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Toolkit for Activists, Issue 5

The World Bank’s Articles of Agreement establish the Bank as a financial institution whose purpose is to
assist the reconstruction and development of borrowing countries, reduce poverty, promote foreign investment and international trade, and promote the maintenance of balance of payments by providing loans and credits. This toolkit will describe what types of loans and guarantees the Bank makes.

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Toolkit for Activists, Issue 1

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Toolkits for Activists, Issue 4

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The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) are the
World Bank Group’s private sector arms. While the World Bank (IBRD and IDA) works with  governments, IFC and MIGA work only with businesses, providing them with loans, equity, investment services, technical assistance, and insurance. The IFC has worked with nearly 2000 companies in 129 countries since its inception in 1956. MIGA is

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Toolkits for Activists, Issue 2

The Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) is the World Bank’s “Master Plan” for each borrowing country. If your gov-
ernment borrows from the World Bank, then the World Bank has a CAS for your country. The Bank prepares a CAS for each of its 180 active borrowers every one to five years, which identifies all of the Bank’s anticipated operations in this timeframe— operations to reform economic policies, implement projects and prepare technical analyses.
The CAS is the Bank’s strategic plan which it uses to:

1.  justify its involvement in a country based upon: its assessment of financial risk and return on investment, the country’s priorities, the activities of other donors and creditors, and the way that the Bank defines its comparative advantage;
2. identify the analytical work and lending operations planned for the timeframe of the CAS; and
3. describe the health, or quality, of the borrower’s Bank-financed operations. The collection of all Bank-financed loan operations in a country is called the loan “portfolio.”

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