| Anti-globalization movement The anti-globalization movement is critical of the globalization of capitalism. Participants base their criticisms on a number of related ideas. What is shared is that participants stand in opposition to the unregulated political power of large, multi-national corporations and to the powers exercised through trade agreements. Anti-globalization_movement
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| Asian Development Bank The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established in 1966 to promote economic and social development in Asian and Pacific countries through loans and technical assistance. It is a multilateral development financial institution owned by 67 members (as of 2 February 2007), 48 from the region and 19 from other parts of the globe. Asian_Development_Bank
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| World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides leveraged loans to developing countries for capital programs with the stated goal of reducing poverty. The World Bank differs from the World Bank Group, in that the World Bank comprises only two institutions International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) International Development Association (IDA) World_Bank
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| International Bank for Reconstruction and Development International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) is World Bank Group. The IBRD is an international organization whose original mission was to finance the reconstruction of nations devastated by World War II. Now, its mission has expanded to fight poverty by means of financing states. International_Bank_for_Reconstruction_and_Development
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| World Bank Group The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that makes leveraged loans, generally to poor countries. The Bank came into formal existence on 27 December 1945 following international ratification of the Bretton Woods agreements, which emerged from the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (1 July – 22 July 1944). World_Bank_Group
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| International Finance Corporation The International Finance Corporation (IFC) promotes sustainable private sector investment in developing countries as a way to reduce poverty and improve people's lives.IFC is a member of the World Bank Group and is headquartered in Washington, DC. It shares the primary objective of all World Bank Group institutions International_Finance_Corporation
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| European Bank for Reconstruction and Development European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) uses the tools of investment to help build market economies and democracies in 27 countries from central Europe to central Asia. Its mission was to support the formerly communist countries in the process of establishing their private sectors.Headquartered in London, the EBRD is owned by 61 countries and two intergovernmental institutions. European_Bank_for_Reconstruction_and_Development
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| Paul Wolfowitz Paul_Wolfowitz
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| Inter-American Development Bank The Inter-American Development Bank (preferred abbreviation IDB, although sometimes found as IADB), is an international organization established and headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, in 1959 to support Latin American and Caribbean economic and social development and regional integration by lending mainly to governments and government agencies, including State corporations. Inter-American_Development_Bank
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| Developing countries' debt Developing countries is external debt incurred by the governments of Third World countries, generally in quantities beyond the governments' political ability to repay. "Unpayable debt" is a term used to describe external debt when the interest on the debt exceeds what the country's politicians think they can collect from taxpayers, based on the nation's Gross domestic product, thus preventing the debt from ever being repaid. Developing_countries'_debt
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| Azerbaijani people The Azerbaijanis are an ethnic group mainly living in northwestern Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan. Commonly referred to as Azeris/Āzarīs (آذری - Azəri) or Azeri Turks (), they also live in a wider area from the Caucasus to the Iranian plateau. The Azeris are predominantly Shia Muslim and have a mixed heritage of Iranic, Caucasian, and Turkic elements.Despite living on two sides of an international border since the treaties of Gulistan (1813) and Turkmenchay (1828), after which Iran lost its then northern territories to Russia, the Azeris form a single ethnic group. Azerbaijani_people
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| Union of South American Nations Union_of_South_American_Nations
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| Shaha Riza Shaha Ali Riza, () (born 1953 or 1954), is a World Bank staffer who is currently on external assignment. She was forced to leave her position as Senior Communications Officer (and acting manager of external affairs) for the Middle East and North Africa Regional Office at the World Bank when Paul Wolfowitz was brought in as President. Shaha_Riza
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| Petroleum Revenue Oversight and Control Committee Petroleum Revenue Oversight and Control Committee or Collège de Contrôle et de Surveillance des Ressources Pétrolières is a Chadian government watchdog committee in charge of overseeing the government's use of petrol reserves and revenues.The committee is composed of one magistrate of the Supreme Court one Deputy one Senator General Director of the Treasury National Director of the Bank of the Central African States (BEAC) four representatives from civil society (one from a local NGO, one from a trade union, one from a human rights organization, and one representative of the major religious groups of Chad, Muslim and Christian), to alternate. Petroleum_Revenue_Oversight_and_Control_Committee
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| Inga Dam Inga Dams, located in western Democratic Republic of the Congo 140 miles southwest of Kinshasa, are hydroelectric dams on the largest waterfalls in the world, Inga Falls. Here the Congo River drops 96 metres and has an average flow of 42,476 m³/s. Inga_Dam
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| Multilateral development bank multilateral development bank (MDB) is an institution, created by a group of countries, that provides financing and professional advising for the purpose of development. MDBs have large memberships including both developed donor countries and developing borrower countries. MDBs finance projects in the form of long-term loans at market rates, very-long term loans (also known as credits) below market rates, and through grants. Multilateral_development_bank
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| African Development Bank The African Development Bank Group is a development bank established in 1964 with the intention of promoting economic and social development in Africa. The Group comprises the African Development Bank (AfDB), the African Development Fund (ADF), and the Nigeria Trust Fund (NTF). reduce poverty and promote sustainable development. African_Development_Bank
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| Inter-American Development Bank Talk:Inter-American_Development_Bank
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| Stem rust The stem, black or cereal rusts are caused by the fungus Puccinia graminis and are a significant disease affecting cereal crops. An epidemic of stem rust on wheat caused by race Ug99 is currently spreading across Africa, Asia and most recently into Middle East and is causing major concern and an increase of food riots and civil unrest, notably in West and Central Africa among the worst-hit countries. Stem_rust
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