International Monetary Fund The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization that oversees the global financial system by following the macroeconomic policies of its member countries, in particular those with an impact on exchange rates and the balance of payments. It is an organization formed to stabilize international exchange rates and facilitate development. It also offers highly leveraged loans mainly to poorer countries. Its headquarters are located in Washington, D.C., USA. International_Monetary_Fund
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
Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) are a group of 37 developing countries with high levels of poverty and debt overhang which are eligible for special assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. Heavily_Indebted_Poor_Countries
Global governance Global governance is the political interaction of transnational actors aimed at solving problems that affect more than one state or region when there is no power of enforcing compliance. The question of world governance arises in the context of what is known as globalization. In response to the acceleration of interdependencies on a worldwide scale, both between human societies and between humanity and the biosphere, world governance defines the elaboration of regulations on the same global scale. Global_governance
Forum des peuples Forum des peuples is an annual demonstration organized since 2002 in Mali by the Coalition des alternatives africaines dettes et développement (CAD-Mali) joining together the alter-globalists of the developing countries.Joined together at the same time as the G8-summits, the Forum des peuples wants to be a neo-liberal universe.The first two editions were held in Siby in 2002 and 2003. Forum_des_peuples
François-Xavier Verschave François-Xavier Verschave (October 28, 1945, Lille, France — June 29, 2005, Villeurbanne, France) was primarily known as one of the founders of the French NGO Survie ("Survival"), over which he presided since 1995, and as coiner of the term Françafrique, an expression designating the specific form of neocolonialism which has been endured by the former French Colonies. François-Xavier_Verschave
Agreement on German External Debts London Agreement on German External Debts also known as the London Agreement, was a debt relief treaty between the Federal Republic of Germany on one part and on Belgium, Canada, Ceylon, Denmark, the French Republic, Greece, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Norway, Pakistan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Union of South Africa, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America, and Yugoslavia on the other, signed on 8 August or 27 February 1953 (mixed sources). Agreement_on_German_External_Debts