THE WORLD BANK IN THE 1960S

The article discusses the history of the World Bank in the 1960s, linking it with the international economics and American foreign policy. Identifies the organizational profile built in the 1950s, deeply marked by financial dependence on Wall Street, and analyzes a set of international political and economic pressures that eventually impose the realization of changes in organizational structure and credit policy of the entity. Moreover, it characterizes the major lines of the Bank's accelerated growth in the 1960s in terms of loan volumes, number of client States, administrative budget and size of employee numbers. It also discusses the relative diversification of the financed projects' profile.