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Parent topics
- Millennium Development Goals [r]: A set of measurable objectives, adopted by the United Nations, for the reduction of global poverty and other world problems [e]
- International economics [r]: The study of the patterns and consequences of transactions and interactions between the inhabitants of different countries, including trade, investment and migration. [e]
- Foreign assistance [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- Poverty elimination [r]: A program of international organizations and industrialized states, to eliminate poverty as a significant element of Highly Indebted Poor Countries, weak states, and failed states [e]
- Agency for International Development [r]: Add brief definition or description
- World Bank [r]: Collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and its affiliates: the International Finance Corporation, organized in 1950 to provide long-term project financing to developing countries; and the International Development Association, formed in 1960 to make long-term loans at low interest rates. [e]
- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development [r]: A division of the World Bank, which makes loans to medium-income country and produces world statistics on income [e]
- International Development Association [r]: Complementing the World Bank's International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), this organization, established in 1960, makes interest-free loans and grants to the world's poorest countries, as part of poverty elimination [e]
- Iraq War [r]: (2003-2011) Invasion and occupation of Iraq by a coalition of countries led by the U.S. to depose Saddam Hussein, who was accused of stockpiling weapons of mass destruction (which were never found). [e]
- Rwanda [r]: A small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of central Africa. [e]
- Millenium Challenge Act [r]: United States enabling legislation for carrying out activities related to the UN Millennium Development Goals [e]
- U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations [r]: U.S. Senate committee responsible for foreign policy, oversight of foreign policy agencies, and diplomatic nominations and treaties [e]