As a global development leader, the World Bank is promoting innovative, effective, and sustainable ways to work toward our goals of ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity.
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Through work that spans regions and sectors, we are helping countries find sustainable solutions to their development challenges in an increasingly complex and interconnected world.
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Combining global and country knowledge, our research programs generate wide-ranging insights for solving development challenges in client countries.
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The World Bank Group works with a vast array of partners, both traditional and nontraditional, formal and informal, from around the world to help meet our twin goals.
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Our comparative advantage comes from the powerful combination of country depth and global breadth, public and private sector instruments and relationships, multisectoral knowledge, and the ability to mobilize and leverage financing to support countries’ development priorities.
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Review and download additional information about the World Bank and its lending and operations in fiscal year 2019.
Go to Section ArrowThe World Bank approved $15.0 billion in lending to the region for 152 operations in fiscal 2019, (of which two were IBRD and IDA blended operations), including $820 million in IBRD loans and $14.2 billion in IDA commitments.
The World Bank approved $5.3 billion for 49 operations in the region in fiscal 2019, including $4.0 billion in IBRD loans and $1.3 billion in IDA commitments.
The World Bank approved $4.3 billion in lending to the region for 40 operations in fiscal 2019, including $3.7 billion in IBRD loans and $583 million in IDA commitments.
The World Bank approved $6.1 billion in lending to the region for 37 operations in fiscal 2019 (of which one was an IBRD and IDA blended operation), including $5.7 billion in IBRD loans and $430 million in IDA commitments.
The World Bank approved $5.5 billion in lending to the region for 19 operations in fiscal 2019, including $4.9 billion in IBRD loans and $611 million in IDA commitments.
The World Bank approved $8.9 billion in lending to the region for 54 operations in fiscal 2019, including $4.0 billion in IBRD loans and $4.9 billion in IDA commitments.
