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.
This study is the most comprehensive assessment to date of the value of the natural world to global economic development.
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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.
President Fernandez of Dominican Republic joined many leaders of global development agencies including the World Bank to drive sustained economic development.
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).
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.
Open Japan to the world: Strategic development of economic partnerships.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Anywhere in the world, justice and honest dealing are key to economic development.
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.
This latest edition, Water in a Changing World, emphasizes the role of water in development and economic growth.
UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: International Water Day 2009 - Transboundary water
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.
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%).
And Britain came first in a ranking of financial development in over 50 economies published by the World Economic Forum, which showed America slipping from top to third place, behind Australia.
The common measures of what constitutes a middle class vary significantly between nations and cultures, and where they fall in their socio-economic development with respect to the rest of the world.
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.
Suu Kyi urged participants at the World Economic Forum in Bangkok in July to invest in Myanmar's development.
Many of the challenges brought to the Arctic by climate change and economic development are the same as those faced around the world.
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.
The survey shows overwhelming support for the belief that if the information society is to be one in which all citizens throughout the world can equally access and use information resources for sustainable economic and social development, that cyberspace should be declared a resource to be shared by all for the global public good.
Our region offers a strong manufacturing and supply chain base, world-class research facilities, a highly-skilled workforce, and economic development organizations that foster innovation and entrepreneurship.
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