World Beat: Collective term for popular third-world musics, ethnic and traditional musics, and eclectic combinations of Western and non-Western musics. Also ethno-pop.

 

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World Beat: Collective term for popular third-world musics, ethnic and traditional musics, and eclectic combinations of Western and non-Western musics. Also ethno-pop.

World Food Program (WFP): A UN agency that contributes commodities, services, and cash to developing countries to meet emergency food needs or to carry out economic and social development projects using food or local . . . View Full Definition

World Fund: US-based mutual funds that invest in securities from a number of countries, including the US, are known as world funds or global funds. Unlike international funds that buy only in overseas m . . . View Full Definition

World Equity Benchmark Series (WEBS): A multilateral development finance agency created by the 1944 Bretton Woods, (New Hampshire) negotiations. It makes loans to developing countries for social overhead capital projects that ar . . . View Full Definition

World English: English as used worldwide or internationally and the common features of this international English.

World Bank: Formally known as the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the World Bank was established in 1944 to aid Europe and Asia after the devastation of World War II. To fu . . . View Full Definition

World Investible Wealth: The World Equity Benchmark Series are similar to SPDRs. W.E.B.S. trade on the AMEX, and track the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) country indexes. WEBS are available for: Austral . . . View Full Definition

World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB): As part of the Office of the Chief Economist, the WAOB coordinates the commodity forecasting program: monitors global weather and analyzes its impact on agriculture: and coordinates USDA’s w . . . View Full Definition

World Meteorological Organization (WMO): From weather prediction to air pollution research, climate change related activities, ozone layer depletion studies and tropical storm forecasting, the World Meteorological Organization coor . . . View Full Definition

World Travel Guide: A yearly publication that provides detailed information on most every country in the world, with entries on currency, transportation, climate, visa and passport requirements, sightseeing opp . . . View Full Definition