The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD, 189 members in 2017), which provides loans ... As Third World Debt gets worse, the World Bank (along with the IMF) tends to adopt a ...

The United States is the only government from the 189 World Bank countries with ... it is the global body’s main founding member. World Bank and IMF officials have been meeting the US capital ...

As global finance leaders gather in Washington next week for IMF and World Bank annual meetings ... and then work with our members to bring forward more rational decision-making," she said.