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The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) is an international financial institutaion, established in the leadership of the United States with the multiple agreement in the Bretton Woods Conference to lift the trade barriers. With the establishment of IDA (International Development Association) in 1960, IBRD is refered the name World Bank. In the 1950s and 60s, the Bank's primary focus was that funding of large infrastructure projects such as roads, dams.. etc. In the sense of The Bank's development projects in 1970's, concentrated on people-oriented development projects such as related to rural and urban development more than the construction of material structures. In the 1980s, the Bank, began to imposed on "conditionally" for structural adjustment credits. The meaing of conditional loan is to commit borrower contries to implementing certain policy menus of reforms as health, education systems before receiving the funds agreed to. In the early 1990s, classical social policy discourse completely changed and social policies became facilitators of economic growth. Finally, the shifting from economic development to economic growth policies caused the Bank, became the global governance center of social policy. On the other hand, the Bank, gives advice that to have enhanced human capital for developing countries as the way of dealing with fierce competition and innovations coming through technology. I will try to explain the new social order in which the Bank is at the global center within the concepts of new labourforce, fierce competiton, technological innovation and human capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]