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This is the fifteenth in the annual series assessing major development issues. The World Development Report 1992 … explores the links between economic development and the environment. The 1990 report on poverty, last year's report on … report includes the World Development Indicators, which offer selected social and economic statistics on 125 countries …
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This is the fifteenth in the annual series assessing major development issues. The World Development Report 1992 … explores the links between economic development and the environment. The 1990 report on poverty, last year's report on … report includes the World Development Indicators, which offer selected social and economic statistics on 125 countries. …
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This is the first Economic Report on Afghanistan by the World Bank in a quarter-century. It is intended to contribute … objectives of state-building; sustained rapid, broad-based economic growth; and poverty reduction. Analysis of the Afghan economy … the Afghan economy and it s recent performance (Chapter l), and the poverty situation (Chapter 2). Chapter 3 outlines a …
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The report outlines the work of the World Bank in addressing client countries with environmental challenges, and, aims … development in an equitable manner, by reducing poverty, and avoiding sacrificing the interests of future generations, to meet the …
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The Bank Group's lending and non-lending support for environmental sustainability has increased and improved over the past 15 years. But the institution needs to raise the priority it accords to this area of rising concern, strengthen internal cooperation, and work more effectively with its...
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International migration, the movement of people across international boundaries to improve economic opportunity, has enormous implications for growth and welfare in both origin and destination countries. An important benefit to developing countries is the receipt of remittances or transfers from...
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living in absolute poverty, who have benefitted too little from past progress. This report examines some of the difficulties … report addresses the expected sluggish world economic growth as oil-importing countries reduce their current account deficits …
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consequences, and how policies can increase their role in reducing poverty. The GEP explores the gains and losses from …
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