Hosted by the Chinese Government, the Congress is organized by UNESCO with support from the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), The World Health Organization and the European Training Foundation (ETF).
Hosted by the Government of China, it is organized by UNESCO with support from the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), The World Health Organization and the European Training Foundation (ETF).
By acknowledging local community development as both a responsibility and an opportunity, there is hope that more inclusive financial policies and products will reach the millions of Americans with no access to formal banking and spawn further innovation in the world of local economic development.
The two organizations were created in the 1940s to oversee post-World War II economic development, with the IMF initially focussing on currency and financial considerations and the World Bank helping to pay for infrastructure in emerging economies.
President Fernandez of Dominican Republic joined many leaders of global development agencies including the World Bank to drive sustained economic development.
This study is the most comprehensive assessment to date of the value of the natural world to global economic development.
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This comprehensive analysis of Soviet economic prospects and how the West might best support putative efforts toward systemic reform in the USSR has been jointly conducted by the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the newly established European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
Chile is considered one of the most stable and secure countries in South America, according to reports by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Bank.
Almost two-thirds of South Koreans between 25 and 34 years old have college degrees, the highest ratio in the world, according to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development.
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But with the corporate income tax rate being what it is, the second highest effective tax rate in the world, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD, then companies are doing what is logically sane for them to do.
Lamine says the agricultural policies of the world's richest nations are choking economic development in some of the poorest countries on the globe.
Around the world, auto factories are considered an economic development prize not only because the factories themselves usually employ more than 1, 000 workers at good wages, but because they attract auto-component factories to build nearby, generating thousands more jobs.
The General Assembly today agreed to convene a high-level conference on the impact of the world financial and economic crisis on development, from 1 to 3 June at Headquarters.
This year the United States is projected to run a budget deficit that amounts to 11.9% of GDP in 2010, the highest in the first world, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (although the Congressional Budget Office puts the deficit-to-GDP ratio at 8.9%).
Indeed, emerging economies--defined here as those not included in the 30 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development--now make up more than half of the world's economic horsepower.
Open Japan to the world: Strategic development of economic partnerships.
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development lowered its growth forecasts for the world's largest economies.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which represents the world's richest nations, also lowered its growth forecasts.
The country's next priority is to gain membership of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, composed of the world's industrialized nations, he said.
This survey will explore the many ways in which China's rapid economic development is affecting the rest of the world, from jobs and growth to oil prices and inflation.
Many of the challenges brought to the Arctic by climate change and economic development are the same as those faced around the world.
Last month the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said the financial crisis will probably push the world's most industrialized countries into their worst recession since the early 1980s.
Our goal was getting technology into the hands of underserved populations around the world to improve education, health care and economic development.
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Economic development was vital if the world was going to give dignity to the hundreds of millions of people in grinding poverty.
Unfortunately this is also one vice where the U.S. is near to the top of the lists, as America now has the highest adult obesity rate in the developed world at 34%, according to a report by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD).
Anywhere in the world, justice and honest dealing are key to economic development.
"For example, pocketing measures that were, for all intents and purposes, already underway by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, demonstrates the Administration's determination to avoid its own economic and financial measures, " Gaffney added.
In September she'll be heading to the Dominican Republic as a volunteer in a new program sponsored by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development called "Weltwarts, " which means "Going out into the World, " for young people between the ages of 18 and 28 who would like to volunteer in developing countries.
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According to a report on cyber-security issued earlier this year by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the chances of a conflict fought solely in the electronic world are extremely slim.
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This latest edition, Water in a Changing World, emphasizes the role of water in development and economic growth.
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