Last year, Selena Gomez became the youngest person to be named a United Nations Children's Fund Ambassador in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.10.08

He says the programs the fund supports saved at least three thousand six hundred lives every day last year.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

Both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund expect the world economy to shrink this year for the first time since World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

Last year, the International Monetary Fund studied the financial security of Islamic banks.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

Arporn Chewrekrengkai, chief economist with the Government Pension Fund, has revised her optimistic outlook for tourism this year.

VOA: standard.2010.03.27

And even though he won at the national championships last year, the U.S.Ski and Snowboard Association decided not to fund him anymore.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

First the good news: after contracting slightly in 2009, global economic output is expected to grow more than 4 percent this year, according to the International Monetary Fund.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

The $2.4 billion figure approved by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis is $350 million less than last year's amount, which was set before the full effects of the world economic slump were known.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15