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

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 …

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 …

This 2001 Annual Report reviews economic developments in the world during FY2000. Output growth in emerging Asia picked …

This 2002 Annual Report describes world economic and financial developments in FY2002. During FY2002, the IMF faced … important new challenges in an unusually unsettled world environment. After a period of strong expansion, the global economy …

-thirds of the cumulative current account surpluses of all the world’s surplus countries. Summers thinks that such a unique …