IFIwatchnet - Upcoming EventsConnecting organisations who monitor IFIs such as the World Bank, the IMF, and regional development banks.The European Investment Bank facing new challenges as it turns 50- June 13, 2008 With annual lending volumes now approaching EUR 50 billion, the EIB is the number one public bank in the world. In its 50 years of operations, the scope of the EIBs operations has changed considerably in comparison with its original mandate to mobilise and transfer capital from richer to poor EU regions through the financing of infrastructure projects. Welcome to a debate on the challenges faced today by the EIB as a result of the increased role it is playing as a development bank in regions...http://www.ifiwatchnet.org/?q=en/node/14601 |