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The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank … education and health services, remains below that of households in the top 60 percent. The focus of this year's report is on …
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, emerging priorities, and provides a detailed region-by-region picture of performance in the developing regions of the world …, drawing on indicators for poverty, education, gender equality, health, and other goals. Subtitled "Confronting the Challenges … concentrated. The report, which is jointly issued by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, argues that gender …
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. Yet the world is still far from achieving the MDGs. This Global Monitoring Report (GMR) reviews the efforts under way to …
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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Monterrey Consensus have created a powerful global compact for development. But the continued credibility of this compact hinges on fostering momentum in its implementation. With the five-year stocktaking of the implementation of the Millennium...
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The turn of the century was marked by some significant and promising events for world development. The Millennium …
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Experience shows that there is often ample room for more effective and efficient use of investment tax incentives in low-income countries. Tax incentives generally rank low in investment climate surveys in low-income countries, and there are many examples in which they are reported to be...
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several years to emerge. For example, deteriorating health and nutrition today could lead to higher mortality rates in … people who will not escape poverty, the increase in infant mortality, the number of children who will be denied education …
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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 …
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