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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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Sustaining Long-Run Growth and Macroeconomic Stability in Low-Income Countries : The Role of Structural Transformation and Diversification
International Monetary Fund - 2014
Diversification and structural transformation play important roles in influencing the macroeconomic performance of low-income countries (LICs). Increases in income per capita at early stages of development are typically accompanied by a transformation in a country's production and export...
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Sustaining Long-Run Growth and Macroeconomic Stability in Low Income Countries : The Role of Structural Transformation and Diversification
International Monetary Fund - 2014
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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 2006 : Millennium Development Goals - Strengthening Mutual Accountability, Aid, Trade, and Governance
International Monetary Fund - 2012
. Yet the world is still far from achieving the MDGs. This Global Monitoring Report (GMR) reviews the efforts under way to …
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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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Integrating Poor Countries into the World Trading System
International Monetary Fund - 2006
Efforts to liberalize world trade are increasingly focusing on strengthening the links between low-income countries … developing countries to choose fuller participation in the world trading system …
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