Associate Professor Tadić at the Round Table “Croatia Demography and Development Report (CDDR)”

On Tuesday, 3 February 2026, Associate Professor Tado Jurić, PhD, from the University Department of History, took part, at the invitation of the World Bank, in the Round Table “Croatia Demography and Development Report (CDDR)”.

The World Bank Group has 189 member countries, represented in its highest governing body – the Board of Governors of the World Bank Group (the Governor for the Republic of Croatia is, by function, the Minister of Finance, while the Deputy Governor is the State Secretary at the Ministry of Finance, Mr Stipe Župan). The World Bank Group consists of 25 constituencies (groups of countries), and the Republic of Croatia is part of the Dutch constituency, headed by Mr Eugene Rhuggenaath, Executive Director of the World Bank Group. The Dutch constituency includes 13 countries: Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Montenegro, Georgia, Croatia, Israel, Moldova, the Netherlands, Romania, North Macedonia, and Ukraine. The President of the World Bank Group is Mr Ajay Banga (five-year term starting on 2 June 2023). Since 1998, the World Bank Group has had a Croatia Office in Zagreb. In 2001, the Office became the Regional Office of the World Bank for Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria, which, following reorganisation in 2006, was reorganised solely as the Croatia Office.

The Republic of Croatia became a full member of the World Bank Group on 25 February 1993. The World Bank Group is an important international financial institution for Croatia, which continuously and comprehensively supports the country’s economic and social development and the further development of the market economy. From the early 1990s, when other sources of financing were closed to Croatia, to the present day, the World Bank Group (especially the IBRD) has been a significant source of financing and a catalyst for reform adjustments. The financial support and overall role of the World Bank are adapted to the needs of infrastructure development, structural adjustments and the overall development of the Republic of Croatia.