The IDA's stated aim is to assist the poorest nations in growing more quickly, equitably, and sustainably to reduce poverty.

IDA's task is to negotiate new assignments for sailors in the US Navy after they end a tour of duty, by matching each individual's skills and preferences with the Navy's needs.

One of IDA's key responsibilities is creating a conducive, innovative, and competitive infocomm environment that is both pro-consumer and pro-business.

This in spite of watching several US Navy detailers repeatedly nodding their heads saying ' Yes, that's how I do it ' while watching IDA's internal and external actions as she performs her task.

The World Bank's ( the IBRD and IDA's ) activities are focused on developing countries, in fields such as human development ( e. g. education, health ), agriculture and rural development ( e. g. irrigation, rural services ), environmental protection ( e. g. pollution reduction, establishing and enforcing regulations ), infrastructure ( e. g. roads, urban regeneration, electricity ), and governance ( e. g. anti-corruption, legal institutions development ).

Researchers with the Center for Global Development expect that the IDA's collection of eligible borrowing countries will decrease by half by the year 2025 ( marking the 65th anniversary of the association's establishment ) due to graduations and that remaining borrowers will consist primarily of African countries and will face substantial population declines.

The executive directors collectively represent all 187 member states of the World Bank, although decisions regarding IDA matters concern only the IDA's 172 member states.

The president oversees the IDA's overall direction and daily operations.

Approximately half of the IDA's resources come from the 45 donating member countries.

Every three years, member nations that provide funds to the IDA gather together to replenish the IDA's resources.

Fifty one member countries participated in the IDA's 16th replenishment of $ 49. 3 billion USD.

The IDA's loans and grants are usually not paid in full to the borrower at the outset, but rather disbursed incrementally as needed by the for carrying out the project.

Although the IDA's funds are now regularly replenished, this does not happen without some financial and political challenges for the donating countries.

Because African countries face some of the most severe poverty and underdevelopment, and because 39 of those countries are the IDA's poorest member states, the association allocates approximately half of the IDA's resources toward financing projects in those countries.

Although the positive outcomes of the IDA's efforts in Africa had been historically slow, the large allocation of funding to African countries led to positive outcomes particularly within agriculture and infrastructure development efforts.

The IDA's efforts in Asia have been particularly successful.

In 1991, because of its balance of payments difficulties, Comoros became eligible for the IDA's Special Program of Assistance for debt-distressed countries of sub-Saharan Africa.

If the less developed countries are to be persuaded to adopt a long-term approach, the United States, as the principal supplier of external aid, must be prepared to give long-term commitments.

Notable names in mid-century modern design include Adrian Frutiger, designer of the typefaces Univers and Frutiger ; Paul Rand, who, from the late 1930s until his death in 1996, took the principles of the Bauhaus and applied them to popular advertising and logo design, helping to create a uniquely American approach to European minimalism while becoming one of the principal pioneers of the subset of graphic design known as corporate identity ; and Josef Müller-Brockmann, who designed posters in a severe yet accessible manner typical of the 1950s and 1970s era.

The principal drawback of this approach is the high rate of false positive or equivocal levels due to the imprecision of the currently available meters: both physician and patient need an accurate understanding of what a meter can and cannot do to avoid frustrating and inconclusive results.

According to principal architect Stephen P. Morse, this was a result of a more software centric approach than in the design of earlier Intel processors ( the designers had experience working with compiler implementations ).

One traditional approach in this form of fiction is for the main detective's principal assistant, the " Watson ", to be the narrator: this derives from the character of Dr Watson in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.

The first principal component about the mean of a set of points can be represented by that line which most closely approaches the data points ( as measured by squared distance of closest approach, i. e. perpendicular to the line ).

Elliott and Miller write that Aberhart took a less rigid approach to discipline at Crescent Heights than he had in Ontario, though Schultz says that as principal he was " authoritarian in manner and a strict disciplinarian ".

These guidelines differ materially in approach from those in other countries in two principal ways: 1 ) they are guidelines issued instructing field offices how to conduct transfer pricing examinations and adjustments, and 2 ) factors to be examined differ by transfer pricing method.

The principal reason for this approach is that the Maori Television Service is a partnership between the Crown and Maori.

It emerged as the principal approach to ethnographic research by anthropologists and relied on the cultivation of personal relationships with local informants as a way of learning about a culture, involving both observing and participating in the social life of a group.

The approach to the principal entrance, lined by clipped Bay laurel | bay trees.

In practice, the Rasch model has at least two principal advantages in comparison to the IRT approach.

Alternatively, the covariant derivative is a way of introducing and working with a connection on a manifold by means of a differential operator, to be contrasted with the approach given by a principal connection on the frame bundle – see affine connection.

Though the Beaux-Arts style embodies an approach to a regenerated spirit within the grand traditions rather than a set of motifs, principal characteristics of Beaux-Arts architecture included:

Through the Byward Market area, Sussex is a northbound one-way arterial road ( paired with Mackenzie Avenue ), before joining up at the Alexandra Bridge approach where it becomes a four-lane principal arterial road, with a speed limit of south of the bend and north and east of the bend.

In London, Webb's best known works include the Queen Victoria Memorial and The Mall approach to, and the principal facade of, Buckingham Palace, which he re-designed in 1913.

The principal cause stated was to coordinate opposition to further development of Heathrow Airport, whose incoming aircraft routinely overfly the constituency on their landing approach to the airport.

From the plans of Eduard Totleben a new fort, Constantine, and four batteries were constructed ( 1856 – 1871 ) to defend the principal approach, and seven batteries to cover the shallower northern channel.

At Little Billington a mile away a lodge was built for a new principal approach to the house.

* Another approach has been the comparative analysis of modern or at least historically known societies speaking languages of the Indo-European family, also widely seen as questionable, even the principal tenet, the Trifunctional hypothesis.

Petersham Road Lodge, the principal gate house on the approach to Ham House from the A307

The Court of Appeal seemed to take a narrower approach to " principal in the second degree " than the Court, but it is unclear, because " preconcerted arrangement " admits of different shades of meaning.

The change in approach led to some odd gaps in the list of locomotive classes when they were re-arranged as the principal class numbers were retained unaltered.

Providence was one of the principal pioneers of a sector-based approach to private equity investing.