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This is a list of notable hereditary and lineage organizations, and is informed by the database of the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America.It includes societies that limit their membership to those who meet group inclusion criteria, such as descendants of a particular person or group of people of historical importance.
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Disruption caused by the war and the colonization hampered the traditional economy, and possibly led to shortages of food and materials. [162] Across the western hemisphere, war with various Native American civilizations constituted alliances based out of both necessity or economic prosperity and, resulted in mass-scale intertribal warfare. [163]
The World Bank has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances. The World Bank and its private-sector lending arm, the International Finance Corp., have financed governments and companies accused of human rights violations such as rape, murder and torture.
In Honduras, the business-lending arm of the World Bank aligned itself with a key player in a land dispute that has left more than 130 people dead, including Gregorio Chávez, a preacher who went out to tend his garden one day and didn’t come back. In the last decade, the International Finance Corp.’s lending and influence has soared, even as it has embraced financing methods that shield ...
Before Malpass became president, his son Robert had joined the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a branch of the World Bank Group that lends money to private sector businesses and whose USD 5.5 billion funding from a USD 13 billion World Bank capital increase was secured by the US Treasury at the time that David Malpass was the Treasury ...
New Evidence Ties World Bank to Human Rights Abuses in Ethiopia. Peru. How The World Bank Is Financing Environmental Destruction. India. A Power Plant Backed By The World Bank Group Threatens A Way Of Life. Honduras. World Bank’s Business-Lending Arm Backed Palm Oil Producer Amid Deadly Land War. Kosovo
Cosimo de' Medici, Florentine banker, who established his family, the Medici dynasty, as effective rulers of Florence Jakob Fugger, of the Fugger family Bindo Altoviti, famous patron of the arts, papal banker and grandnephew of Pope Innocent VIII Johann Hinrich Gossler (1738–90), of the Berenberg-Gossler family Philippine Welser, a member of the patrician Welser banking family, and the wife ...