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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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, 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 … empowerment of women (the third MDG) and the special problems of fragile states, where extreme poverty is increasingly …
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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 …: Favorable growth has helped reduce poverty, but more even and accelerated progress requires strengthening of infrastructure and …
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crucial year to build momentum. The MDGs set clear targets for eradicating poverty and related human deprivations, and for …
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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 …
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What is the human cost of the global economic crisis? How many people will the crisis prevent from escaping poverty … lower completion rates in later years. And household incomes that fall far below the poverty line will delay escapes from … poverty. This report uses indirect evidence to assess the impact of the crisis on several indicators, including the number of …
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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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boosting economic growth and reducing poverty. It is pushing millions back into poverty and putting at risk the v …
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This paper focuses on goal setting for development of the world. The paper highlights that the goals come from the … agreements and resolutions of the world conferences organized by the United Nations in the first half of the 1990s. The paper … focuses on seven goals that cover poverty, education, gender equality, infant and child mortality, maternal mortality …
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