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The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank … Development. This year's report details, for the first time, progress toward the WBG's twin goals of ending extreme poverty by …
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call to action to step up development efforts. The U.K. prime minister spoke of a 'global poverty emergency.' These …
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targets for eradicating poverty and other sources of human deprivation. Following other major international meetings came …
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boosting economic growth and reducing poverty. It is pushing millions back into poverty and putting at risk the v …
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boosting economic growth and reducing poverty. It is pushing millions back into poverty and putting at risk the very survival … global economic crisis. It assesses the impact on developing countries, their growth, poverty reduction, and other MDGs. And …
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Capacity development (CD) is one of the Fund's three core activities and has grown in importance in recent years. It supports member countries' efforts to build the institutions and capacity necessary to formulate and implement sound economic policies, thereby complementing the Fund's...
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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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, examines the impact of the worst recession since the Great Depression on poverty and human development outcomes in developing … precrisis progress in poverty reduction will slow, particularly in low-income countries in Africa. No household in developing … countries is immune. Gaps will persist to 2020. In 2015, 20 million more people in Sub-Saharan Africa will be in extreme poverty …
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Development Goals (MDGs) can be accelerated. The MDGs set clear targets for reducing poverty and other human deprivations and for …
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