UN SPECIAL AGENCIES FOR BANK EXAM PREPARATION

Important bits for banking :

Name of the organization	Estd. year	Chairman	Head quarters	Asst secretary general	Another name or abbrevation	Main objective
Uno women commission	2011- 1st January	Michael basket(former bracht of Chile)	New York	Laxmipuri(assistant secretary gen)		Women rights protection
IMF(187 country members ) 187th country- thuvalu	Estd 1945 Functions started: 1947	Director general- Christian logarde	Washington D  C		International monetary fund	1)Solvency of balance of payments 2) Paper gold issue 3)short term lending to least developing countries
IBRD 187 members countries	Estd 1945 Functions started:1946	President: Robert zoellick Indian director: m.n.prasad	Washington D C		International bank for reconstruction and development	Long term loans giving to least developed countries
IAEA	Estd 1957	Director general: yukiyo amino from japan Chairman: anwar pharvez from Pakistan	vienna		International atomic energy agency	Nuclear supply group
WHO	1948 april 7th	Director general:  Margaret chan	Geneva		World health organisation	Health related
FAO	1945 oct 16th	Director general: jose graziano da silva(brazil)	rome		Food and agricultural organisation	Food related
ILO	1919	Director general: antony lake	New York		International labour organisation	Labour acts
UNICEF	1946	Director general: antony lake	New York		United nations international children education fund	Children rights
UNESCO	1946	Director general: koichiro matchura	Paris		United nations education scientific cultural organisation	Education and scientific rights
WTO 157 membership countries 156rd russia 157th onavatta Russia is not there	1948		geneva			Previous name GATT(name changed to wto according to urugue round or dunkel proposal)
ADB- 64 member countries			maneela	Huruhiko kuroda	Asian development bank	Adb conference known as Olympic finance

Summits important meetings: 2011 to 2012

Name	Estd year	Membership Countries	Important points	Meetings held
g-7 now g8*	1975 Hq-	A-Afghanistan B-Britain C-Canada F-France R-Russia J-Japan I-Italy G-Germany	After joining of Russia g-7 name changed to g-8	37th- g8 conference 2011 may held at Deville resort(French) 2012-cicago
EARTH summit*				2012-US
Saarc(south asian association for regional cooperation)	1985 Hq- khatmandu (Nepal capital)	A Afghanistan M-Maldives B-Bangladesh B-Bhutan S-srilanka P-Pakistan I-India N-Nepal	1st women secretary general- fatheema saheed Saarc university-newdelhi	Saarc 1st meeting held at dhaka
Sco(sanghai cooperation organization)	2001	T-tajakistan R-russia U-ujakistan C-china K-kajakistan K-kirkistan		Sco conference held at astana- capital of kazakistan
Brics*	2011	Brazil Russia India China South Africa		Conference of 2011 held at sania(china) 2012-28th march-at new delhi
Asean(association for south east Asian nations)	1967	B-Brunei P-Philippines L-Laos T-Thailand V-Vietnam M-Malaysia I-Indonesia M-Myanmar C-Cambodia S-Singapore	From 2010 1st Jan India is not a member but attending look east policy India Asian- free trade agreement 2010	2011 Asian conference held at Jakarta
Nam(non aligned movement) 118 members countries	1955 Hq- Kaula lampur			Conference held every 3 years 2009- 15th conf at shrapnel sheik(Egypt) 2012-16th conf- Iran(Tehran)
Nato (north Atlantic treaty organization)	Hq-brussels			2010 December conf held at lisbah (Portugal)
Common wealth-chhogam 54 members countries	1926 may 24th hq-london	Present secretary gen- kamlesh sharma	Every meeting held after 2 years	Conf 2009-at port of Spain 2011- perth(Australia)
g-5(g-8 outreach countries or g-8 observe countries)	2008	C-China M-Mexico I-India B-Brazil SA-South africa
g-20(large economic countries)	1989			2010 nov conf held at Seoul(south Korea) 2011- Cannes 2011 g-20 finance ministers conf- Paris
g-15(developing countries)	1989			2010-tehran 2011-colombo
Basic		C-China I-India B-Brazil SA-Southafrica		2011-china