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the long standing powers of the North, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States come to mind, but the GDP of Brazil, China, and India equal that of the Northern superpowers . These emerging countries are showing the world that they deserve the spotlight by being the cornerstone economic development in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The emerging powers - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa -came together and formed the diplomatic to form BRICS. The aim of

10: Public opposition to the plant in Kosovo presents a material risk. Public objections have been raised to four specific impacts of the New Kosovo Power Plant. First, the forced displacement of Kosovo residents and the potential violation of World Bank development standards remains an ongoing and major public controversy. Second, residents have raised questions of air quality deterioration in Kosovo that would be caused by burning lignite with outmoded technology. Third, Kosovo’s reliance upon

The World Bank Bureaucracy is one of the pillars of modern western society. Although this statement is debatable from many aspects, most would agree that, at the very least, our lives are greatly affected by bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is the 'pure form of rational organization' (Newson, Jan 11). Not only is it a method for achieving goals efficiently and effectively, but it is acclaimed as the most able strategy to meet objectives. The World Bank is a classic example of a bureaucratic organization

It was a sunny Monday morning in Badia West, Lagos. I was manning the emergency room that day when a group of young men brought in a man in his twenties who was severely injured. He was beaten to near comatose by the police for protesting the demolition of his father’s house. While resuscitating him and suturing his wounds, I learned firsthand the horrors that besieged the peaceful protests of the Badia East residents which turned violent. Indeed, people where thrown out of their homes, with little

To what extent do organizations like the IMF, WTO, and World Bank challenge the nation state’s ability to shape domestic economic and social policy? This should not be a paper about the history of these organizations. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the General Agreements on Trades and Tariffs(GATT), which turn into the World Trade Organization(WTO), are the main organizations that deal with the stability of the global economy. They have done this but promoting

The HIPC Initiative By HSvB “The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) are a group of 38 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”. The HIPC Initiative was initiated by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in 1996. In 2001 Ghana declared itself as heavily indebted poor country, according to the then president John Agyekum Kuffour, the decision of Ghana to

Intro: What is universal health coverage? As defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), the primary advocate, universal health coverage (UHC) is defined as “ensuring that all people can use the promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative health services they need, of sufficient quality to be effective, while also ensuring that the use of these services does not expose the user to financial hardship,” ("What is universal coverage?"). To put this formal definition in laymen’s

Lack of development in countries in the so-called `Third World' has many political and economical reasons. Historians explain the inadequacy of developing countries with the early imperialism and the resulting colonization of the South. Exploitation of mineral resources, deforestation, slavery, and the adaptation of foreign policies shaped the picture of today's suffering and struggling civilizations and natural rich continents. The omission of concessions and equal negotiations between dependency

happens to be one of many developing countries in the world. “Sierra Leone won its independence in the year of 1961” (Wiki,2015) “The population of Sierra Leone is 6.092 million people as of 2013”(World Bank, 2015). With a low income level as well, Sierra Leone’s GDP is 4.136 billion calculated in U.S currency (World Bank). Because of the country being in a low state financially, international lending institutions such as the World Bank and IMF which stands for International Monetary Fund have

effects of the projects they support and if those people were beneficiaries. Based on what I read, the IMF and the World Bank are good organizations. The purpose of them it's to prevent economies crises and when they were founded, help to rebuild economies affected because of war. However, I found one project on the internet shows the opposite. The support for this project from World Bank gave was indirect because one of its own organizations, the International Finance Corp provided loans to an American