Intro -- Contents -- About This Book -- Introduction -- Opening Address -- A Strategy for Development -- Globalization and Inequality -- Globalization and Inequality: Historical Trends -- Fear of Globalization: The Human Capital Nexus -- Growth and Inequality: The Role of Foreign Trade and...

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Opening Address -- Development Thinking at the Millennium -- A New Global Consensus on Helping the Poorest of the Poor -- Ten Years After The Road to a Free Economy: The AuthorÌs Self- Evaluation -- Consensus Building, Knowledge, and Conditionality --...

Despite significant gains in promoting economic growth and living conditions (or "human progress") globally over the last twenty-five years, much of the developing world remains plagued by poverty and its attendant problems, including high rates of child mortality, illiteracy, environmental...

These are the proceedings of the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, which gathers the global perspective of scholars, and practitioners of development policy from academic life, government, and the private sector. The selected topics seek to include new areas of concern, and...

The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics is a forum for discussion, and debate of important policy issues facing developing countries. This report for 2001-2002 focuses on two main themes, based on papers presented, and discussions that followed: 1) globalization and inequality,...

This book is about a collection of speeches -all delivered since Nicholas Stern became Chief Economist of the World Bank in July 2000- they reflect insights that Mr. Stern has gained over more than three decades of study and work in development economics. Together they provide an analysis of...