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The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries.

It is the largest and most famous development bank in the world and is an observer at the United Nations Development Group.

The bank is based in Washington, D.C. and provided around $61 billion in loans and assistance to "developing" and transition countries in the 2014 fiscal year.

The bank's stated mission is to achieve the twin goals of ending extreme poverty and building shared prosperity.

Total lending as of 2015 for the last 10 years through Development Policy Financing was approximately $117 billion.

Its five organizations are the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

In ecology, sustainability (from sustain and ability) is the property of biological systems to remain diverse and productive .

Long-lived and healthy wetlands and forests are examples of sustainable biological systems.

In more general terms, sustainability is the endurance of systems and processes.

The organizing principle for sustainability is sustainable development, which includes the four interconnected domains: ecology, economics, politics and culture.

Sustainability science is the study of sustainable development and environmental science.

Globalization or globalisation (see spelling differences) is the action or procedure of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture.

Advances in transportation (such as the steam locomotive, steamship, jet engine, and container ships) and in telecommunications infrastructure (including the rise of the telegraph and its modern offspring, the Internet and mobile phones) have been major factors in globalization, generating further interdependence of economic and cultural activities.

For other forms of development, see Development (disambiguation).

International development or global development is a wide concept concerning the level of development on an international scale.

It is the basis for international classifications such as developed country, developing country and least developed country.

There are, however, many schools of thought and conventions regarding which are the exact features constituting development of a country.

Poverty reduction, or poverty alleviation, is a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian, that are intended to permanently lift people out of poverty.