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International Peace Bureau

(Encyclopedia)International Peace Bureau (IPB), organization est. 1891 in Bern, Switerland, by Fredrik Bajer and other members of the third World Peace Congress. Dedicated to promoting world peace, it brought toget...

Geophysical Year, International

(Encyclopedia)Geophysical Year, International: see International Geophysical Year. ...

date line, international

(Encyclopedia)date line, international: see international date line. ...

international gold standard

(Encyclopedia)international gold standard: see international monetary system. ...

International Development Association

(Encyclopedia)International Development Association: see International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. ...

International Finance Corporation

(Encyclopedia)International Finance Corporation: see International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. ...

International Labor Organization

(Encyclopedia)International Labor Organization (ILO), specialized agency of the United Nations, with headquarters in Geneva. It was created in 1919 by the Versailles Treaty and affiliated with the League of Nations...

International Geophysical Year

(Encyclopedia)International Geophysical Year (IGY), 18-month period from July, 1957, through Dec., 1958, during a period of maximum sunspot activity, designated for cooperative study of the solar-terrestrial enviro...

International Monetary Fund

(Encyclopedia)International Monetary Fund (IMF), specialized agency of the United Nations, established in 1945. It was planned at the Bretton Woods Conference (1944), and its headquarters are in Washington, D.C. Th...

international monetary system

(Encyclopedia)international monetary system, rules and procedures by which different national currencies are exchanged for each other in world trade. Such a system is necessary to define a common standard of value ...