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.

World production of coffee broke all previous records in 1959 and 1960 at more than 5 million tons.

* 1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender ( August 15 in Japan Standard Time ).

These were the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record records, all of which were spinoffs of Sagan's memories of the World Fair.

There were also underground discotheques in Nazi Germany patronized by anti-Nazi youth called the swing kids .. Jimmy Saville played records of big band music in dance halls in Leeds, England, during World War Two.

Some 1, 200 Jewish residents and refugees from other Balkan countries were hidden by Albanian families during World War II, according to official records.

The papers contain photographs, wartime letters, and military records of Klein documenting his service in World War II as a director of Jewish religious affairs in Germany.

The official Soviet archival records do not contain comprehensive figures for some categories of victims, such as those of ethnic deportations or of German population transfers in the aftermath of World War II.

According to draft registration records for World War I, Peter and Elizabeth were apparently still together as late as 1917.

Schumacher is a seven-time World Champion and is widely regarded as the greatest F1 driver of all time on his performance records alone.

By the time of the First World War, the mass advertising and popularity of the Victor Talking Machine Company's Victrolas ( a line of disc-playing machines characterized by their concealed horns ) was leading to widespread generic use of the word " victrola " for any machine that played discs, which were however still called " phonograph records " or simply " records ", almost never " victrola records ".

Booms in record sales returned after World War II as standards changed from 78s to vinyl long play records, which could contain an entire symphony, and 45s which usually contained one hit popularized on the radio, plus another song on the back or " flip " side.

During the Vietnam War, Korean War, and World War II, the Purple Heart was often awarded on the spot, with occasional entries made into service records, but this was often not the case.

In such cases, requestors asking for a Purple Heart ( especially from records of the First World War ) are provided with a complete copy of all available records ( or reconstructed records in the case of the 1973 fire ) and advised that the Purple Heart may be privately purchased if the requestor feels it is warranted.

In the Well World series by Jack L. Chalker, the computer Obie had the ability to adjust the equations of the universe and any changes made could be retconned so that all records would adjust so that even very odd things could be made logical.

Early in the second book, a woman is changed into a centaur, and the records of her birth as a genetic experiment were automatically created by the Well World to explain the change and keep things balanced.

There also exist very few records of the Auxiliary SS since, at the time of this group's creation, it was a foregone conclusion that Germany had lost the Second World War and the entire purpose of the Auxiliary SS was to serve in support roles while members of the SS proper escaped from allied forces.

They have won 21 National League pennants and appeared in 18 World Series competitions – both records in the National League ( tied for NL pennants with the Los Angeles Dodgers and for World Series appearances with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals ).

They have played each other fairly evenly, despite differences that range from league, style of play, stadium, payroll, fan base stereotypes, media coverage, and World Series records — all of which have heightened the rivalry in recent years.

If there were any early expeditions to the site, the records were likely to have been lost during the subsequent chaotic years — World War I, the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War.

The World Bank estimates that only about 36 percent of the Honduran population had access to electricity ( 20 percent of the rural population ) in 1987.

In 2007 electricity production rose to 70 TWh, and exports reached 64 TWh which put Paraguay in second place worldwide as an exporter of electrical power ( And in the first place as a net exporter since France, the Number one exporter in the World with 67 TWh, also imports 10 TWh, while Paraguay does not import any ).

The World Bank reports that electricity is now in large part supplied by local businesses, using generators purchased abroad.

In January 2003, the Zambian Government informed the International Monetary Fund and World Bank that it wished to renegotiate some of the agreed performance criteria calling for privatization of the Zambia National Commercial Bank and the national telephone and electricity utilities.

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 ).

Spokane's situation improved with the start of World War II as aluminum production was initiated in Spokane due to the area's inexpensive electricity and the increased demand for airplanes.

The HIPC programme has been subject to conditionalities similar to those often attached to International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and World Bank loans, requiring structural adjustment reforms, sometimes including the privatisation of public utilities, including water and electricity.

Following the Second World War, cheap electricity from nearby Niagara Falls and better transportation access due to the new ( 1939 ) Queen Elizabeth Way encouraged both light industry and families to move to Burlington.

During World War II before the National Grid was fully developed, it was connected to two independent public electricity generation stations: Portishead power station ( now demolished ) and Shepton Mallet power station.

f4d1217bad </ nowiki > or try is. gd / urynO9 </ ref > 2010 data from the World Wind Energy Association, an industry organization states that wind power now has the capacity to generate 430 TWh annually, which is about 2. 5 % of worldwide electricity usage.

On the 1980 British Television series Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, Egyptologist Arne Eggebrecht created a voltaic cell using a jar filled with grape juice, to produce half a volt of electricity, demonstrating for the programme that jars used this way could electroplate a silver statuette in two hours, using a gold cyanide solution.

Campbelltown became the first country town in New South Wales to have piped water in 1888 and in the period between the World Wars, a local power station was built to supply electricity to residents.

After World War II, the growing demand for electricity sparked interest in constructing another power plant supported by the Grand Coulee Dam.

The dam's powerhouse began production around the time World War II began, and its electricity was vital to the war effort.

In the three decades following the Second World War, the Hydro Board's teams of planners, engineers, architects and labourers succeeded in creating an epic succession of electricity generation and distribution schemes that were world-renowned not only for successfully achieving their technical aims in very demanding terrain but for often doing so in an aesthetically inspiring manner.

The Act was intended to save electricity for seven months of the year, during World War I. DST was repealed in 1919 over a Presidential veto, but standard time in time zones remained in law, with the Interstate Commerce Commission ( ICC ) having the authority over time zone boundaries.

During World War II, Newcastle was subject to bombing raids and Taylor was evacuated to Penrith where he lived in a house without either running water or mains electricity.

Stewie threatens to turn off all the electricity in the world until Stan and Bullock fulfill his demands of being " President of the World ", which they do.

The early twentieth century saw a period of increased urbanization of the area ; in the period from the First World War to 1937, 312 council houses were built, and public services, such as electricity supplies and sewerage, were completed.

Apart from the creation of the orchestra pit suggested by Verdi in 1872, the installation of electricity in 1890, the subsequent abolition of the central chandelier and the construction of the new foyer and a new wing for dressing rooms, the theatre underwent no substantial changes until the bombing of the Second World War in 1943.

Even before its dedication, Shasta Dam served an important role in World War II providing electricity to California factories, and still plays a vital part in the management of state water resources today.

Hydroelectricity was not the primary goal of the project, but during World War II the demand for electricity in the region boomed.

According to a May 24, 2004 World Bank memorandum, 4 % of the inhabitants of Arsi have access to electricity, this zone has a road density of 45. 0 kilometers per 1000 square kilometers ( compared to the national average of 30 kilometers ), the average rural household has 1. 2 hectare of land ( compared to the national average of 1. 01 hectare of land and an average of 1. 14 for the Oromia Region ) and the equivalent of 1. 1 heads of livestock.

* Constantin Perskyi, " Television by means of electricity ", from the International World Fair of 1900, International Congress of Electricity ( Paris, August 18 – 25, 1900 ), reported under the authority of Mr. E. Hospitalier, General Reporter, Gauthier-Villars, printer and publisher, Paris, 1901.