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Small States Resilience to Natural Disasters and Climate Change : Role for the IMF

International Monetary Fund - 2016

Small developing states are disproportionately vulnerable to natural disasters. On average, the annual cost of disasters for small states is nearly 2 percent of GDP-more than four times that for larger countries. This reflects a higher frequency of disasters, adjusted for land area, as well as...

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Preserving Debt Sustainability in Low-Income Countries in the Wake of the Global Crisis

International Monetary Fund - 2010

We cannot allow the return of economic stability to signify a return to "business as usual" for the IMF. The crisis exposed huge cracks in the international financial architecture of which the Fund is a key part. We have an historic responsibility to fix them. I urge all of us to recommit to...

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Global Monitoring Report, 2010 : The MDGs after the Crisis

International Monetary Fund - 2010

World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. It provides a development perspective on the global economic crisis and …

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Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015 : Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity

World Bank - 2014

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

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Global Monitoring Report 2009 : A Development Emergency

International Monetary Fund - 2012

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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Global Monitoring Report 2008 : MDGs and the Environment, Agenda for Inclusive and Sustainable Development

International Monetary Fund - 2012

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

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Global monitoring report : 2009: A development emergency

2009

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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Global Monitoring Report 2010 : The MDGs after the Crisis

International Monetary Fund - 2012

What is the human cost of the global economic crisis? How many people will the crisis prevent from escaping poverty, and how many will remain hungry? How many more infants will die? Are children being pulled out of schools, not getting the education they need to become more productive adults and...

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Global Monitoring Report, 2008: MDGs and the Environment : Agenda for Inclusive and Sustainable Development

International Monetary Fund - 2008

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 …

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Global Monitoring Report, 2009 : A Development Emergency

International Monetary Fund - 2009

, prepared jointly by the staff of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, provides a development perspective on the …

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