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This is the twelfth in the annual series assessing major development issues. Economic growth rates among the developing countries have varied considerably. The external environment has had an adverse impact on growth, but domestic policies have been more important. Countries striving to adjust...
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This report focuses on the contribution that international capital makes to economic development. While the report pays close attention to the events of the recent past, it also places the use of foreign capital in a broader and longer-term perspective. Using such a perspective, the report shows...
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Long-term needs and sustained effort are underlying themes in this year's report. As with most of its predecessors, it is divided into two parts. The first looks at economic performance, past and prospective. The second part is this year devoted to population - the causes and consequences of...
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aspects of development. The early recovery in the world economy foreseen in last year's World Development Report did not …
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adjustment issues in the 1981 World Development Report. It finds that, although international prospects have worsened over the …-thirds of the population in developing countries and for the vast majority of the world's poor. Informing the discussion is the … experience gained by the World Bank in helping to finance some 800 agricultural and rural development projects in more than 70 …
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report addresses the expected sluggish world economic growth as oil-importing countries reduce their current account deficits …
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This report focuses on the dimensions of poverty, and how to create a better world, free of poverty. The analysis …
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Strong cyclical dynamics, together with an easing of macroeconomic policies in the United States and elsewhere, have boosted large parts of the global economy, into the initial phase of a recovery in 2002. Nonetheless, the global recovery is fragile, because investment spending is insufficient...
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unique path to development. This book seeks to provide a comprehensive picture of the world's development at the beginning of …
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