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In response to the 2007 – 2008 world food price crisis, the IBRD initiated a Global Food Crisis Response Program which provided food assistance to 40 million people across 44 countries.

The IBRD's lending accelerated and expanded in 2009 in response to the global financial crisis, committing approximately $ 60 billion USD to support developing countries, which was 54 % more than it had committed in 2008.

The Bank's education lending reached a historical high of approximately $ 5 billion USD in 2010.

In 2010, the Bank opened all of its data to the public, primarily via the establishment of its data. worldbank. org website.

By April 2011, approximately 100, 000 visitors per week accessed its data and the Bank awarded prizes to people who had participated in the first competition to use the data to develop mobile apps.

That same year, the IBRD loaned $ 200 million from its own accounts and $ 97 million from its Clean Technology Fund to a solar power plant project in Morocco.