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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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data from 176 countries in the areas of petroleum products, natural gas, coal, and electricity. It lays out an analysis of …
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Energy subsidies have wide-ranging economic consequences. While aimed at protecting consumers, subsidies aggravate fiscal imbalances, crowd-out priority public spending, and depress private investment, including in the energy sector. Subsidies also distort resource allocation by encouraging...
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The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank …
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, emerging priorities, and provides a detailed region-by-region picture of performance in the developing regions of the world … concentrated. The report, which is jointly issued by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, argues that gender …
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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 …
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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Monterrey Consensus have created a powerful global compact for development. But the continued credibility of this compact hinges on fostering momentum in its implementation. With the five-year stocktaking of the implementation of the Millennium...
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The turn of the century was marked by some significant and promising events for world development. The Millennium …
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