Content deleted Content added
m add {{Use dmy dates}} |
→Membership: this is redundant with "as of 2019" |
||
Line 43:
The IDA has 173 member countries which pay contributions every three years as replenishments of its capital. On December 12, 2008, Samoa joined UNIDO as its 173rd member.<ref name="What is IDA" /> The IDA lends to 75 borrowing countries, over half of which (39) are in Africa.<ref name="IDA Borrowers 2019">{{Cite web | title = Borrowing Countries | publisher = World Bank Group | author = International Development Association | url = http://ida.worldbank.org/about/borrowing-countries | access-date = 2019-06-13}}</ref> Membership in the IDA is available only to countries who are members of the World Bank, particularly the IBRD.<ref name="WBG Member Countries 2019">{{Cite web | title = Member Countries | publisher = World Bank Group | author = World Bank Group | url = http://www.worldbank.org/en/about/leadership/members | access-date = 2019-06-13}}</ref> Throughout its lifetime, 44 borrowing countries have graduated from the association, although 9 of these countries have relapsed as borrowers after not sustaining their graduate status.<ref name="IDA Graduates" />
To be eligible for support from the IDA, countries are assessed by their poverty and their lack of creditworthiness for commercial and IBRD borrowing.<ref name="IDA Eligibility & Terms 2001">{{Cite report | title = IDA Eligibility, Terms and Graduation Policies | publisher = World Bank Group | date = 2001 | author = International Development Association | url = http://siteresources.worldbank.org/IDA/Resources/Seminar%20PDFs/ida%20eligibility.pdf | access-date = 2012-07-01}}</ref> The association assesses countries based on their per capita income, lack of access to private [[capital market]]s, and policy performance in implementing pro-growth and anti-poverty economic or social reforms.<ref name="Moss et al. 2004" /><ref name="Adler et al. 2010">{{Cite journal | title = A framework to measure the relative socio-economic performance of developing countries | journal = Socio-Economic Planning Sciences | volume = 44 | issue = 2 | year = 2010 | pages = 73–88 | author = Adler, Nicole | author2 = Yazhemsky, Ekaterina | author3 = Tarverdyan, Ruzanana | doi=10.1016/j.seps.2009.08.001}}</ref> {{As of|2019}}, to borrow from the IDA's concessional lending programs, a country's gross national income (GNI) per capita must not exceed $1,145
===Countries that graduated from IDA lending===
| |||