boosted large parts of the global economy, into the initial phase of a recovery in 2002. Nonetheless, the global recovery is … promising. Although global competition is creating new opportunities for developing countries, harnessing globalization requires …

-income countries. Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic developments and …

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Overview; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Prospects for the Global Economy; Figures …; Tables; Chapter 2 The Coming Globalization; Boxes; Chapter 3 Income Distribution, Inequality, and Those Left Behind; Chapter …Over the next 25 years developing countries will move to center stage in the global economy. Global Economic Prospects …

Global Economic Prospects 2008: Technology Diffusion in the Developing World examines the state of technology in … of strong growth and a 15 year period of strong performance in much of the developing world, which has contributed to …

The proliferation of regional trade agreements is fundamentally altering the world trade landscape. The number of … can have adverse effects on excluded countries. Lowering of border barriers around the world is crucial to minimizing … these effects. The completion of the Doha Development Agenda by all countries in the World Trade Organization will reduce …

prospects and ways globalization links the fates of industrial and developing countries. The report then considers issues in …

in the developing world. First, the crisis has increased poverty in the East Asian crisis countries, Brazil, and the … commodity prices that began in 1996. Chapter 4 examines how the most commodity-dependent economies in the world--the major oil …