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After a slow start, its first loan was to France in 1947. In its early years, it primarily focused on rebuilding Europe. [7] Over time, it focused on providing loans to developing world countries. [8] In the 1970s, the World Bank re-conceptualized its mission of facilitating development as being oriented around poverty reduction. [8]
1970s energy crisis. OPEC oil price shock (1973) Energy crisis (1979) 1972–1973 Indian economic crisis; 1973–1975 recession; Secondary banking crisis of 1973–1975, in the UK; 1979–1980 Indian economic crisis; Latin American debt crisis (late 1970s to early 1980s), the "lost decade"
Panic of 1857, a U.S. recession with bank failures; Panic of 1866, Europe; Panic of 1873, a U.S. recession with bank failures, followed by a 4-year depression; Panic of 1884, United States and Europe; Panic of 1890, mainly affecting the United Kingdom and Argentina; Panic of 1893, a U.S. recession with bank failures; Australian banking crisis ...
World Bank Group's Franziska Ohnsorge joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss inflation, recessionary risks, rising rates, and the outlook for the global economy.
This list of countries by largest GDP shows how the membership and rankings of the world's ten largest economies as measured by their gross domestic product has changed. . While the United States has consistently had the world's largest economy for some time, in the last fifty years the world has seen both rises and falls in relative terms of the economies of other count
A man-made disaster in eastern Brazil in the late 1970s helped prompt the World Bank to adopt its first systematic protections for people living in the footprint of big projects. Rising waters upstream from the Sobradinho Dam, built with World Bank financing, forced more than 60,000 people from their homes.
The 1973–1975 recession or 1970s recession was a period of economic stagnation in much of the Western world during the 1970s, putting an end to the overall post–World War II economic expansion. It differed from many previous recessions by involving stagflation , in which high unemployment and high inflation existed simultaneously.
Between 2004 and 2013, the World Bank committed to lend or give at least $338 billion, according to bank data. Its private-lending affiliate, the International Finance Corporation, committed to invest at least $116 billion during the same period in corporations and other banks in pursuit of the overall goal of alleviating poverty.