ILO (International Labour Organization)

ILO (International Labour Organization)

HQ – Geneva, Founded 1919

World Social Protection Report

World Employment and Social Outlook

World of Work Report

Global Wage Report

The only tripartite U.N. agency, since 1919 the ILO brings together governments, employers and workers of 187 member States , to set labour standards, develop policies and devise programmes

promoting decent work for all women and men.

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Global Innovation Index

It is published by Cornell University, INSEAD, and the World Intellectual Property Organization

Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland

Parent organization - United Nations Economic and Social Council

World Bank Group is actually a group

5 international financial institutions

IBRD – International bank reconstruction and development

(Provides loan to average developing countries)

IDA– International Development Agency

Provides loan to a poor developing country )

MIGA-Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency

(Ensures investment and credit investment )

IFC– International Financial Corporation

(Promotes investment in Private sector)

ICSID– International Committee for Settlement of Investment Dispute

(Promotes and settles disputes b/w two countries)

The World Bank Group (WBG) currently has two ambitious goals: -

End extreme poverty: reduce the percentage of people living on less than $1.25 a day to 3 percent by 2030

Promote shared prosperity: foster income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the population in every country

What is the difference between the IBRD and the IDA?

IBRD was established to function as a self-sustaining business and provides loans and advice to middle-income and credit-worthy poor countries.

The IDA lends money on concessional terms. This means that IDA charges little or no interest and repayments are stretched over 25 to 40 years, including a 5- to 10-year grace period.

IDA also provides grants to countries at risk of debt distress.

World Bank consists of 2 of the Above

1) IBRD

2) IDA

World Bank

Ease of Doing Business

World Development Report

IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute)

Global Hunger Index report

HQ - Washington DC

United States

Founded: 1975

WEF (World Economic Forum)

Global Competitiveness Report

Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report

Global Information Technology Report

The Global Risk Report

Global Social Mobility report

Fostering effective energy transition

Global Energy Architecture Performance Index

Global Gender Gap Report

Environmental Performance Index

(Yale and Columbia Universities along with the World Economic Forum)

IMF (International Monetary Fund)

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 189 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable

economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world

HQ – Washington DC, USA

Global Economic Outlook

Global Financial Stability Report

Fiscal Monitor

United Nations Development Programme

UNDP works to eradicate poverty and reduce inequalities through the sustainable development of nations

Headquarters - New York

Founded – 1965

Human Development Report

Global Multidimensional Poverty Index

Gender Inequality Index

Global Money Laundering Report

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

FATF is an independent inter-governmental body that develops and promotes policies to protect the global

financial system against money laundering and terrorist financing.

HQ - Paris

Reserve Bank of India

Financial Stability Report

Report on Trend and Progress of Banking in India

Monetary Policy Report

Quarterly Statistics on Deposits and Credit of Scheduled Commercial Banks

Asian Development Bank

The Asian Development Outlook is an annual publication (available online and in print)

produced by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

It offers economic analysis and forecasts

India State of Forest Report

Biennial assessment of India’s forests by Forest Survey of India, an organisation

under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC)

Climate Change Performance Index

HQ : Bonn, Germany

Published by GERMANWATCH annually since 2005, the Climate Change Performance Index

(CCPI) tracks countries’ efforts to combat climate change. As an independent monitoring tool it aims to enhance transparency in international climate politics and enables comparison of

climate protection efforts and progress made by individual countries.

Technical Cooperation Report

Nuclear Technology Review

HQ : Vienna, Austria

Published by IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency

Founded: 29 July 1957

It seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and to inhibit its use for any military

purpose

Living Planet Report

The ENERGY report

WWF

World Wide Fund for Nature

HQ : Gland, Switzerland

World Energy Outlook (WEO)

International Energy Agency

HQ : Paris, France

World Oil Outlook

OPEC


The World Happiness Report

Annual publication of the

United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network

HQ : New York

Global Corruption Report (GCR)

Transparency International

HQ : Berlin, Germany

The State of the World's Forests

FAO

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Motto - fiat panis (let there be bread)

HQ : Rome, Italy

IUCN Red List

IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas

International Union for Conservation of Nature

HQ : Gland, Switzerland

World press freedom index

Reporters without borders

HQ – Paris, France

The Index of Economic Freedom is an annual index and ranking created in 1995 by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall

Street Journal

The Heritage Foundation


Intellectual Property (IP) Index

It is released by the US Chamber of Commerce’s Global innovation policy center


World Investment Reports The Trade & Development ReportThe Least Developed Countries

Report

UNCTAD

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

HQ : Geneva, Switzerland

Actions on Air Quality

Global Environment Outlook

Emissions Gap Report

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

HQ : Nairobi, Kenya

Global education monitoring ReportGender Parity Index

UNESCO Science Report

UNESCO

HQ : Paris, France

State of World Population report

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

HQ : New York

World Cities Report

UN-Habitat: United Nations Human Settlements Programme

HQ : Nairobi, Kenya

The State of the World's Children is an annual report published by the United

Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

HQ : New York

Industrial Development Report

UNIDO

United Nations Industrial Development Organization


Global Report on Trafficking in Persons

World Drug Report

World Wildlife Crime Report

UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime)


Global Assessment Report

UNISDR (United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction)


The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

Organisation of Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD)

HQ – Paris, France

The ICT Development Index (IDI)

Global Cybersecurity Index

United Nations

International Telecommunication Union


The World's Women Report

UN DESA

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)

HQ - New York

Global Peace Index

Global Terrorism Index

Institute for Economics and Peace,

HQ – Sydney, Australia

School Education Quality Index(SEQI)

SDG India Index

Composite Water Management Index

State Health Index

District Hospital Index

State Energy Index

Which of the following organizations brings out the publication known as ‘World Economic Outlook’? (UPSC CSE Prelims 2014)

(a) The International Monetary Fund

(b) The United Nations Development Programme

(c) The World Economic Forum

(d) The World Bank

Which one of the following issues the ‘Global Economic Prospects’ report periodically? (UPSC CSE Prelims 2015)

(a) The Asian Development Bank

(b) The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

(c) The US Federal Reserve Bank

(d) The World Bank

ILO (International Labour Organization)

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