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Broad-based global economic growth in 2006, and more generally since 2000, provides grounds for optimism about progress in advancing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The 2007 Global Monitoring Report (GMR) takes stock of this progress and assesses the contributions of developing...
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response, the World Bank Group increased lending to unprecedented levels. The World Bank posted a large increase in middle …
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The global economic crisis seriously threatens the economic growth and poverty reduction that Armenia achieved in recent years. The most recent data indicate that the economy is now shrinking, with prospects worsening in 2009 and 2010 when the full impact of the crisis is expected to unfold....
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There are visible signs that the global financial crisis is affecting economic growth and poverty reduction in Bulgaria. After a period of strong economic growth through 2008, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2009 is projected to shrink by 3.5 percent due to the crisis, with important...
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interdependence and increasing complexity in the world economy. It assesses the prospects for progress in accelerating growth and …
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Structural transformation is particularly important for middle income countries. In dealing with the appropriate policies to be associated with structural changes, this report analyzes the processes of industrialization, urbanization, and the sectoral deployment of labor. The challenges...
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report addresses the expected sluggish world economic growth as oil-importing countries reduce their current account deficits …
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This is the fourth in the World Bank's annual series assessing key development issues. Adjustment, global and national …, to promote sustainable growth in the changing world economy is the main theme of this report. Recession and inflation in … the industrial countries, together with the rise in oil prices, have been the main forces at work in the world economy in …
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adjustment issues in the 1981 World Development Report. It finds that, although international prospects have worsened over the …-thirds of the population in developing countries and for the vast majority of the world's poor. Informing the discussion is the … experience gained by the World Bank in helping to finance some 800 agricultural and rural development projects in more than 70 …
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aspects of development. The early recovery in the world economy foreseen in last year's World Development Report did not …
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