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On December 9, 1966, Kennedy, together with Mayor Lindsay and Senator Javits, announced his anti-poverty program at New York Public School 305. [15] He told the audience, "The program for the development of Bedford–Stuyvesant will combine the best of community action with the best of the private enterprise system.
Since 2003, the Badr Brigade and SCIRI were considered to be one party, but have recently unofficially separated [30] with the Badr Organization now being an official Iraqi political party. Badr Brigade forces, and their Iranian commanders, have come to prominence in 2014 fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Iraq. [31]
The man charged with auditing the Iraq reconstruction finds he's fighting his own kind of war, Esquire, November 30, 2006; Report cites reconstruction progress, but also problems, USA Today, October 30, 2007; In Ramadi, Real Rebuilding, With Fresh Paint, New York Times, November 22, 2008
Jean Lemierre (born 6 June 1950) is a French former public servant who was the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 2000 to 2008. He is now chairman of BNP Paribas. [1] [2] [3]
An article in the New York Times describes "irregularities including millions of reconstruction dollars stuffed casually into footlockers and filing cabinets, an American soldier in the Philippines who gambled away cash belonging to Iraq, and three Iraqis who plunged to their deaths in a rebuilt hospital elevator that had been improperly ...
J. Steven Dowd is an American businessman who served as the United States Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Prior to assuming his EBRD role, he was United States Director of the African Development Bank. Previous to his government service, Dowd co-founded Ag Source, LLC, a global logistics, trading, and ...
The Company for the Reconstruction and Development of the Jewish Quarter (Hebrew: החברה לשיקום ולפיתוח הרובע היהודי) is a state-owned enterprise established in 1968 to restore the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem and develop it to become a national, religious, historical, and cultural site. In the 1980s ...
In 2016, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and BRICs New Development Bank began operations. [18] Like other multilateral development banks, (MDBs), the IBRD has a preferred credit treatment (PCT), through which borrowers grant the MDBs a "privileged position to be first in line for repayment, should a country face financial restrictions."