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The two observer states at the UN, the Vatican City and State of Palestine, are also not members of the World Bank. Kosovo is not a member of the UN, but is a member of the International Monetary Fund [1] and the World Bank Group, [2] both specialized agencies in the United Nations System.
Lithuania: Euro: European Central Bank (Bank of Lithuania) Lietuvos Bankas: 1990 Luxembourg: Euro: European Central Bank (Central Bank of Luxembourg) Banque centrale du Luxembourg / Luxemburger Zentralbank / Zentralbank vu Lëtzebuerg: 1998 Macau: Macanese pataca: Monetary Authority of Macao: 澳門金融管理局 Autoridade Monetária de Macau ...
For the poorest developing countries in the world, the bank's assistance plans are based on poverty reduction strategies; by combining an analysis of local groups with an analysis of the country's financial and economic situation the World Bank develops a plan pertaining to the country in question. The government then identifies the country's ...
All three countries are member states of the European Union, and the Eurozone. They are classified as high-income economies by the World Bank and maintain high Human Development Index. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are also members of the OECD. [2] Estonia adopted the euro currency in January 2011, Latvia in January 2014, and Lithuania in ...
Lithuania, [b] officially the Republic of Lithuania, [c] is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. [d] It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and the Russian semi-exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest, with a maritime border with Sweden to the west.
The term "World Bank" generally refers to just the IBRD and IDA, whereas the term "World Bank Group" or "WBG" is used to refer to all five institutions collectively. [ 17 ] The World Bank Institute is the capacity development branch of the World Bank, providing learning and other capacity-building programs to member countries.
This is a list of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme, including 193 UN member states, two UN observer states (the Holy See [note 1] and the State of Palestine), two states in free association with New Zealand (the Cook Islands and Niue), and 49 non-sovereign dependencies or territories, as well as Western Sahara (a disputed territory whose sovereignty is contested) and ...
This is a list of countries by external debt: it is the total public and private debt owed to nonresidents repayable in internationally accepted currencies, goods or services, where the public debt is the money or credit owed by any level of government, from central to local, and the private debt the money or credit owed by private households or private corporations based on the country under ...