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Parent topics
- Economics [r]: The analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. [e]
- Financial system [r]: The interactive system of organisations that serve as intermediaries between lenders and borrowers. [e]
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Leaders
Present
- Robert Zoellick [r]: President of the World Bank; previously Vice Chairman, International of the Goldman Sachs Group, Managing Director, and Chairman of Goldman Sachs' Board of International Advisors from 2006-07; Deputy Secretary of the U.S. State Department (2005-06), United States Trade Representative 2001-2005; Former Research Scholar, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 1999-2000 [e]
Past
- Jessica Einhorn [r]: Dean, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; board member, Center for Global Development; former managing director, vice president and treasurer of the World Bank; former visiting fellow at the International Monetary Fund; formerly served as director of the Council on Foreign Relations [e]
- Paul Wolfowitz [r]: An American political scientist and policy-level foreign affairs official, of a neoconservative ideology; resident American Enterprise Institute and on International Security Advisory Board; Deputy Secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush Administration; advisor, Project for the New American Century [e]
- Robert McNamara [r]: A specialist in quantitative management who became president of the Ford Motor Company, but was quickly nominated as Secretary of Defense, becoming a major architect of policy, especially for the Vietnam War, in the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations. [e]
- Financial Stability Forum [r]: An international economic group consisting of representatives of national financial authorities including finance ministers, central bankers, and senior members of other financial organisations. [e]
- Globalization [r]: The interaction of peoples, cultures, and businesses worldwide, which tend to overcome traditional national and cultural boundaries [e]
- Washington Consensus [r]: An interpretation of the conditions required by the International Monetary Fund for financial assistance to developing countries. [e]
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- Bhutan [r]: Landlocked constitutional republic in the Himalayan Mountains. [e]
- Elbridge Durbrow [r]: (1904-1997) United States of America Ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam (1957 - 1961), career diplomat and Foreign Service Officer. [e]
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- Foreign internal defense [r]: The United States military doctrine for assisting Host Nations in their counterinsurgency programs [e]
- Ganga [r]: a major river system in the Indian subcontinent, sacred to Hindus [e]
- Georgia (country) [r]: A country in the Caucasus to the southeast of Continental Europe and at the east coast of the Black Sea. [e]
- Global justice [r]: Topic in political philosophy arising from the concern that humans do not live in a just world. [e]
- Great Depression [r]: the severe downturn in economic activity that started in 1929 in Germany and the United States and affected many other countries. [e]
- Indigenous knowledge [r]: Local-level accumulated knowledge that does not originate in academic or corporate research institutions, inherited in situ through tradition and culture. [e]
- Joseph E. Stiglitz [r]: (1943 -) shared the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics "for laying the foundations for the theory of markets with asymmetric information"; board of sponsors, Federation of American Scientists [e]
- Kenya [r]: A country of 38 million in East Africa. [e]
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- Latin America [r]: The region of the Americas that shares a common tradition and historical heritage of European colonization, mostly Iberian. [e]
- Norwegian Institute for Air Research [r]: A private Norwegian research institute that is one of the leading specialized scientific institutes in Europe dealing solely with problems related to air pollution. [e]
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