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

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 …

the Climate for Development -- The case for action -- A climate-smart world is within reach if we act now, act together … ahead to 2050: Which world? -- Focus B: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate -- 3 Managing Land and … Energizing Development without Compromising the Climate -- Balancing competing objectives -- Where the world needs to go …

The World Development Report 2011 on conflict, security and development will look at conflict as a challenge to … to school, infants dying and mothers dying in childbirth in the developing world live in countries at risk or, affected …

come at the expense of jobs in other countries? The World Development Report 2013: Jobs offers answers to these and other …. Policy fundamentals matter in all cases, as they enable a vibrant private sector, the source of most jobs in the world. Labor …

The past 25 years have witnessed unprecedented changes around the world - many of them for the better. Across the … improved living standards and scientific and cultural sharing across nations. As the world changes, a host of opportunities … and endanger the social and economic reforms that produced these gains. The World Development Report 2014 (WDR 2014), Risk …

shared histories. The World Development Report 2015 offers a concrete look at how these insights apply to development policy …

governance features such as corruption. The World Development Report 2005 argues that improving the investment climates of their … data from the World Bank's new program of Investment Climate Surveys, the Bank's Doing Business Project, and World …

, this year's World Development Report, argues that services can be improved by putting poor people at the center of service … resources are of course necessary, but they are not enough. The World Development Report provides a practical framework for …

This eighteenth annual report assesses what a more market-driven and integrated world means for workers. It asks which … world's work force - but no guarantees. Sound domestic and international policies are indispensable for realizing the … reaching those left out. This report includes the World Development Indicators …