The proliferation of regional trade agreements is fundamentally altering the world trade landscape. The number of … countries, they can have adverse effects on excluded countries. Lowering of border barriers around the world is crucial to … minimizing these effects. The completion of the Doha Development Agenda by all countries in the World Trade Organization will …

Human and economic developments are closely linked to geography. The mission of the World Bank Group is to assist … state of the world and its people is an important part of that mission. Recognizing the formidable challenges and great … that end the World Bank has published an atlas for over 40 years. This edition of the Atlas of Global Development draws on …

The world economy is emerging from the throes of a historically deep and synchronized recession provoked by the …

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) provide a multidimensional framework for attacking poverty in a world of multi …

The release of this year's global economic prospects finds the world economy at a crossroads. Markets all over the … world are engulfed in a global economic crisis, with stock markets sharply down and volatile, almost all currencies having … examines the medium-term implications of this crisis for developing-country growth, inflation, and world trade. Chapter two …

Thirty years ago, half the developing world lived in extreme poverty today, a quarter. Now, a much smaller share of …'s end, it could lead to warming of 5??C or more compared with preindustrial times and to a vastly different world from today …

-income countries. This GEP seeks to develop a better understanding of technology and its diffusion within the developing world. It …

unique path to development. This book seeks to provide a comprehensive picture of the world's development at the beginning of …