainable, Balanced, and Inclusive Growth
    • Carlos Primo Braga (Evian Group, IMD)
    • Johannes Schwarzer (Council on Economic Policies)
    • Jane Drake-Brockman (Institute for International Trade, University of Adelaide)
    • Bernard Hoekman (European University Institute)
    • J. Bradford Jensen (The Peterson Institute for International Economics)
    • Patrick Low (Asia Global Institute)
    • Hamid Mamdouh (King & Spalding)
    • Pierre Sauvé (The World Bank)
    • Sherry Stephenson (Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC))
  • Sustainable Prevention of Food Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa
    • Maximo Torero (The World Bank)
    • Rob Vos (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
    • Ousmane Badiane (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
    • Julia Collins (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
    • Yasuo Fujita (Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA))
    • David Laborde Debucquet (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
    • Will Martin (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
    • Futoshi Yamauchi (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
  • Clarifying the problem of food loss and waste to improve food and nutrition security
    • Luciana Delgado (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
    • Maximo Torero (The World Bank)
    • Monica Schuster (Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp)
  • T20 Co-Chair Brief
    Economic Empowerment of Rural Women
    • Boris Branisa (Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD))
    • Carolyn Currie (Women’s Enterprise Scotland)
    • Graciela Hijar (Women’s Economic Imperative)
    • Helen Walbey
    • Lynne Cadenhead (Women’s Enterprise Scotland)
    • Mariela Magnelli (Centro de Implementacion de Politicas Publicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento (CIPPEC))
    • Melissa Williams (The World Bank)
    • Narnia Bohler-Muller (Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC))
    • Sandhya S. Iyer (Tata Institute of Social Sciences)
    • Margo Thomas (Women’s Economic Imperative)
  • Promoting competition in the fertilizer industry and efficiency in the fertilizer use to improve land productivity and sustainability
    • Manuel Hernandez (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
    • Maximo Torero (The World Bank)

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  • Maximo Torero
  • Melissa Williams
  • Pierre Sauvé

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