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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 and Poverty
* The Life You Can Save-Acting Now to End World Poverty
In 1968, after Martin Luther King Jr .' s death, Alston was asked to create another mural for the hospital to be placed in a pavilion named after the assassinated civil rights leader titled Man Emerging from the Darkness of Poverty and Ignorance into the Light of a Better World ".
* The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty.
* Bloggingheads. tv interview by economist Tyler Cowen on the book ; The Life You Can Save about Acting Now To End World Poverty
World Bank, 1997 World Development Indicators, p 52 ; Weisbrot et al., Poverty Rates in Venezuela ( CEPR, 2006 ); Venezuela, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Venezuela.
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty.
* The Promise of Microfinance for Poverty Relief in the Developing World
Five albums released in the 1990s: Holy Intellect, Pure Poverty, Black Business, Killing U For Fun and The New World Order ; three national and two world tours.
Major and tracks at Urbana 09 included International Students, Arts and Media, Advocacy and Poverty, Business as Mission, Evangelism, Jesus and Justice, The Mission of Healthcare, and The Church Around the World.
2000 ); Michael B. Katz, The People of Hamilton, Canada West ( 1976 ); Eric H. Monkkonen, The Dangerous Class: Crime and Poverty in Columbus Ohio 1860-1865 ( 1975 ); and Michael P. Weber, Social Change in an Industrial Town: Patterns of Progress in Warren, Pennsylvania, From Civil War to World War I.
For example, a charity working with the poor might have a vision statement which reads " A World without Poverty.
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism.
In 1996, he became Vice-President of the World Bank for the Middle East and North Africa Region, and in 2000, Vice-President for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management.
In the second position, he was responsible for the World Bank ’ s global programmes and policies to fight poverty and the development of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper ( PRSP ) initiative that had just been launched.
His other interests include Third World issues ; he is a member of Amnesty International and the Child Poverty Action Group.
The World Bank's Kosovo Poverty Assessment 2007 highlights that 45 percent of Kosovo's population is classified as " poor ", living on less than € 1. 42 per day, with a further 18 percent considered to be vulnerable to poverty.
* Uprooting World Poverty: A Job for Business, Business Horizons, Fall, 1964.
The Southern Poverty Law Center considers it a hate group and claims that it " carries stories on Zionism, secret ' New World Order ' conspiracies, American Jews and Israel.
In 1970, he published a companion book called The Challenge of World Poverty, where he laid out what he believed to be the chief policy solutions to the problems he outlined in Asian Drama.
* The Challenge of World Poverty: A World Anti-Poverty Program in Outline.
* Batra, Ravi, Progressive Utilization Theory: Prout-An Economic Solution to Poverty in The Third World, Manila: Ananda Marga Publications, 1989.
Back in the United States following the outbreak of World War II, Elliot Paul turned to screenwriting where in Hollywood, between 1941 and 1953, he participated in the writing of ten screenplays, the most remembered of which is the 1945 production, Rhapsody in Blue ; he also wrote the screenplay for the Poverty Row production of New Orleans, a fictional history of Storyville jazz featuring Billie Holiday in her only acting role.

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