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In 2015, as the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) come to an end, the international community is embarking on a new global framework for sustainable development. The international community, including the OECD and its members, will need to adapt its policy instruments and working methods to...
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consumers, and the tax revenues governments can draw on to fund health, education, and other services.The World Development … exploring these and related issues, the Report contains selected data from the World Bank's new program of Investment Climate … Surveys, the Bank's Doing Business Project, and World Development Indicators 2004. This Report offers practical insights for …
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In a first-ever joint report by the UN, the OECD, the World Bank and the IMF, the world’s four principal development … international development address that most compelling of human desires-a world free of poverty and free of the misery that poverty …
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Information communication technologies (ICTs) are crucial to reducing poverty, improving access to health and education services and creating new sources of income and employment for the poor. Being able to access and use ICTs has become a major factor in driving competitiveness, economic growth...
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The global economy appears to be transitioning toward a more stable period. Although acute risks have diminished, real-side activity remains sluggish †“ especially in high-income Europe. Most developing countries have fully recovered from the crisis. Although growth is slower than during the...
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Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank (WB) to initiate a dialogue between the fisheries and …
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development goals. Subsequently, the commitment to halve world poverty became the focus of most donor organisations through the … Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Long central to UN programmes, this focus on poverty reduction became key to IMF and World …
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The Gender Institutions and Development Database (GID-DB) provides key data on gender-based discrimination in social institutions. Data help analyse women's empowerment and understand gender gaps in key areas of development. Covering 178 countries and territories, the GID-DB contains...
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