Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- Overview -- Part I. Monitoring global development progress -- Development progress over the MDG period has been impressive -- Despite solid development gains, significant work remains -- Amid...

PREFACE -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- SUMMARY -- BACKGROUND -- MAJOR FINDINGS -- U.S. Economic Assistance Overseas -- Public Knowledge and Attitudes About Global Demographic Trends -- Specific Issues -- Congressional Actions -- IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH COMMUNICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ACRONYMS --...

The Global Monitoring Report 2015/2016: Development Goals in an Era of Demographic Change details the progress toward the global development goals and examines the impact of demographic change on achieving these goals. Part I examines global development progress, the unfinished development...

For the past 40 years, the most dynamic economies in the world were China and India. From approx. 5% of US GDP level, China grows to 26% and India to 11% of current US levels. The ratio of foreign trade to GDP is similar for both countries as well as capital flows to GDP. So why did China...