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 World Calendar, unlike some other proposals, is not compatible with the international standard ISO 8601, which is based upon, but differs from, the Gregorian calendar.

The Great Blue Heron is replaced in the Old World by the very similar Grey Heron, which differs in being somewhat smaller ( 90 – 98 cm ), with a pale gray neck and legs, lacking the browner colors that Great Blue Heron has there.

World Fantasy Award winners are chosen by a panel of judges, which differs every year.

This standard differs slightly from the widely used World Resource Institute and may be easier to calculate and apply.

The Walloon Movement ( after World War II ) differs from the Flemish movement in that it is focused not on cultural and linguistic factors but rather on economic factors.

* International ( medal rounds ): Various tiebreaking procedures have been used for international tournaments, with all of them save one ( World Cup of Hockey 2004 ) following a common theme: one period varying in length of sudden-death overtime followed by a shootout of five skaters per side ( as opposed to the NHL's three skaters per side ; it also differs in that if the shootout does not resolve the tie, the same five skaters then shoot again ).

The METAR reporting system in use in the United States differs from the one used by the World Meteorological Organization in that wind speeds are delivered in knots ( instead of meters per second ) and altimeter setting in the customary inches of mercury ( instead of hectopascals ).

* Siegfried Stellung ( Note that this differs from the Siegfried Line, built along the German border with France prior to World War II )-from near Arras to St Quentin

The Champions Trophy differs from the World Cup in a number of ways.

On the whole, slavery among the tribals vastly differs from that of the West or New World.

After World War II, Jews who came to North America, Israel, and other places established girls ' schools of the same name, although some claim that the educational philosophy differs slightly from that of the original Bais Yaakov schools.

Many traditional methods, techniques, and materials, are now experiencing a resurgence of popularity, however the relative popularity of these techniques differs around the World.

The World Engine also differs in the EMS as it measures the amount of intake air indirectly using a MAP sensor, to lower production costs.

The supercilium of the Northern Waterthrush, a New World warbler, differs subtly from that of the closely related ( and similarly plumaged ) Louisiana Waterthrush.

He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

Further, we must induce all industrialized nations of the Free World to work together to help lift the scourge of poverty from less fortunate.

Such were the incongruities of the situation that the very police assigned to check up on me were drafted into driving me to the Strasbourg Hospital while World Citizen Jean Babel waved adieu from the `` Line ''!!

In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.

There had been reading at table, especially from two books, Pope Gregory The Great's account of St. Scholastica in his Dialogues and my own The World Of Washington Irving.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

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.

This central episode consists of a series of staccato scenes set in the period from the beginning of the present century up to the first World War.

In 1950, Public Law 920 created Civil Defense ( different from Civilian-groups of World War 2 ), a responsibility of the Government at all levels to help reduce loss of life and property in disaster, natural or manmade.

Under leave to extend my remarks, I include the relevant portion of my newsletter, together with the text of the article from the U.S. News & World Report: `` your Congressman, Samuel S. Stratton, reports from Washington, May 1, 1961

( from U.s. News & World Report, May 8, 1961 )

Easy to get to, and becoming more popular every year, it is only fourteen hours from New York by Pan American World Airways jet, four hours from Rome.

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.

With great difficulty he made his way from his native Hungary to Geneva to renew his contacts as a member of the Provisional Committee for the World Council of Churches.

Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

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.

During World War 2,, doctors in The Netherlands and Scandinavia noted a curious fact: despite the stresses of Nazi occupation, the death rate from coronary artery disease was slowly dropping.

Following World War II, Alabama experienced growth as the economy of the state transitioned from one primarily based on agriculture to one with diversified interests.

Andre Kirk Agassi (; born April 29, 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada ) is a retired American professional tennis player and former World No. 1, who was one of the game's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s.

Aldous ' near-blindness disqualified him from service in the First World War.

It is the Atlantic that separates the " Old World " from the " New World ".