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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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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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A Development Emergency: the title of this year's Global Monitoring Report, the sixth in an annual series, could not be more apt. The global economic crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression, is rapidly turning into a human and development crisis. No region is immune. The poor...
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Aid for trade can support countries trying to further benefit from the expanding global market place by helping to address poorly performing infrastructure and institutions. Needless to say, good policies also matter: trade liberalization, improving incentives for private investment in trade,...
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, prepared jointly by the staff of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, provides a development perspective on the …
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This paper focuses on the Medium-Term Development Program for the Kyrgyz Republic. The aim of this program is to put the economy of the country into a sustainable vector of development and improve the budget status to prevent social effects, increase living standard, and reduce poverty in the...
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This paper focuses on the Strategy for Accelerated Growth and Sustainable Development (SCADD) for Burkina Faso. It provides an overview of a decade of development, takes stock of the recent performance of Burkina Faso in various areas, and identifies the main challenges. The paper spells out a...
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Rwanda’s Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy provides a medium-term framework for achieving the country’s long-term development goals and aspirations as embodied in Rwanda Vision 2020, the seven-year Government of Rwanda programme, and the Millennium Development...
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the relative price of investment to build and estimate these IST processes across the U.S and a ""rest of the world …
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