Directors of both the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association … fiscal year: Strategic Framework, the Bank's Role in Poverty Reduction; Country Programs; Global Programs and Partnerships …

The World Bank group, among the world's largest development institutions, is a major source of financial and technical … assistance to developing countries around the world. In fiscal 2009, the World Bank group sponsored 767 projects with a total … increase over the previous fiscal year and a record high for the Bank group. The Bank group's investment projects are aimed …

bank digital currency (CBDC) could well incorporate options and features specifically designed to execute cross … organized as follows. Section II specifically discusses the models developed jointly by the Bank of Canada, Bank of England, and …

and the wider economy. Central banks, too, are considering issuing their own digital currencies. A central bank digital … currency (CBDC) is a central bank liability that is digitally created and recorded on centralized or decentralized ledgers …, denominated in an existing unit of account, and convertible in physical cash, commercial bank money and other forms of money on …

payments system (NPS) in virtually every country in the world. Recently, the issuance of central bank digital currency (CBDC …

This note examines the observance by the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus (NBRB) of the good practices on … formal principle-by-principle assessment. It was conducted as part of the joint IMF-World Bank Financial Sector Assessment … responsibilities of the NBRB, and the broad modalities of accountability and public dissemination of the information, are defined in …

the Bank's work: country ownership, long-term integrated approach, partnership, and results focus. This vision was put … of them in Africa. d) The Bank and the International Monetary Fund began to help countries prepare Poverty Reduction … Strategies, which are becoming the basis for debt relief and concessional lending by the Bank, the Fund, and other development …

, and economic dimensions of poverty; presents regional analyses of Bank operations; and provides organizational information … both the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA …). The first of two volumes discusses the World Bank's goals and strategies; overviews Bank activities in fiscal year 2002 …

This Annual Report covers the period from July 1, 2000, to June 30, 2001, and details the World Bank strategy for … meeting the poverty challenge. After the Introduction, Chapter 1 provides an overview of Bank activities in 2001 that focused … Compact, the use of the World Bank Institute to empower through knowledge and setting out a strategic framework for future …