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World Bank

A multilateral development lender financing governments and infrastructure worldwide. Its loans can reshape fiscal and social policy at national scale, while critics have challenged debt burdens, conditionality, environmental damage and the distribution of project benefits.

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People
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former chief economist
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former deputy managing director / World Bank alum
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Former World Bank CEO / IMF Managing Director

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