promotion accompany market transactions. Hence, building institutions that support the development of markets is the primary …, and individuals. This overview is a presage to the World Development Report 2002, which shows that institutional strength … focus of this report, analyzing what institutions do to promote growth, and facilitate access, and suggesting how to build …

, prepared jointly by the staff of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, provides a development perspective on the …A Development Emergency: the title of this year's Global Monitoring Report, the sixth in an annual series, could not be … development crisis. No region is immune. The poor countries are especially vulnerable, as they have the least cushion to withstand …

This is the fifteenth in the annual series assessing major development issues. The World Development Report 1992 … report includes the World Development Indicators, which offer selected social and economic statistics on 125 countries … explores the links between economic development and the environment. The 1990 report on poverty, last year's report on …

Three billion people will be added to the world's population over the next 50 years and 2.8 billion people today …

Thirty years ago, half the developing world lived in extreme poverty today, a quarter. Now, a much smaller share of …, more strong storms, and more heat waves-taxing individuals, firms, and governments, drawing resources away from development …. Second, continuing climate change, at current rates, will pose increasingly severe challenges to development. By century …

A Development Emergency: the title of this year's Global Monitoring Report, the sixth in an annual series, could not be … development crisis. No region is immune. The poor countries are especially vulnerable, as they have the least cushion to withstand …

This is the fifteenth in the annual series assessing major development issues. The World Development Report 1992 … report includes the World Development Indicators, which offer selected social and economic statistics on 125 countries. … explores the links between economic development and the environment. The 1990 report on poverty, last year's report on …

"Institutions are a major field of interest in the study of development processes. The authors contribute to this … discussion concentrating our research on political institutions and their effect on the non-income dimensions of human … development. First, they elaborate a theoretical argument why and under what conditions democracies compared to autocratic …