Scenarios about 'World Bank'
The World Bank is an international financial institution established in 1944 that provides loans and grants to developing countries for capital projects and policy reform. Originally created to finance post-World War II reconstruction, it evolved to focus on poverty reduction through investments in infrastructure, education, healthcare, and institutional reforms. In alternate history scenarios, different World Bank policies or leadership could significantly alter global development patterns, economic relationships between nations, and the trajectory of emerging economies.
What If Structural Adjustment Programs Were Never Implemented?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the controversial IMF and World Bank structural adjustment policies never reshaped developing economies in the 1980s and 1990s, potentially altering global economic development, debt relationships, and the trajectory of the Global South.
What If The International Debt Crisis of The 1980s Never Occurred?
Exploring the alternate timeline where developing nations avoided the devastating debt crisis of the 1980s, potentially transforming global economic development and North-South relations for decades to come.
What If The Latin American Debt Crisis Never Happened?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Latin American nations avoided the devastating debt crisis of the 1980s, potentially transforming the region's economic development, political stability, and global influence.
What If The Washington Consensus Never Emerged?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the neoliberal economic policies known as the Washington Consensus never became the dominant framework for global development, fundamentally altering the course of economic globalization since the 1980s.
What If The World Bank Was Never Created?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the Bretton Woods Conference failed to establish the World Bank, dramatically reshaping post-WWII international development, economic cooperation, and global financial systems.