The World Bank is an international financial institution headquartered in Washington, D.C., that provides loans and grants to developing countries for capital projects, making it one of the primary vehicles for international development finance and economic governance.
Financed major infrastructure and development projects worldwide; its conditionality requirements shaped economic policy in developing nations; became a major vehicle of the Washington Consensus.
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