2017-01-02 Mon

The 25 years of Partnership Anniversary Stamp is issued by Romfilatelia to celebrate the opening of the World Bank Group’s resident office in Bucharest in 1991.

The World Bank Group (WBG) is the leading international organization that provides financial and technical assistance to countries around the world. The institutional mission is to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030 and boost shared prosperity for the poorest 40 percent of people.

The WBG’s partnership with Romania traces its origins back to 1972. In the year of 1991 World Bank group opened a resident office at Bucharest – the capital of Romania. Over the past 25 years, the World Bank has touched every sector of Romanian society.

The stamp with face value of Lei 12 represents an allegory, with the silhouette of Romania in the centre of the image, surrounded symbolically by areas in which the World Bank Group has had a significant impact over the last 25 years: agriculture, environment and climate change, education, health, transport, private sector development, public administration reform, justice and other sectors.