Through the World Bank and other instrumentalities, as well as through individual action by every nation in position to help, we must squarely face this titanic challenge.

* Agriculture and Rural development from the World Bank

* The World Bank on Agricultural water management

Azerbaijan is a member of the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, NATO's Partnership for Peace, Euro-Atlantic Partnership ; World Health Organization, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ; the Council of Europe, CFE Treaty, the Community of Democracies ; the International Monetary Fund ; and the World Bank.

The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), World Bank, EBRD, as well as other international financial institutions ( IFIs ) and foreign countries are extending considerable grants and loans.

In October 2009, when visiting Yerevan, the World Bank ’ s managing director, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, warned that Armenia will not reach a higher level of development unless its leadership changes the " oligopolistic " structure of the national economy, bolsters the rule of law and shows " zero tolerance " towards corruption.

According to a World Bank official, 30 percent of Armenia's economy in 2009 came from the construction sector.

With the Armenian government needing more anti-crisis loans from the World Bank and other foreign donors, the debt-to-GDP ratio is expected to exceed 40 percent in 2010.

According to a World Bank official, a country that has around 12 percent rate of growth or even lower, at the range of 7 to 8 percent, can afford a level of public debt of up to 50 percent.

* World Bank in Armenia

Armenia is a member of more than 40 different international organizations including the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, NATO's Partnership for Peace, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Trade Organization and La Francophonie.

This graph shows the proportion of world population in extreme poverty 1981 – 2008 according to the World Bank.

In 2005 the World Bank defined extreme poverty as living on less than US $ 1. 25 a day.

* 1992 – Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Activists ' goals are for an end to the legal status of " corporate personhood " and the dissolution of free market fundamentalism and the radical economic privatization measures of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization.

Common targets include the World Bank ( WB ), International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) and free trade treaties like the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ), Free Trade Area of the Americas ( FTAA ), the Multilateral Agreement on Investment ( MAI ) and the General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS ).

World Bank / International Monetary Fund | IMF protesters smashed the windows of this PNC Financial Services | PNC Bank branch located in the Logan Circle, Washington, D. C. | Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, D. C.

The writer Arundhati Roy is famous for her anti-nuclear position and her activism against India's massive hydroelectric dam project, sponsored by the World Bank.

Also, George Soros, Joseph E. Stiglitz ( another Economic Sciences Nobel prize winner, formerly of the World Bank, author of Globalization and Its Discontents ) and David Korten have made arguments for drastically improving transparency, for debt relief, land reform, and restructuring corporate accountability systems.

The great increase in the amount of archaeological activity, and therefore information, in the years immediately preceeding and following the Second World War has brought to light data which has changed the complection of the Saxon Shore dispute.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

They feel that World War 3, has already begun, and they are setting themselves up as a `` last line of defense '' against the Communist advance.

Though the number of people flowing in and out of our metropolitan areas each day has increased tremendously since World War 2,, total annual rail commutation dropped 124 million for 1947 to 1957.

Certainly, it is the traditional clarity of his music which has endeared him to the Western World -- not his experimentations.

There is no doubt that higher education since World War 2, has moved away from `` pure '' liberal education toward greater emphasis on technology and specialization.

The submarine has increased its effectiveness by several orders of magnitude since World War 2.

George Kennan's account of relations between Russia and the West from the fall of Tsarism to the end of World War 2, is the finest piece of diplomatic history that has appeared in many years.

* Tim Puckett, the principal investigator of the Puckett Observatory World Supernova Search team, which has discovered over 200 supernovae since 1998.

Kournikova's forte has been doubles, where she has at times been the World No. 1 player.

The novel has been read as a metaphorical treatment of the French resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II.

The government has made major strides toward joining the World Trade Organization.

Aachen Cathedral has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Since conference and of the Food and Agriculture Organization's publication World Festival of Trees, and a resolution of the United Nations in 1954: " The Conference, recognising the need of arousing mass consciousness of the aesthetic, physical and economic value of trees, recommends a World Festival of Trees to be celebrated annually in each member country on a date suited to local conditions "; it has been adopted by the Netherlands.

Since 1977, New Zealand has celebrated Arbor Day on June 5, which is also World Environment Day, prior to then Arbor Day, in New Zealand, was celebrated on August 4 – which is rather late in the year for tree planting in New Zealand hence the date change.

Also known as the D-Backs, Arizona has one World Series title, in 2001, becoming the fastest expansion team in the majors to win a championship, doing it in only the fourth season since their expansion in 1998.

Karen Ralls has cited Freemason Patrick Byrne, who believes the Ark was moved from Rennes-le-Château at the outbreak of World War I to America.

Aerial armour has been used to protect pilots and aircraft systems since the Second World War.

Tank armour has progressed from the Second World War armour forms, now incorporating not only harder composites, but also reactive armour designed to defeat shaped charges.

Naval armour has fundamentally changed from the Second World War doctrine of thicker plating to defend against shells, bombs and torpedos.

Although it has previously been assigned to its own genus Alopex, genetic evidence places it in Vulpes ( Mammal Species of the World ) with the majority of the other foxes.

After 1984's Marvel Super-Heroes proved the viability of the concept, TSR revised Gamma World, Star Frontiers, and Top Secret to use similar tables.

( In a nod to Gamma Worlds reputation for being repeatedly revised, the book's back cover states " That's right, it's the return of the Gamma World ".

One of the most significant revisions is the Declaration of Geneva, first drafted in 1948 by the World Medical Association ; it has since been revised several times.

The most widespread SOC in this field is published and frequently revised by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health ( WPATH, formerly the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association or HBIGDA ).

In 2008, the World Bank came out with a revised figure of $ 1. 25 at 2005 purchasing-power parity ( PPP ).

* The World Is Flat: A Brief History of The Twenty-first Century ( 2005 ; expanded edition 2006 ; revised edition 2007 )

His books include Puritanism and Revolution ( 1958 ), Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution ( 1965 and revised in 1996 ), The Century of Revolution ( 1961 ), AntiChrist in 17th-century England ( 1971 ), The World Turned Upside Down ( 1972 ) and many others.

* George Gamow, Russell Stannard ( Editor ), Michael Edwards ( Illustrator ), The New World of Mr Tompkins, Cambridge University Press, 2001 ( revised and updated edition ), ISBN 0-521-63992-1

Note that the timing of " Orchid " on revised US pressings is incorrect, as it includes the " Step Up " introductory section of " Lord of This World.

Ellison began the cycle with the 1969 short story of the same title, and a revised and expanded novella-length version was published in Ellison's story collection The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World the same year.

After Bodley died in 1907, his partner Henry Vaughan revised the original design, but work stopped during World War I and Vaughan died in 1917.

A revised version of these lectures was published as Mind and World ( Cambridge, Mass.

Beginning in 1959, " the definition of a stillbirth was revised to conform, in substance, to the definition of fetal death recommended by the World Health Organization.

The Folsom and Clovis discoveries of the 1920s and 1930s revised the minimum time frame for the initial occupation of the New World.

The revised 10-in-1 was intended for use during and after the 1945 planned attack on Japan during World War II.

Although there are still some " traditionalist " NA members who use the third edition ( revised ) of the Basic Text, the NA World Service Conference, in 1988, decided that the 5th Edition was the only edition approved for sale and distribution by the World Service office.

* Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, translated by Stillman Drake, University of California Press, 1953 ( revised 1967 ).

In the past, Stockton had been classified as a national liberal arts college, but because U. S. News & World Report revised the categories early in 2007, it resulted in placements in a different category for a number of institutions, including Stockton.

# Changeling Earth, ( DAW Feb. 1973 ); revised as Ardneh's World for 1979 printing, see below

Spengler revised this volume in 1922 and published the second volume, subtitled Perspectives of World History, in 1923.

Car and Driver reported upon introduction of Corvair's revised second generation – editor David E. Davis said: " We have to go on record and say that the Corvair is – in our opinion – the most important new car of the entire crop of ' 65 models, and the most beautiful car to appear in this country since before World War II.

On 9 December 2005, Guinness World Records recognized the claim of then 116-year-old María Capovilla of Ecuador to be the world's oldest person, supplanting Hendrikje from the revised title.

Shivering World was revised and re-released in early 2004.