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The World Bank Group: IBRD, IDA, IFC and the data it publishes
The World Bank Group lends to governments on two sets of terms, invests in private companies, and publishes data on developing economies. This lesson explains how its main institutions differ, how they are funded, how the World Bank classifies economies by income, and which of its datasets a lender can use to read a market.
Published 15 October 2026 · Listen to this lesson
In this lesson
- Three institutions that finance, two that protect
- How they are funded
- Income groups: how the World Bank classifies economies
- A worked example: Southeast Asia in the classification
- The data a lender can use