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The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank … Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund, with substantive inputs from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and …
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One decade remains to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that the international community set out in 2000 …. Yet the world is still far from achieving the MDGs. This Global Monitoring Report (GMR) reviews the efforts under way to … to guard against risks to their effective implementation. Trade reform needs new life. The focus of the international …
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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 … targets for eradicating poverty and other sources of human deprivation. Following other major international meetings came … International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other international partners, the Report assesses how the various parties-developing countries …
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for the developing countries, donors, and the international financial institutions (IFIs) to reestablish progress toward …
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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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World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. It provides a development perspective on the global economic crisis and …, will be disastrous. The international financial institutions and international community responded strongly and quickly to …
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This paper reviews economic developments in Barbados during the 1990s. Economic activity declined during 1990-92 but began to recover in 1993. The recovery started slowly in 1993, but picked up in 1994, and real GDP grew by 3.8 percent in that year. Adverse weather in 1994 led to a drop in sugar...
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