With less than five years left to achieve the MDGs, this year's report looks at the prospects and challenges for reaching the goals. It also examines the great diversity of performance across indicators, countries, and categories of countriesto determine the necessary policies to fill the...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Observations on social capital -- Notes on social capital and economic performance -- Social capital in the creation of human capital -- Defining social capital: an integrating view -- Formal and informal institutions -- Creating and harnessing social capital --...