. Yet the world is still far from achieving the MDGs. This Global Monitoring Report (GMR) reviews the efforts under way to …

development crisis. The financial crisis originated in the developed world, but it has spread quickly and inexorably to the … developing world, sparing no country. Increasingly it appears that this will not be a short-lived crisis. The poor countries are … survival. At high- level meetings held in 2008 to mark the MDG halfway point, world leaders expressed grave concern that the …

world is going to respond to the challenge of climate change, building on the foundation laid at the conference in Bali in …

World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. It provides a development perspective on the global economic crisis and …

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is also an important year to work toward a consensus on how the world is going to respond … action is needed to help the world get back on track to achieve the MDGs; and urgent action is also needed to combat climate …

, prepared jointly by the staff of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, provides a development perspective on the …