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The World Bank, originally the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, is the institution the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference created to finance the reconstruction of economies devastated by the Second World War and, over time, the development of poorer nations more broadly. It began operating in 1945 alongside the International Monetary Fund as the second of the two Bretton Woods institutions.

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Founded Year
1945 1
1945 is the year the Bretton Woods Agreements' Articles of Agreement entered into force and the World Bank (IBRD) formally came into existence, not the July 1944 Bretton Woods Conference that drafted the agreement and not the 25 June 1946 start of lending operations (both are real dates for this institution, just not this field's referent). SourceId 7118 states Congress passed the Bretton Woods Agreements Act in July 1945 and the IMF and World Bank "officially came into existence five months later" (December 1945); en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_Conference gives the exact day, 27 December 1945, naming the IBRD explicitly, matching the sibling IMF entity's own founded-date (EntityPropertyId 1704100) in this atlas. Established by w-uncited-0828, 2026-08-28, after the political lane correctly declined to overwrite this value without settling which of the three dates it means. Value and SourceId unchanged by this note.
Headquarters
1818 H Street NW, Washington, D.C., United States 2
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1. Bretton Woods Conference (Office of the Historian)
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian
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The IBRD was responsible for providing financial assistance for the reconstruction of war-ravaged nations and the economic development of less developed countries.
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2. World Bank (Wikipedia)
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2. World Bank (Wikipedia)
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Headquarters: 1818 H Street Northwest, Washington D.C., U.S.
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