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. It is thus about the fundamental issue in economic development: the eradication of poverty from the world. The report … defines poverty in broad terms, to include literacy, nutrition, and health, as well as income. The evidence suggests that … rapid and politically sustainable progress on poverty has been achieved by pursuing a strategy with two equally important …
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living in absolute poverty, who have benefitted too little from past progress. This report examines some of the difficulties …
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This report focuses on the dimensions of poverty, and how to create a better world, free of poverty. The analysis … explores the nature, and evolution of poverty, and its causes, to present a framework for action. The opportunity for expanding … growth, inequality, and poverty reduction, can be harnessed through economic integration, and technological change, dependent …
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. It is thus about the fundamental issue in economic development : the eradication of poverty from the world. The report … defines poverty in broad terms, to include literacy, nutrition, and health, as well as income. The evidence suggests that … rapid and politically sustainable progress on poverty has been achieved by pursuing a strategy with two equally important …
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selected social inclusion goals; and (iv) model at risk of poverty (AROP) rates at the micro regional level. The report …
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This book reviews the experience of the Middle East and North Africa region with poverty and human development since … the mid-1980s. It finds that poverty rates did not decline by much during this period while health and education … indicators improved substantially. The stagnation of poverty rates is ascribed to the stagnation of the region's economies during …
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The WDR 2012: Gender Equality and Development will focus on the evolution of gender equality across the world in the context of the development process. The report will consider gender equality as a core development goal in itself, and will argue that gender equality matters for the pace of...
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World Development Report 1994, the seventeenth in this annual series, examines the link between infrastructure and development and explores ways in which developing countries can improve both the provision and the quality of infrastructure services. In recent decades, developing countries have...
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This is the sixteenth in the annual series and examines the interplay between human health, health policy and economic development. Because good health increases the economic productivity of individuals and the economic growth rate of countries, investing in health is one means of accelerating...
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