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Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority manages over $1 trillion, wholly dependent on oil revenues transferred at the discretion of Abu Dhabi's ruling fami...
African Development Bank
The African Development Bank is the only AAA-rated pan-African institution, but this rating depends on non-African shareholders. By statute, African m...
Asian Development Bank
Japan and the United States together control 26% of ADB's votes, giving effective veto over major decisions requiring supermajority approval. Every AD...
AUKUS (Australia-UK-US Security Partnership)
AUKUS has no formal decision-making structure or unified command — a headless partnership where each nation retains sovereign authority and decisions...
Bank for International Settlements
The Bank for International Settlements is the central bank of central banks — a Basel-based institution where 63 central bank governors meet bi-monthl...
GIC Private Limited (Government of Singapore Investment Corporation)
GIC manages Singapore's foreign reserves with an estimated $800-900 billion in assets, operating alongside Temasek in a dual-fund architecture that fe...
Government Pension Fund Global (Norges Bank Investment Management)
Norway's Government Pension Fund Global is the world's largest sovereign wealth fund at over $1.8 trillion, owning roughly 1.5% of every listed compan...
Green Climate Fund
The Green Climate Fund's actual disbursement rate reveals a massive promise-delivery gap. As of late 2024, the GCF had approved $15.9 billion across 2...
Inter-American Development Bank
The Inter-American Development Bank lends roughly $13 billion annually to Latin American and Caribbean nations — approximately 6% of the region's esti...
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The IPCC doesn't conduct research — it synthesises existing literature. While the public perceives thousands of climate scientists doing original work...
International Organization for Standardization
ISO's 25,000+ standards cost money to access, creating a paywall on public goods — standards increasingly mandated by governments become de facto law,...
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
ICANN controls the internet's address book — the Domain Name System that maps human-readable names to machine-readable IP addresses. This gives it the...
New York Stock Exchange
The NYSE is a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange, an Atlanta-based company that bought it for $11 billion in 2013. The exchange generates only ab...
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO's consensus rule means any single member can paralyse the entire alliance for domestic political reasons. Turkey blocked Sweden's membership for...
Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is the most politically concentrated sovereign wealth fund on Earth. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman simultaneo...
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation demonstrates what happens when two apex predators share a habitat. Russia has systematically used the SCO's cons...
UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development)
UNCTAD was born in 1964 as the institutional home of the G77 developing-country bloc, founded at the same conference by Raúl Prebisch to challenge the...
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The UNFCCC has operated for over thirty years without agreed voting rules because Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and OPEC allies blocked adoption of the rules...
World Customs Organization
The World Customs Organization controls the global language of trade classification — the Harmonized System that determines what every product is call...
World Trade Organization
The WTO's dispute settlement system — once called the 'crown jewel' of international trade law — has been dead since December 2019. The United States...