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The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, [1] including the construction of public buildings and roads.
The Five Fingers of Tibet (Chinese: 西藏的五指; pinyin: Xīzàng de wǔzhǐ) was a Chinese territorial claim to the Himalayan region bordering India attributed to Mao Zedong. It considers Tibet to be China's right hand palm, with five fingers on its periphery: Ladakh , Nepal , Sikkim , Bhutan , and North-East Frontier Agency (now known as ...
[2] [4] The CRA is generally seen as a competitor to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and along with the New Development Bank is viewed as an example of increasing South-South cooperation. [2] The CRA's "liquidity instrument" is the central bank liquidity swap. When a borrowing country ("Requesting Party") requests to draw funds, the ...
Aśvaghoṣa was previously believed to have been the author of the influential East Asian Buddhist text named The Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana (Chinese: 大乘起信論; pinyin: Dàshéng Qǐxìn Lùn), but modern scholars agree that the text was composed in China. [22] [23] Another text ascribed to Aśvaghoṣa is Vajrasuchi, an ...
Ancient Chinese text on bamboo strips. Old Chinese is by far the oldest recorded Sino-Tibetan language, with inscriptions dating from around 1250 BC and a huge body of literature from the first millennium BC. However, the Chinese script is logographic and does not represent sounds systematically; it is therefore difficult to reconstruct the ...
The Cross-border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) is a Chinese payment system that offers clearing and settlement services for its participants in cross-border renminbi (RMB) payments and trade. CIPS is backed by the People's Bank of China and was launched in 2015 as part of a policy effort to internationalize the use of China’s currency.
On India’s Coast, A Power Plant Backed By The World Bank Group Threatens A Way Of Life A woman washes dishes at Kutadi Bandar, a seasonal fishing community located next to the Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project’s intake channel.
WPA, a 2009 album by Works Progress Administration (band); Win probability added, a baseball statistic; Water pinch analysis; Woomera Prohibited Area, a tract of land in South Australia covering more than 120,000 sq km of arid 'outback'