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The Millennium Villages Project

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A project launched in 2005, aimed at proving that by providing communities with the proven set of interventions, it is possible to make a significant impact on poverty reduction in rural Africa.

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The Manhattan Project

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A research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada, from 1942 to 1946.

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The Snowy Mountains Scheme

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A hydroelectricity and irrigation complex in southeast Australia that consists of sixteen major dams and seven power stations, constructed between 1949 and 1974. It is considered one of the most complex integrated water and hydro-electric power schemes in the world.

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The New Deal

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The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939 to help the United States recover from the Great Depression.

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The Tennessee Valley Authority

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A federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression.

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China's South–North Water Transfer Project

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The world's largest transfer project that aims to channel 44.8 billion cubic meters of fresh water annually from the Yangtze River in southern China to the country's less fertile northern regions, through three canal systems.

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The Green Revolution

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The Green Revolution refers to a set of research and development of technology transfer initiatives occurring between the 1940s and the late 1960s, that increased agricultural production worldwide, particularly in the developing world, beginning most markedly in the late 1960s.

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The Belt and Road Initiative

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The Belt and Road Initiative is a global development strategy adopted by the Chinese government in 2013 involving infrastructure development and investments in countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa.

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The Marshall Plan

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Officially known as the European Recovery Program, the Marshall Plan was an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which over 12billion(approximately12 billion (approximately 100 billion in 2016 US dollars) in economic assistance was provided to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.

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The Human Genome Project

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An international scientific research project with the goal of determining the sequence of nucleotide base pairs that make up human DNA, and of identifying and mapping all of the genes of the human genome from both a physical and a functional standpoint, successfully completed in April 2003.

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Dubai's Palm Islands

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The Palm Islands are an artificial archipelago in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on which major commercial and residential infrastructures are being built. They are made from land reclaimed from the Persian Gulf and are one of the world's largest land reclamation projects.

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The Clean India Mission

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Also known as Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, it is a country-wide campaign initiated by the Government of India in 2014 to eliminate open defecation and improve solid waste management. It is one of the largest cleanliness drives in the world.

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