The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to countries for development projects. It has the goal of reducing poverty and supporting sustainable development. It is made up of two institutions, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Development Association. The World Bank provides low or no interest loans, credits, and grants to developing countries for projects focused on areas like education, health, infrastructure, agriculture and the environment. It generates funds mainly through bond sales and uses the funds to provide both investment and policy loans to countries.
The power point slide is about International development association. All the information it consist has been taken from the IDA website and Wikipedia..
Introduction to IMF, The Bretton Woods Agreement, Objectives of IMF, Functions of IMF, Members of IMF, Governance and Organizational Structure of IMF, Resources of Funds, Application of Funds by IMF, Advantages to India from IMF.
The power point slide is about International development association. All the information it consist has been taken from the IDA website and Wikipedia..
Introduction to IMF, The Bretton Woods Agreement, Objectives of IMF, Functions of IMF, Members of IMF, Governance and Organizational Structure of IMF, Resources of Funds, Application of Funds by IMF, Advantages to India from IMF.
Finance for Development course is a very thoughtful, in depth and elaborate one within given time frame of just 4 weeks. I would like to highlight Millennium Development Goals, Sustainable Development Goals , Role of Multilateral Developmental Banks and functions of some of the World Bank Group entities.
INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT (IBRD) ®IONAL DEVEL...Aman Dwivedi
INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT (IBRD)
&
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANK
(RDB)
FUNCTIONS OF IBRD
ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE
WORLD BANK GROUP
ACTIVITIES BY IBRD
IBRD SERVICES
BIGGEST GLOBAL CHALLENGES FOR IBRD
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANK (RDB)
OTHER FOCUS AREAS
PURPOSE OF REGIONAL DEVELPOMENT BANKS
AREAS OF WORK
ROLE OF RDB’S IN INDIA
SOME RDB PARTICIPATING BANK IN INDIA
WTO & Trade Issues - International Financial Institutions.pptxDiksha Vashisht
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization that promotes global economic growth and financial stability, encourages international trade, and reduces poverty. Quotas of member countries are a key determinant of the voting power in IMF decisions.
Votes comprise one vote per 100,000 special drawing right (SDR) of quota plus basic votes. SDRS are an international type of monetary reserve currency created by the IMF as a supplement to the existing money reserves of member countries.
This presentation deals with various theories of sales like AIDAS theory, Right set of circumstances theory, buying formula theory, behavioural equation theory. It also discusses the SPIN model of selling and details the Situation, Problem, Implication and Need Pay-off questions at the heart of SPIN Model. This presentation is useful for practicing professionals, professors and students teaching and studying undergraduate and post graduate courses in marketing and sales & distribution management of GGSIP University, University of Delhi and other universities
Personal selling process & Consumer BehaviourCitibank N.A.
This presentation deals with consumer buying model to give insights on consumer psychology. It defines personal selling and its nature and objectives. It further details the steps and techniques of personal selling process. And finally it differentiates between relationship selling and transactional selling
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
2. Introduction
The World Bank, established in 1944, is
headquartered in Washington, D.C
The World Bank is a vital source of financial
and technical assistance to developing
countries around the world.
Its mission is to fight poverty with passion
and professionalism for lasting results and
to help people help themselves and their
environment by providing resources,
sharing knowledge, building capacity and
forging partnerships in the public and
private sectors.
3. Overview
The World bank is made up of two unique
development institutions owned by 186 member
countries:
the
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IB
and the
International Development Association (IDA).
Each institution plays a different but collaborative
role in advancing the vision of inclusive and
sustainable globalization. The IBRD aims to reduce
poverty in middle-income and creditworthy poorer
countries, while IDA focuses on the world's poorest
countries.
4. Overview
It provides low-interest loans, interest-free
credits and grants to developing countries
for various purposes that include
ii. investments in education,
iii. health,
iv. public administration,
v. infrastructure,
vi. financial and private sector development,
vii. agriculture,
viii. environmental and natural resource
management.
5. Organization
Its 186 member countries are shareholders.
The shareholders are represented by a
Board of Governors, who are the ultimate policy
makers at the World Bank.
Generally, the governors are member countries'
ministers of finance.
They meet once a year at the Annual Meetings of the
Boards of Governors.
France, Germany, Japan, U. K and the United States
are five largest shareholders
The President of the World Bank is Robert B.
Zoellick.
6. Members
Total member countries in each institution:
The International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (IBRD): 186
The International Development Association (IDA):
169
The International Finance Corporation (IFC):182
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
(MIGA): 175
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment
Disputes (ICSID): 144
7. Operations
The World Bank's two closely affiliated
entities—the (IBRD) and the (IDA)—provide
low or no interest loans (credits) and
grants to countries that have unfavorable
or no access to international credit
markets.
It does not operate for profit. The IBRD is
market-based, and it uses its high credit
rating to pass the low interest it pays for
money on to its borrowers—developing
countries.
8. Fund Generation
IBRD lending to developing countries
is primarily financed by
selling AAA-rated bonds in the world's
financial markets. While IBRD earns a
small margin on this lending, the
greater proportion of its income
comes from lending out its own
capital.
9. Loans
Through the IBRD and IDA, we offer two
basic types of loans and credits:
investment operations: Countries use
investment operations for goods, works
and services in support of economic and
social development projects in a broad
range of economic and social sectors.
development policy operations:
Development policy operations (formerly
known as adjustment loans) provide quick-
disbursing financing to support a country’s
policy and institutional reforms.
10. Trust funds and grants
Donor governments and a broad array of private and public
institutions make deposits in Trust funds that are housed at the
World Bank.
These donor resources are leveraged for a broad range of
development initiatives, varying significantly in size and
complexity, ranging from multibillion dollar arrangements—such as
Carbon Finance; the Global Environment Facility; the Heavily
Indebted Poor Countries Initiative; and the Global Fund to Fight
AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria—to much smaller and simpler
freestanding ones.
IDA grants are used to:
Relieve the debt burden of heavily indebted poor countries
Improve sanitation and water supplies
Support vaccination and immunization programs to reduce the
incidence of communicable diseases like malaria
Combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic
Support civil society organizations
Create initiatives to cut the emission of greenhouse gases
11. Analytical & advisory services:
It provides analysis, advice and information to member countries through:
economic research and data collection on broad issues such as the
environment, poverty, trade and globalization;
country-specific, non-lending activities such as economic and sector work,
where it evaluates a country's economic prospects by examining its banking
systems and financial markets, trade, infrastructure and poverty.
It draws upon the resources like wealth of contacts, knowledge, information
and experience to educate clients so they can equip themselves to solve
their development problems and promote economic growth.
Its analyses, advice and knowledge are made available to client countries,
their government and development professionals, and the public through
Poverty Assessments
Public Expenditure Reviews
Country Economic Reports
Sector Reports
Topics in Development
12. Capacity building
Another core Bank function is to increase the capabilities of our
partners, the people in developing countries, and its own staff. It
has set up linkages to knowledge-sharing networks like:
Advisory Services and Ask Us help desks make information available by
topic via telephone, fax, email and the web.
Global Development Learning Network is an extensive network of
distance learning centers that uses advanced information and
communications technologies to connect people working in
development around the world.
Knowledge for Development offers policy advice to client countries on
economic and institutional regime, education, innovation, and
information and communication technologies (ICTs)
Capacity Development Resource Center is a repository of literature,
case studies, lessons learned.
B-SPAN is an Internet-based broadcasting station. The station presents
World Bank seminars, workshops and conferences on sustainable
development and poverty reduction via streaming video.
13. Key Activities
poverty reduction and the sustainable growth in the
poorest countries, especially in Africa;
solutions to the special challenges of
post-conflict countries and fragile states;
development solutions with customized services as
well as financing for middle-income countries;
regional and global issues that cross national
borders--climate change, infectious diseases, and
trade;
greater development and opportunity in the
Arab world;
pulling together the best global knowledge to support
development.