This year's Word Development Report (WDR), the twenty-eighth, looks at the role of equity in the development process. It defines equity in terms of two basic principles. The first is equal opportunities: that a person's chances in life should be determined by his or her talents and efforts,...

This third edition of the Global Monitoring Report examines the commitments and actions of donors, international financial institutions, and developing countries to implement the Millennium Declaration, signed by 189 countries in 2000. Many countries are off track to meet the Millennium...

International private capital flows to developing countries reached a record net level of 491 billion in 2005. This surge in private capital flows offers national and international policy makers a major opportunity to bolster development efforts if they can successfully meet three challenges....

The 2008 financial crisis has raised a number of questions about the best strategy for achieving sustained growth and poverty reduction in developing countries, foremost among them whether the failure of the financial system also signifies the broader failure of market-oriented capitalist...

This book focuses on how the demand for microfinance can be met on a global scale. It documents the contributions of institutions and of people who have led the development of commercial finance for the poor, and it analyzes the principles on which the microfinance revolution is based. In sum,...

Moving Out of Poverty: Rising from the Ashes of Conflict, is the fourth volume from the Moving Out of Poverty series launched in 2007 is under the editorial direction of Deepa Narayan, Senior Advisor of the World Bank and former director of the pathbreaking Voices of the Poor series. It features...

Investing to promote agricultural growth and poverty reduction is a central pillar of the World Bank's current rural strategy, Reaching the Rural Poor (2003). One major thrust of the strategy outlines the priorities and the approaches that the public sector, private sector, and civil society can...

Cover -- SOCIOECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF BIOFUELS: Evidence from Developing Nations -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Part One: Global overview -- 1: Biofuels at the confluence of energy security, rural development, and food...

Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part I: Towards a New Development Paradigm -- 1. The Missing People in Development Planning -- 2. The Human Development Paradigm -- 3. The Advent of the Human Development Report -- 4. The Birth of the Human Development Index -- 5. The Design of a Political...

Intro -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- Part I: Hunger in the Modern World -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Past and Present -- 1.2 Famine and Chronic Undernourishment -- 1.3 Some Elementary Concepts -- 1.4 Public Action for Social Security -- 2 Entitlement and...