In May it was cordially welcomed as a full participant in the OECD's highest-profile activity: a convention to outlaw bribery.

ECONOMIST: The OECD and corruption

His desk is laden with the thick, string-bound paper dossiers beloved of Indian civil servants and cordially loathed by everyone else.

ECONOMIST: Reviving Kolkata

Youth, students, universities, art schools, media, cultural professionals and managers, artists and creators, curators, professionals working in cultural industries are cordially invited to attend and participate in the discussions.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN DHAKA

In celebration of the two-year anniversary of the signing of the Executive Order that reestablished the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, the Initiative cordially invites students, youth, and community advocates across the country to attend its first ever Virtual Youth Town Hall on October 14, 2011 from 4pm to 5:30pm PDT.

WHITEHOUSE: Join our Virtual Youth Town Hall on Friday October 14th