Objectives

   Currently, in accordance with the Millennium Declaration, the World Bank has focused its activities on achieving the Millennium Development Goals. In the transition period to the third millennium, under the auspices of the UN were formulated eight goals, the achievement of which should be sent to the efforts of international organizations. The Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015 and include the following:

      1. eradication of poverty and hunger;

      2. universal primary education;

      3. promoting gender equality and empower women;

      4. reduce child mortality;

      5. improve maternal health;

      6. combating HIV / AIDS, malaria and other diseases;

      7. ensuring environmental sustainability;

      8. Develop a global partnership for development.

   Solving global problems of human development, World Bank, through the mechanism of IBRD loans, credits the country's middle-income countries at interest rates corresponding to the level of the market in these countries. Other financial institutions the World Bank's IDA lends to countries with low income at minimal interest rates or without interest.