The economy of Ecuador is the eighth largest in Latin America and the 69th largest in the world by total GDP. Ecuador's economy is based on the export of oil,bananas,shrimp,gold,other primary agricultural products and money transfers from Ecuadorian emigrants employed abroad. In 2017,remittances constituted 2.7% of Ecuador's GDP. The total trade amounted to 42% of the Ecuador's GDP in 2017.
The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries. It is the largest and best-known development bank in the world and an observer at the United Nations Development Group. The bank is headquartered in Washington,D.C.,in the United States. It provided around $98.83 billion in loans and assistance to "developing" and transition countries in the 2021 fiscal year. The bank's stated mission is to achieve the twin goals of ending extreme poverty and building shared prosperity. Total lending as of 2015 for the last 10 years through Development Policy Financing was approximately $117 billion. Its five organizations are
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) was the United States Government's Development finance institution until it merged with the Development Credit Authority (DCA) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to form the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). OPIC mobilized private capital to help solve critical development challenges and in doing so,advanced the foreign policy of the United States and national security objectives.
Occidental Petroleum Corporation is an American company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration in the United States,and the Middle East as well as petrochemical manufacturing in the United States,Canada,and Chile. It is organized in Delaware and headquartered in Houston. The company ranked 183rd on the 2021 Fortune 500 based on its 2020 revenues and 670th on the 2021 Forbes Global 2000.
The Union of South American Nations (USAN),sometimes also referred to as the South American Union,abbreviated in Spanish as UNASUR and in Portuguese as UNASUL,is an intergovernmental regional organization set up by Hugo Chavez to counteract the influence of the United States in the region. It once comprised twelve South American countries;as of 2019,most have withdrawn.
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani is Emir of Qatar,reigning since 2013.
Jared Corey Kushner is an American businessman,investor,and former government official. He is the son-in-law of former president Donald Trump through his marriage to Ivanka Trump,and served as a senior advisor to Trump from 2017 to 2021. He was also Director of the Office of American Innovation.
660 Fifth Avenue is a 41-story office building on the west side of Fifth Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The office tower was designed by Carson &Lundin and built for its developer Tishman Realty and Construction from 1955 to 1957.
Kushner Companies LLC is an American real estate developer in the New York City metropolitan area. The company's biggest presence is in the New Jersey residential market.
Mauricio Claver-Carone is an American private-equity investor,former Treasury Department and National Security Council official,lawyer,and lobbyist,who was the president of the Inter-American Development Bank from October 2020 until September 26,2022.
The Qatar Investment Authority is Qatar's sovereign wealth fund. The QIA was founded by the State of Qatar in 2005 to strengthen the country's economy by diversifying into new asset classes. In October 2023,the QIA has an estimated $475 billion of assets under management.
Joshua Kushner is an American businessman,heir,and investor. He is the founder and managing partner of the venture capital firm Thrive Capital,co-founder of Oscar Health,and the son of real estate developer Charles Kushner. He is the brother of Jared Kushner,son-in-law and former senior advisor to former U.S. President Donald Trump. He is also a minority owner of the Memphis Grizzlies.
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is an organization of the United States government under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). It was created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,the 2010 U.S. health care reform legislation. CMS provides healthcare coverage to more than 100 million Americans through Medicare,Medicaid,the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP),and the Health Insurance Marketplace.
Oscar Health,Inc. is an American health insurance company,founded in 2012 by Joshua Kushner,Kevin Nazemi and Mario Schlosser,and is headquartered in New York City. The company focuses on the health insurance industry through telemedicine,healthcare focused technological interfaces,and transparent claims pricing systems which would make it easier for patients to navigate.
The Public Investment Fund is the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia. It is among the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world with total estimated assets of US$925 billion. It was created in 1971 for the purpose of investing funds on behalf of the Government of Saudi Arabia. The wealth fund is controlled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler since 2015.
The United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is a development finance institution and agency of the United States federal government. DFC invests in development projects primarily in lower and middle-income countries. First authorized on 5 October 2018 by the BUILD Act,the independent agency was formed on 20 December 2019 by merging the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) with the Development Credit Authority (DCA) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID),as well as with several other smaller offices and funds.
The Abraham Accords are bilateral agreements on Arab–Israeli normalization signed between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and between Israel and Bahrain on September 15,2020. Mediated by the United States,the announcement of August 13,2020,concerned Israel and the UAE before the subsequent announcement of an agreement between Israel and Bahrain on September 11,2020. On September 15,2020,the signing of the agreements was hosted by US president Trump on the Truman Balcony of the White House amid elaborate staging intended to evoke the signings of historic formal peace treaties in prior administrations.
The Kosovo and Serbia economic normalization agreements,informally known as the Washington Agreement,are a pair of documents in which Kosovo and Serbia agreed to facilitate economic normalization among themselves. The documents were signed by the Prime Minister of Kosovo Avdullah Hoti and the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučićon September 4,2020,at the White House,in the presence of the President of the United States Donald Trump.
The Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII) is a collaborative effort by Group of Seven to fund infrastructure projects in developing nations based on the trust principles of the Blue Dot Network. It is considered to be the bloc's counter to China's Belt and Road Initiative and a key component of the "Biden Doctrine".
Qatar has been noted for its ability to use soft power to achieve its objectives by influencing other actor's choices and populations’views towards it. Qatar's soft power is mostly manifested by Qatar's extensive sports and media network through government owned intermediaries such as Qatar Sports Investment,Al Jazeera,Qatar Airways,which critics argue serve in part to divert attention from Qatar's human rights violations,discrimination against the LGBT community and sponsorship of non-state militant groups.
