The World Bank Group

Our mission is to help developing countries and their people reach the goals by working with our partners to alleviate poverty. To do that we concentrate on building the climate for investment, jobs and sustainable growth, so that economies will grow, and by investing in and empowering poor people to participate in development.

At the World Bank we have made the world's challenge—to reduce global poverty—our challenge. Our work focuses on achievement of the Millennium Development Goals that call for the elimination of poverty and sustained development. The goals provide us with targets and yardsticks for measuring results.

Here are some useful things to know about the World Bank Group and its departments, structure, operating guidelines and procedures and sister organizations:

• About the World Bank
  • Ownership - who are our shareholders?
  • Board of Executive Directors
  • Management organization chart
• IBRD Articles of Agreement - the rules Bank staff must follow
• IDA Articles of Agreement - the rules Bank staff working on IDA countries must follow
• IFC Articles of Agreement - the conditions of IFC membership and the general principles of organization, management, and operations
• IMF website - our sister organization, in simplest terms, the IMF stabilizes and the Bank develops
• International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) - convention, regulations and rules