The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) was founded in 1958 to encourage economic cooperation among its member states (the nations of the African continent). It is one of five regional commissions under the administrative direction of headquarters. With its main offices in Addis Ababa, , the ECA has 53 member states and […]

The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC or ECLAC, CEPAL in Spanish) was established in 1948 (then as the UN Economic Commission for Latin America, or UNECLA) to encourage economic cooperation among its member states. In 1984, a resolution was passed to include the countries of the Caribbean in the […]

USAID was established to help implement the Marshall Plan’s reconstruction of Europe after World War Two and the Truman Administration’s Point Four Program. In 1961, the Foreign Assistance Act was signed into law and USAID was created by executive order. Since that time, USAID has been the principal U.S. agency to extend assistance to countries […]

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), located in Bangkok, , is the regional arm of the United Nations Secretariat for the Asian and Pacific region. It was established in 1947 (then as the UN Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East) to encourage economic cooperation among its […]

The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. The UN was founded in 1945 to replace the League of Nations, in the hope that it would intervene in conflicts between states and thereby avoid war. […]