Overview of data and publications of the World Bank

Following the devastation of World War II, in 1944 the representatives of 44 governments met in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in the United States to develop a strategy for rebuilding the international economy. A key outcome of the meeting was the creation of the International Bank for Recon-struction and Development (IBRD), which would become known as the “world bank,” and the International Monetary Fund. Its loans helped European coun-tries rebuild after World War II. That made it the world´s first multilateral de-velopment bank [].