Dig on USAID #1 Vendor which is the World Bank Group
https://2012-2017.usaid.gov/results-and-data/budget-spending/top-40-vendors
Top 40 Vendors
USAIDworks with a diverse group of partners worldwide. Following is a list of the top 40 vendors, based on amounts obligated. (Data is current as of November, 2014.) Please visit ForeignAssistance.gov to view detailed transaction data.
Vendor Name FY 2014
1WORLD BANK GROUP2,051,451,215.97
2 WORLD FOOD PROGRAM 1,482,417,197.00
3 CHEMONICS 501,697,892.98
4 P F S C M 389,233,980.00
5 FHI 360 351,378,922.26
6 UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND 299,704,499.00
7 JOHN SNOW, INCORPORATED 285,510,939.85
8 DAI WASHINGTON 262,402,692.38
9 MANAGEMENT SCIENCES FOR HEALTH, INC. 245,683,554.43
10 JHPIEGO CORPORATION 219,477,936.09
11 ABT ASSOCIATES INC. 216,992,854.57
12 R T I INTERNATIONAL 207,619,327.94
13 CRS.ORG 206,369,402.89
14 MERCY CORPS 196,784,225.67
15 GAVI ALLIANCE 175,000,000.00
16 WHO / OMS 163,170,668.00
17 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION 154,002,795.81
18 TETRA TECH ARD 153,503,372.25
19 ACDI/VOCA 142,284,590.00
20 INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES GROUP LTD. 137,736,270.09
21 P S I 132,499,067.65
22 SAVE THE CHILDREN 125,954,645.34
23 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS 122,971,079.00
24 IRC AND PARTNERS 122,390,490.55
25 AECOM INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, INC. 118,032,255.18
26 UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CO., LLC 115,178,945.33
27 CREATIVE ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL, INC. 114,315,264.78
28 UNAIDS JOINT UNITED NATIONS PROGRAMME ON HIV/AIDS 112,010,452.00
29 INTERNATIONAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT, INC. 111,532,142.15
30 MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, INC. 105,097,266.17
31 JSI RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE,INC. 103,892,523.00
32 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE 100,116,921.00
33 CONSORTIUM FOR ELECTIONS & POLITICAL PROCESS STRENGTHENING 89,965,953.67
34 FHI DEVELOPMENT 360 LLC 84,598,113.07
35 PACT 81,389,064.08
36 WORLD VISION, INC. 81,288,667.44
37 GLOBAL COMMUNITIES 80,740,523.92
38 USAID Support to Power Transmission Expansion & Connectivity 76,700,000.00
39 WORLD FOOD PROGRAM 74,055,902.79
40 DELOITTE CONSULTING LLP 69,632,923.35
https://www.worldbank.org/ext/en/home
The World Bank comprisesFiveLegal Entities:
IBRD
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
The world’s largest development bank, IBRD provides financial products and policy advice to help countries reduce poverty and extend the benefits of sustainable growth to all of their people.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd
IDA
International Development Association
Global Solidarity for Greater Impact and Results
The successful IDA21 replenishment will assist countries in greatest need, empowering them to navigate an uncertain world and realize their full potential.
IFC
International Finance Corporation
Why Developing Economies Need a New Playbook
Find out the latest outlook on the global economy, and why developing economies are falling further behind.
MIGA
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
Our mandate is to promote cross-border investment in developing countries by providing guarantees (political risk insurance and credit enhancement) to investors and lenders.
Our guarantees protect investments against noncommercial risks and can help investors obtain access to funding sources with improved financial terms and conditions.
ICSID
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
ICSID is the world’s leading institution devoted to international investment dispute settlement.
It has extensive experience in this field, having administered the majority of all international investment cases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bank_Group
The current World Bank President is Ajay Banga
Ajaypal Singh "Ajay" Banga (born November 10, 1959[1]) is an Indian-born American business executive.[2] He is currently the president of the World Bank Group.[3] He was the executive chairman of Mastercard, after having previously served as president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the company from July 2010 until December 31, 2020.[4][5] He retired from this position on December 31, 2021, and joined General Atlantic as its vice chairman.[6]
Before being nominated to the World Bank, he was the chairman of Exor, the Netherlands-based investment holding company controlled by the Italian Agnelli Family,[7][8] and chairman of the public-private Partnership for Central America with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris.[9][10]
Banga is the former chairman of the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) representing more than 300 of the largest international companies investing in India, and chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce.[11]
Banga was elected President of the World Bank on May 3, 2023, having been nominated to the position in February 2023 by the Biden administration.[12][13][14]
In February 2015, President Barack Obama appointed Banga to serve as a member of the President's Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations.[31]
Since the 2020 elections, Banga has been an outside adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris as chairman of the Partnership for Central America where he has led a group of business leaders who have advised her on the administration's work in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.[32]
On February 23, 2023, Banga was nominated by President Biden to lead the World Bank. On May 3, 2023, the World Bank confirmed Ajay Banga as its fourteenth president,[12] and started his term on June 2, 2023.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajay_Banga
Joe Biden nominates Indian-American Ajay Banga as World Bank’s President
ANI News Feb 23, 2023 #joebiden #worldbank #ajaybanga
Raised in India, Ajay Banga has been nominated by the United States of America to be the World Bank’s President, informed The White House on February 23. While addressing weekly briefings, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, "The US nominated Ajay Banga to be president of the World Bank. President Biden himself said he is uniquely equipped to lead the world bank, he is a renowned business executive who has managed companies bringing jobs and investment to developing economies."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w8_Zqf20eM
Ajay Banga Makes History as First Indian-Origin Male President of World Bank | English News | WION
WION May 4, 2023 #WION #WorldBank #AjayBanga
The former CEO of MasterCard, who is of Indian descent, was voted to a five-year term on Wednesday by the 25 members of the World Bank's executive board. His term will begin on June 2nd. U.S. President Joe Biden made the 63-year-old banga's nomination for the position in late February.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auq_tG-wrOM
World Bank Past Presidents
David R. Malpass
April 9, 2019 – June 1, 2023
Oversaw the WBG’s largest ever crisis response during the COVID-19 pandemic, more than doubled the institution’s investment in climate-related projects, and initiated the Evolution Roadmap reform process.
Jim Yong Kim
July 1, 2012 - February 1, 2019
Established a bold agenda for the international development community: end extreme poverty by 2030 and sustainably build shared prosperity by boosting the incomes of the poorest 40% of the population.
Obama Taps Jim Yong Kim for World Bank
Associated Press Mar 23, 2012
President Barack Obama nominated Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank Friday. It's a surprise choice for the World Bank's top job. (March 23)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zASRa8IUVk8
World Bank Group President Kim and Pope Francis Meet to Discuss Mutual Efforts to End Poverty
October 28, 2013
ROME, October 28, 2013 - World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and His Holiness Pope Francis met today at the Vatican to discuss their mutual efforts to end extreme poverty and provide greater opportunities for the poor and vulnerable.
“I was so grateful to meet with the Holy Father and was inspired by his passion and commitment to help the poor, the sick, and the hungry,” Kim said. “We talked about ways we could work together with faith leaders to make a preferential option for the poor, so they can have greater opportunity and justice in their lives.”
Kim thanked Pope Francis for his strong statements encouraging humble service to the less fortunate, as well as his support for better education, health care, environmental protection, and jobs with fair wages to help the poor lift themselves out of poverty.
Following the 20-minute meeting, Pope Francis and Kim agreed to explore ways to work together to end extreme poverty.
“At the World Bank Group, we have set a goal to end extreme poverty in less than a generation, and to boost shared prosperity for the bottom 40 percent of people in developing countries,” Kim said. “Pope Francis and I agree on the urgent moral imperative to lessen the suffering of over 1 billion people and to end the scandal of poverty. We share a vision of a world with greater compassion for all people in need.”
During his visit, Kim also met with Monseigneur Dominique Mamberti, Secretary for Relations with States, and discussed closer collaboration between the Church and the World Bank Group.
“Pope Francis unites us all with the moral clarity of his message on poverty,” Kim said. “We must address the root causes of poverty by giving the poor access to education, health care, and good jobs–benefitting women, young people, and those denied opportunities in the past.”
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2013/10/28/world-bank-group-president-kim-pope-francis-efforts-end-poverty
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim Press Conference Rome, Italy
Full Transcript
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/speech/2013/10/28/transcript-vatican-press-conference-world-bank-group-jim-yong-kim
The World Bank, the Catholic Church, and the Global Future of Development
Thomas Banchoff March 16, 2015
Contact between the two institutions has been sporadic. The Bank’s focus is projects with governments to address economic development, while the Church works mainly through social channels. Recently, however, the leaders of both institutions have articulated convergent approaches to human development that link economics with health, education, and the environment. As World Bank President Jim Yong Kim put it after his meeting with Pope Francis in October 2013, “We share a vision of a world with greater compassion for all people in need.”
This spring Georgetown’s new Global Futures Initiative is inviting faculty and students to explore that common vision and how to realize it in practice. A series of lectures by President Kim and his colleague Chief Economist Kaushik Basu are catalyzing conversations on campus and on the web, including one with 20 participants from Catholic and Jesuit colleges and universities around the world.
In that conversation thus far, bloggers from Mexico, Peru, the Philippines, India, South Korea, Japan, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Rwanda, and the United States have highlighted two areas of overlap and one difference of emphasis in emergent approaches to development within the Bank and within the Church.
Mental Models. Kim’s first lecture, on the Ebola crisis, highlighted the Bank’s recent work on mental models—the often unconscious ideas and values that frame problems and can impede the search for creative solutions. What Francis calls the “globalization of indifference” exemplifies a destructive mental model—the widespread assumption that economic forces are beyond our control and that fundamental questions of justice should not frame our policy thinking.
Social Inequality. In his first lecture, on global economic trends, Kaushik Basu discussed the Bank’s adoption of “shared prosperity” as a priority goal. The emphasis not just on extreme poverty but also on inequality parallels developments in Catholic social thought in recent years. As inequality has sharpened—the wealth of the richest global 1 percent is likely to soon surpass that of the other 99 percent—Francis has addressed it as “the root of social evil” and a threat to the global common good.
Accompaniment. A cross-cutting current within the blogs—the importance of personal engagement with the poor in a spirit of mutual respect—points to a difference of emphasis between the Bank and the Church. As an intergovernmental institution with a secular ethos, the Bank cannot approach human dignity as grounded in transcendence or in a Gospel command of love. Francis’ radical call to accompany the poor in their struggle makes development a personal, as well as a political, imperative.
Ultimately the World Bank, like the Catholic Church and other faith communities, acknowledges the importance of personal engagement in advancing social and political goals. Any appeal to rid the world of poverty involves a call to individual conscience. As Kim reminded the Georgetown students at the close of his lecture, “You are the first generation in the history of the world that can end extreme poverty in your lifetimes.”
Jim Kim’s next lecture in the Global Future of Development series, on March 18, will address climate change. To follow the conversation, visit the Georgetown Global Futures website and follow the dialogues on global development and Catholic social thought.
https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/forum/the-world-bank-the-catholic-church-and-the-global-future-of-development
This blog post originally appeared on the Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace, & World Affairs at Georgetown University.
https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/forum/the-world-bank-the-catholic-church-and-the-global-future-of-development
A Company Family: The untold history of Obama and the CIA
By Jeremy Kuzmarov Posted Oct 07, 2021
CIA Family Connection — Ann Dunham
"Dunham’s boss at USAID in Indonesia, Dr. Donald Gordon Jr., author of Credit for Small Farmers in Developing Countries for USAID (1976), was identified in Julius Mader’s 1968 book, Who Who’s in the CIA, as a CIA agent.9
Another boss, Peter Geithner, was future Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s father.
Ann obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in anthropology at the University of Hawaii, writing a thesis which argued that Indonesian villagers were dynamic and could produce greater wealth if they had access to market incentives and capital.
Ann went to Indonesia in the mid 1960s at the time that the CIA supported a military coup led by General Suharto against the left-wing regime of Sukarno.
Over two million suspected members of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) were rounded up and massacred in its aftermath and thousands more were imprisoned—many for decades.
Much of Ann’s anthropological and consulting field work was carried out in East and Central Java, which provided a hotbed of support for the PKI—including among members of the Javanese women’s association and labor federation.
The CIA at this time employed anthropologists and development workers as undercover agents to gather information on villagers’ political affiliations, in which Ann, according to her thesis adviser, Alice Dewey, had taken an interest."
"In March 1965, Ann married an Indonesian Lieutenant Colonel, Lolo Soetoro, whom she met at the University of Hawaii’s East-West Center, a “kinder, gentler version of the School of the Americas,” according to one writer, and “cover for a training program in which Southeast Asians were brought to Hawaii and trained to go back to create agent nets,” as U.S. Information Service (USIS) Director Frank Scotten described it.
The head of the East-West Center in 1965 was Howard P. Jones, U.S. ambassador to Indonesia from 1958 to 1965.10
Jones was present in Jakarta as Suharto and his CIA-backed military officers planned the 1965 overthrow of Sukarno, who was seen, along with the PKI as an ally of China.
Jones later defended the coup in The Washington Post, writing that Suharto was merely responding to a communist coup against Sukarno led by Colonel Untung—which was actually set up by the CIA.11
A friend of Ann’s told her biographer that the marriage to Lolo was arranged, suggesting that Ann may have acted as a female “honeypot” for the CIA whose job was to recruit assets and help them obtain U.S. citizenship.
Hailing from an aristocratic family which lost out in Sukarno’s land reform, Soetoro was recalled to active duty in July 1965 before General Suharto’s right-wing coup and worked as an army geographer in Java and Papua New Guinea, where the Indonesian army brutally suppressed popular revolts.
Soetoro went on to become an executive at Mobil Oil and its liaison to Suharto, whose economic policies Dunham praised."
https://mronline.org/2021/10/07/a-company-family-the-untold-history-of-obama-and-the-cia/
A Company Family: The untold history of Obama and the CIA
By Jeremy Kuzmarov Posted Oct 07, 2021
CIA Family Connection — Stanley Armour Dunham
Obama’s grandfather Stanley Armour Dunham—who helped raise him—served with the 9th Air Force Division in World War II.
He was pictured in a military uniform with no insignia, which suggests an intelligence unit.
Another photo featured his daughter Ann, with the insignia of an elite school in Lebanon on her shirt in the 1950s, where Stanley may have worked with the CIA or another U.S. government agency.
In the early 1960s, Stanley Dunham was part of a group photo taken with Barack Obama, Sr., on his departure from the University of Hawaii.
Obama Sr. had been part of a State Department/CIA exchange financed in part by the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation that brought future African leaders to the U.S. who were being groomed to serve U.S. interests in the Cold War.
The photo would suggest that Dunham was one of the coordinators of the exchange, indicating work for the State Department or CIA.
https://mronline.org/2021/10/07/a-company-family-the-untold-history-of-obama-and-the-cia/
This appears to be the real father of Barack Obama
Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Subuh_Sumohadiwidjojo
SHOCKER! Loretta Fuddy – The Cult of Subud – Barack Obama and His REAL FATHER?
https://pressall.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/shocker-loretta-fuddy-the-cult-of-subud-barack-obama-and-his-real-father/