World+Bank

=World Bank=

Alliances
 The word bank does not have allies in the way that the other organizations do, instead they partner with other organizations to make a difference. For example, the World Bank has partnered with the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), and the ARC (Alliance of Religion and Conservation). They are also a part of the Rural Alliances Project for Bolivia, as well as the Rural Productive Partnership Project.

 In addition, the World Bank and the WWF have joined together to face the threats against the worlds forests. Their goal is to create well managed and well protected forest areas. They're doing this by partnering with governments, businesses, and the civil society in order to attempt to reverse the amount of forest loss, as well as reduce the amount of rural poverty. Also, the ARC (Alliance of Religion and Conservation) have partnered together to work in projects that involve faith. Together, they work in places where poverty and biodiversity are linked. The original goal of this project was to help the Asian countries.

What does the world bank do
The World bank tries to help countries develop. They try to fight poverty and try to help the countries provide resources so they can stay out of poverty and create relationships with other countries. The World bank isn’t a bank per say, they are made up of two other sections there’s the International Development Association or IDA and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). Each plays a different role but they each help in the cause of the world bank. The IBRD aims to reduce poverty in middle class countries and the IDA works on the poorest countries. They work with the International Finance Corporation (IFA), Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

Nuclear Proliferation:
The spread of ballistic missiles, nuclear weapons, and chemical weapons (weapons of mass destruction). Poor people prefer this method because it provides powerful leverage in international. Proliferation is used essentially to intimidate other countries. Treaties have been made to limit the amount of proliferation of nuclear weapons. Treaties started after world war II ended. Most strong nuclear weapons have an extremely high amount of enriched uranium (80%). A nuclear reactor contains 4% uranium.

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The World Bank was created in December 1945. It was designed to address the financial problems faced by countries after World War II occurred. In May of 1947 the World Bank issued their first and largest loan of $250million or in today's money $2.5billion to France for post war reconstruction. The world bank is a non profit bank that provides low-interest loans to developing countries to help develop infrastructure and reduce poverty, they also provide grants that do not need to be paid back, but only to the poorest countries.  In April of 2009, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund met in Washington D.C. to discuss the impact of the global economic crisis that has been developing throughout the world. The World Bank urged the more wealthy nations to provide aid to the poorer countries. They pledged $55 billion for public work projects and $12 billion for social support programs to help the struggling nations. On January 12, 2010 the island nation of Haiti, already struggling with debt, was struck by a major earth quake that killed an estimated 230,000 people and left hundreds of thousands more injured and homeless. The World Bank authorized $100 million in emergency aid to them. But on March 31 the World Bank agreed to cancel Haiti's remaining debt. ======

Weapons Trade:
U.S trades with France Germany, Israel, and the UK. The U.S mainly supports Israel. Providing them with 3 billion dollars in annual aid in the year 2001. Sales to Israel all together is 2.95 billion dollars. President Barak Obama supports a treaty that will regulate a 55 billion-a - year trade on conventional weapons.

Food:
====The World Bank set up the Global Food Prices Response Program in May of 2008. They did this to provide immediate relieve to countries that were harshly effected by the high food prices. The GRFP has handed out one billion two hundred and thirty two point two million dollars to thirty-five different countries as of September 2010. The money is used to feed poor children, buy seeds for the new season, and help give nutrients to pregnant women. ====