Sentences with phrase «nations and the world bank»

BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Only nine countries have achieved a U.N. development goal of reducing the number of women dying before, during or after giving birth by 75 % since 1990, the United Nations and the World Bank said on Thursday.

The United Nations and the World Bank are part of the same totalitarian, one - world government that merged from the ruins of the Second World War and began turning the sciences into tools of propaganda to control people, exactly as George Orwell warned might happen in the futuristic novel he wrote in 1948, Nineteen Eighty - Four («1984»):

Just weeks ago, the United Nations and World Bank lobbied for spending $ 600 billion to $ 800 billion a year on «sustainable energy» to replace oil and gas.

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Australia's big four banks and one insurance company have been ranked within the top 100 most sustainable companies in the world, with Commonwealth Bank of Australia leading the charge for the nation.

Cutmore covers the biggest business gatherings for CNBC including the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos and China, the IMF / World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington, D.C. and the United Nations Climate Change Conferences.

And with looming leadership changes at organizations key to global health and development aid — the heads of the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the World Bank — malaria champions say the risk of setbacks is unnerviAnd with looming leadership changes at organizations key to global health and development aid — the heads of the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the World Bank — malaria champions say the risk of setbacks is unnerviand development aid — the heads of the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the World Bank — malaria champions say the risk of setbacks is unnerviand Malaria, and the World Bank — malaria champions say the risk of setbacks is unnerviand the World Bank — malaria champions say the risk of setbacks is unnerving.

The United Nations Population Division and Goldman Sachs recently reported that by 2030 China would have about 1.4 billion members of what the World Bank defines as the middle class, compared to 365 million in the U.S. and 414 million in western Europe.

India's GDP is currently valued around $ 2 trillion as of 2014, according to the World Bank, and the Indian government - created policy think tank Niti Aayog projects the nation's economy will hit $ 10 trillion in 2032.

That power squarely rests with oil - rich nations that hold most of the world's oil reserves and the Wall Street banks and hedge funds that speculate and make markets in the oil trading game.

The country, which hasn't sold bonds abroad since the default, has settled arbitration cases at the World Bank, paid Spanish oil company Repsol SA for the expropriation of YPF SA and negotiated with the Paris Club of creditor nations.

They include: - The United Nations, The World Bank, Australian Federal Government, Australian Local Government, Police, Prisoner Transport, Major Australian Banks, Major Logistics and Transport Organisations, and Mining, Oil & Gas companies.

Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait's CEO, Michel Accad, opens up about his country's economic role in the Arab world and why the Gulf nation might never achieve all its lofty aspirations.

Sources: A.M. Best Rating Services; Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Bloomberg News; CIA World Factbook; Control Risks; Daily Nation; GOV.UK travel advice; International Monetary Fund; Oxford Business Group; Transparency International; World Bank

«The distance between public mood and public movement is the same as that between reason and rage» - Winston Churchill Every major nation in the world has jailed corrupt banking executives.

He began his career as an economic researcher and policy consultant with the Fraser Institute, World Bank and United Nations.

The new world order is basically a social change that is happening right now because of: the advent of networking and networking communications, the degree of inequality that is starting to surface across the developed worlds, the richer getting richer and the poorer getting poorer, and a number of other factors that we'll get into, but it's changing the forms governance, it is going to change the forms of institutions that haven't changed since the Breton Woods at the end of the Second World War which were predominantly US - based institutions if you would: IMF, World Bank in Washington, the United Nations in New world order is basically a social change that is happening right now because of: the advent of networking and networking communications, the degree of inequality that is starting to surface across the developed worlds, the richer getting richer and the poorer getting poorer, and a number of other factors that we'll get into, but it's changing the forms governance, it is going to change the forms of institutions that haven't changed since the Breton Woods at the end of the Second World War which were predominantly US - based institutions if you would: IMF, World Bank in Washington, the United Nations in New World War which were predominantly US - based institutions if you would: IMF, World Bank in Washington, the United Nations in New World Bank in Washington, the United Nations in New York.

The G20 includes the G7 nations, the European Union, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the following Asia Pacific countries: Australia, China, India and South Korea.

Since leaving office, Mr. Martin and the former President of Mozambique, Joaquim Chissano, co-chaired a high level panel responsible for submitting a report on a new strategic vision for the African Development Bank, following upon an earlier United Nations panel report on private sector investment in the Third World of which he co-chaired with former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo.

As it became clear that the ideas of development advocated by Third World nations in the UN General Assembly involved some shift of power from the industrial nations to developing ones, the United States moved the power to act in this field away from the United Nations to the IMF and the Worlnations in the UN General Assembly involved some shift of power from the industrial nations to developing ones, the United States moved the power to act in this field away from the United Nations to the IMF and the Worlnations to developing ones, the United States moved the power to act in this field away from the United Nations to the IMF and the WorlNations to the IMF and the World Bank.

Immediately after World War II, the acknowledged disparity in the wealth of nations led to the establishment of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund; it was then widely assumed that the so - called developing countries could be brought up to some sort of parity with the developed countries by lending money and promoting economic growth.

Alongside the United Nations, which was formed as an international organization, new global economic institutions were brought into being at Bretton Woods: the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Most of the royals no longer rule outright (as in control of nations) But through power, money and influence control behind the scenes, including oil, banks, realestate, and world trade and shipping.

On the international level he is encouraged by shifts within the World Bank (such as the hiring of Herman Daly) toward more ecologically viable programs; the spread of vital information through organizations like the World Resources Institute and the Worldwatch Institute and through various United Nations programs; world conferences on the future of the living species; and even stirrings among national and multinational business corporatWorld Bank (such as the hiring of Herman Daly) toward more ecologically viable programs; the spread of vital information through organizations like the World Resources Institute and the Worldwatch Institute and through various United Nations programs; world conferences on the future of the living species; and even stirrings among national and multinational business corporatWorld Resources Institute and the Worldwatch Institute and through various United Nations programs; world conferences on the future of the living species; and even stirrings among national and multinational business corporatworld conferences on the future of the living species; and even stirrings among national and multinational business corporations.

Depending on whom you ask, the agents of globalization vary widely: multinational corporations like General Motors, Nike and Coca - Cola (the largest employer in sub-Saharan Africa); the United Nations and the thousands of nongovernmental organizations; the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization; or CNN and Disney.

The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

The World Bank and the IMF required debtor nations to open up their economies to transnational corporations as a condition of assisting them to avoid bankruptcy.

The repudiation of odious debts would be an act of independence by the debtor nations that could greatly decrease the power of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to shape their economies for the sake of greater profits and power for transnational corporations.

However, the «forgiveness» of debts of the poorest countries, now being touted by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, is based on conditions that enslave the nation further.

When smaller nations resist, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank impose structural adjustment policies upon them on pain of their total exclusion from the international economic system.

Nevertheless, this is the kind of development to which the industrialized nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization are committed.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

But the computers, data banks, terminals, programs, and software of multinationals provide them with the power to move money, labor, parts, and natural resources in ways to emphasize profits without consideration of the welfare of any nation, especially the new Third World nations and their peoples.

Organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have been formed by the powerful nation states to foster globalization.

For example, a major international bank located in New York can keep watch on crops and shipping, the mining of resources, weather developments, and many other aspects of business in most of the nations of the world — daily, hourly — right from their offices in Manhattan.

Mr. A. H. Boerma, General Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, is calling upon the world to set aside 15 % of the annual grain yield in a global food bank for emergency use to prevent starvation.

To insure equity and freedom in aid programs it is desirable to utilize such cooperative international agencies as the World Bank, instead of one nation's contributing directly to other nations.

Powerful institutions like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization raise the TINA, argument to persuade the developing nations to qualify themselves to borrow money.

These were supported by the great Bretton Woods Institutions, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and the structural adjustment they imposed on debtor nations all over the wWorld Bank and the International Monetary Fund and the structural adjustment they imposed on debtor nations all over the worldworld.

There is the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations Development Program, the African Development Bank, the United Nations Conference and Trade and Development, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund, and, of course, the World Trade Organization.

We catch glimpses, however, of how Jesus» teachings could provide a new way for us to live together: in the U.S. Marshall Plan's assistance to former enemies following World War II; in the recent work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa; in the World Bank's partial forgiveness of the debts of poor nations at the urging of church coalitions.

Pushed incessantly by figures like the World Bank's McNamara, the idea that nations could become rich only if they moved to control their population rates became an article of faith among Western and Western - educated intellectuals in Asia — a faith backed up by aid dollars linked to the willingness of recipient countries to develop control measures.

By 2004, a World Bank report, «Coffee Markets: New Paradigms in Global Supply and Demand» substantiated that structural shifts in the global industry of coffee will likely hinder significant advances for many producing nations to more equitably participate in what is the world's most valuable agricultural trade proWorld Bank report, «Coffee Markets: New Paradigms in Global Supply and Demand» substantiated that structural shifts in the global industry of coffee will likely hinder significant advances for many producing nations to more equitably participate in what is the world's most valuable agricultural trade proworld's most valuable agricultural trade product.

The grant comes from the Global Environmental Facility, an independent financial organization established in 1990 by the World Bank, the United Nations Environment Program, and the United Nations Development Program.

Multinationals, argues Horgan, are a vast bank of information on the policies of other nations: «The typical Chinese approach to policy making is to look around the world for best practices in policy in a particular field, and then to cherry pick those that seem to apply the most neatly in the Chinese environment.»

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund, born in the post-war world at Bretton Woods, were conceived by our two nations working togeWorld Bank and International Monetary Fund, born in the post-war world at Bretton Woods, were conceived by our two nations working togeworld at Bretton Woods, were conceived by our two nations working together.

I will expand upon this notion in this blog, referring to what Cameroonian scholar Achille Mbembe describes as the barter economy within the cash economy that has developed in many African nations following the social and economic transformations that accompanied the 1980s World Bank - imposed structural adjustment programs.

This project looks at the ways in which peacebuilding organisations (such as the United Nations, NATO, the World Bank, and others) understand the elements of a stable peace and what it requires.

Few days after taking over, the United Nations cautioned Ghana about hooliganism and vigilantism, the world bank continue to downgrade us, corruption has increased according to Transparency International's latest report, Ghana has been rated down by Amnesty International because of brutalities being unleashed on journalists, investors are leaving our shores etc..

This is Mike Bloomberg we are talking about — a man who has wanted to be president since his college years, when he told friends at Johns Hopkins that he was interested in three jobs: secretary general of the United Nations, head of the World Bank and president of the United States.