The World Bank on Monday, April 11, said it expects its non market rate lending to hit $43 billion in the current fiscal year , bringing its total for the past four years to more than $150 billion.
The multilateral lender said its International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IDA) divisions are on pace to exceed the combined $42.4 billion reached in the fiscal year ended July 1, 2015.
IBRD lending in fiscal 2016 will exceed $25 billion, compared with $23.5 billion in fiscal 2015.
About 10 years ago, the IBRD lent about $14 billion, but peaked at $44 billion in fiscal 2010 as the financial crisis stoked demand from middle-income countries.
“We are in a global economy where growth is expected to remain weak, so it is critically important that the World Bank play our traditional role of helping developing countries accelerate growth,” World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said in a statement.
In February, the World Bank signed a deal with Peru for $2.5 billion in credit lines to help the Andean copper and gold exporter cope with lower global commodity prices and budget pressures. The bank is also in talks with oil exporter Nigeria on loans tied to policy reforms.
