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The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is an international financial institution that offers investment, advisory, and asset-management services to encourage private-sector development in less developed countries. The IFC is a member of the World Bank Group and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. in the United States.
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA or ADRA International) is a humanitarian agency operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church for the purpose of providing individual and community development and disaster relief. It was founded in 1956, and it is headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States.
USAID packages are delivered by United States Coast Guard personnel. Some of the U.S. government's earliest foreign aid programs provided relief in crises created by war. In 1915, U.S. government assistance through the Commission for Relief in Belgium headed by Herbert Hoover prevented starvation in Belgium after the German invasion.
Borland released a spreadsheet product, Quattro Pro, with a compatibility mode in which its menu imitated Lotus 1-2-3, a competing product.None of the source code or machine code that generated the menus was copied, but the names of the commands and the organization of those commands into a hierarchy were virtually identical.
British International Investment, (formerly CDC Group plc, Commonwealth Development Corporation, and Colonial Development Corporation) [2] is the development finance institution of the UK government. [3] The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is responsible for the organisation, and is the sole shareholder. [4]
From 1997, international development became the responsibility of the separate Department for International Development. When David Miliband took over as Foreign Secretary in June 2007, he set in hand a review of the FCO's strategic priorities. One of the key messages of these discussions was the conclusion that the existing framework of ten ...
International Social Security Review is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the International Social Security Association. It was established in 1967 and is published in English, French, German and Spanish. It includes studies of social security systems in different countries. [1]
Plaid, Inc. is an American financial services company based in San Francisco, California. The company builds a data transfer network that powers fintech and digital finance products. Plaid's product, a technology platform, enables applications to connect with users’ bank accounts. [ 3 ]