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Eze worked as a communications specialist with the World Bank project for HIV/AIDS and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) before becoming a full-time cleric. [ 3 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Eze married Pastor Eno Ebele Jerry (born 22 February 1983) on 17 March 2007, and they have two children, a girl (named Samara) and a boy (named Jerry).
He set up his own consulting practice in 1977 and consulted for the World Bank from 1979 to 1985, officially joining the Bank as a staff member in 1986. In 1992, he became the Assistant to the Vice President for Environmentally Sustainable Development and started the World Bank Spiritual Unfoldment Society.
Harry Dexter White (left) and John Maynard Keynes, the "founding fathers" of both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) [11]. The World Bank was created at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, along with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Between 2004 and 2013, the World Bank committed to lend or give at least $338 billion, according to bank data. Its private-lending affiliate, the International Finance Corporation, committed to invest at least $116 billion during the same period in corporations and other banks in pursuit of the overall goal of alleviating poverty.
The World Bank Institute is the capacity development branch of the World Bank, providing learning and other capacity-building programs to member countries. The IBRD has 189 member governments, and the other institutions have between 153 and 184. [2] The institutions of the World Bank Group are all run by a board of governors meeting once a year ...
A 2012 internal review of nine World Bank-supported projects found that the number of affected people turned out to be, on average, 32 percent higher than the figure reported by the bank before approving the initiatives, understating the number of people affected by the nine projects by 77,500.
Wilson is remembered today due to the publication of derivative works based upon, and later-day republications of, his 1910 autobiography entitled Among the Shoshones, [2] such as The White Indian Boy: The Story of Uncle Nick Among the Shoshones [3] (a volume of the World Book Company's In Pioneer Life Series), The White Indian Boy, and its ...
The World Bank has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances. The World Bank and its private-sector lending arm, the International Finance Corp., have financed governments and companies accused of human rights violations such as rape, murder and torture.