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 …

world is going to respond to the challenge of climate change, building on the foundation laid at the conference in Bali in …

The turn of the century was marked by some significant and promising events for world development. The Millennium …

The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank …

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 …

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is also an important year to work toward a consensus on how the world is going to respond … action is needed to help the world get back on track to achieve the MDGs; and urgent action is also needed to combat climate …