The Interim Regulations for the Fund were released December 20, 2001. ... Its important to note that a disproportionate number of those earning lower wages were in service jobs such as hotel employees and food service workers (for instance, Windows on the World Restaurant in Tower 1) many of whom were immigrants and of races other than white. ... The Fund changed its methodology from using separate race and gender oriented tables (stated in the December 20th 2002, interim regulation) to using the "All Active Males" tables for all claimants (stated in the revised March 13, 2002 final ruling). ...

• Word Count: 1988
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

On December 26, 2004, Sri Lanka was among the most badly hit regions of the Indian Ocean struck by the tsunami. ... The poor in Sri Lanka consist of the urban sector workers in industry and services. ... The agriculture and fisheries were also badly affected by this dislocation of communities along with the mining of fields and forests and restriction to lagoons and the sea, death of farm animals, minimal service extensions and harvesting and marketing. ...

• Word Count: 2077
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The institutional infrastructure was deliberately weakened so that it is no linger capable of delivering services to the poor. ... The economic revival strategy laid out in December 1999 envisaged 4 key goals: 1-Macroeconomic stability and the restoration of a working relationship with international financial institutions (IFIs), 2-structural reforms to remove distortions in the economy, 3-improving governance, especially economic, and reviving key national institutions. ... Given the fiscal mismanagement, mounting external and internal debt, excessive public sector borrowing to finance ri...

• Word Count: 2277
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The World Bank The World Bank is an International Financial Institution created at the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (so-called Bretton Woods conference) in 1944 and formally established in Washington D.C. on 27th December 1945. ... Such aims must be achieved through the provision of grants, preferential loans, expert advice and ancillary financial products (guarantees, risk management products, and analytical services). ...

• Word Count: 5954
• Approx Pages: 24
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate