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 …

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

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 …

: World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law -- Improving governance to meet today's development challenges … world -- Transnationalism and the domestic policy arena -- Transnational rules and regulations: Enhanced cooperation and …

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 …

effectiveness of the state:what it should do, how it should do it, and how it can improve in a rapidly changing world. Governments …

This World Development Report examines the transition of countries with alternative systems of centrally planned … economies back to a market orientation. These countries seceded from the world market economy between 1917 and 1950 and now face …