World Development Report 1978 (World Bank Development Report)

Business & Money

The World Bank

Rao, D. C.

Stern, Ernest (Ed.)

McNamara, Robert F. (Forwrd.)

Economics

Oxford University Press

World Development Report 1981 (World Bank Development Report)

This is the eighteenth annual edition of the World Development Report. It is a reference work for international economic data. This edition contains a special section on labour policy and market-based strategies as a means of raising the living standards of workers.

Now in its fourteenth annual edition, the World Development Report 1991 is an essential reference on the world economy and the state of social and economic development. Like earlier editions, the 1991 Report is an essential reference on the world economy and the state of social and economic development. Like earlier editions, the 1991 Report incorporates research from all over the world, analyzing the conditions that surround the growth process and offering insights on appropriate policy measures for the future. Assessing the experience of developing as well as industrial countries to delineate major factors that contribute to development, this edition addresses policy and analytical issues in the areas of human resource development, openness, competition and technology, microeconomic dynamism, macroeconomic sustainability, and the appropriate role of the state. Drawing on the lessons in these areas, it explores reform, external assistance, and development possibilities for the 1990s. A timely survey and synthesis of contemporary economic issues worldwide, the World Development Report 1991 is invaluable to readers and policymakers interested in economic development, international economics, and international politics.

World Development Report 1991: The Challenge of Development (World Bank Development Report)

Now in its fourteenth annual edition, the World Development Report 1991 is an essential reference on the world economy and the state of social and economic development. This year's report is entitled 'The Challenge of Development Society', and it gives an in-depth, historical look at economic development since the end of World War II. It asks why economic development has varied so widely and how its pace and quality can be enhanced. Economic development is a sustained improvement in welfare - in per capita income and in such areas of social development as education, nutrition, life expectancy, and health. Culture, religion, values, natural resources, and the socio-political and historical contexts all play a part. WDR 1991 assesses the experience of developing as well as industrial countries to delineate the major factors that contribute to development. The analysis will focus on various country groupings and individual case studies. It will also consider the long-term environmental consequences of alternative development strategies.

Management & Leadership

Now in its seventeenth annual edition, the World Development Report is an essential reference on the world economy and the state of social and economic development. Like earlier editions, the 1994 Report incorporates research from all over the world, analyzing the conditions that surround the growth process and offering insights on appropriate policy measures for the future. Drawing on the latest Bank research, this edition examines the importance of infrastructure in economic development, including sections on creating incentives to improve services in the public sector, creating market-oriented solutions to improving infrastructure, protecting the environment while reducing poverty, financing private initiatives in building infrastructure, and setting priorities in infrastructure reform. As always, the World Development Indicators contain the most comprehensive and up-to-date data on health and economic development in more than 185 countries. A timely survey and synthesis of contemporary economic issues worldwide, the World Development Report 1994 is invaluable to anyone interested in or concerned with economic development, international economics, and international politics.

World Development Report 1994: Infrastructure for Development (World Bank Development Report)

World Development Report 1997: The State in a Changing World (World Bank Development Report)

According to The World Bank the state is under attack. Its freedom in policy-making is being circumscribed by globalization and its dominion in the domestic arena is being challenged on many fronts. New technology and accumulated governmental failure have pulled the private sector into many areas which were considered the preserve of the state, and non-governmental organizations have intervened to deliver services better, faster, and cheaper than the state bureaucracy. Known as the standard reference for international economic data, the twentieth annual edition of the World Development Report focuses on the role of the state in a changing world. As in the past, a set of Selected World Development Indicators are provided as an appendix to the Report, presenting social and economic statistics for more than 200 countries. Moving well beyond basic economics, the Report deals with the challenging issue of political economy and institutional reform, moving from the what and why of reform to the when and how. The World Bank asserts that there is a rich record of state sector reform, but there are few tested rules. And because the structure of the state is also changing, issues of fiscal federalism have been brought to the forefront of the policy debate in the context of assertive regional and local authorities. The World Bank has worked on many of theses issues and has accumulated a wealth of operational experience. It will now mobilize its resources to gain even more knowledge. The World Bank also plans to collaborate with several national and international agencies, building partnerships to address the tough practical questions of selectivity and implementation. The information in the Report will be used to explore on-going research from the Department of Economics at The World Bank, which examines issues of efficacy and efficiency in public expenditures and addresses the role of public management and the organization of civil service. Perhaps most important, the Report will have major implications for The World Bank and the donor community more generally as they collectively try to help countries find the right balance between public and private action and define the scope, modality, and organization of public management and responsibility.

The world's financial markets are rapidly integrating into a single global marketplace, and developing countries are being drawn into this process starting from different points and moving at various speeds. Those with adequate institutions and sound policies in place may proceed smoothly along the road toward financial integration and gain the many benefits that integration can bring. Most of the developing economies lack many of the necessary prerequisites for such a move; a few are so unprepared that integration may do them more harm than good. Developing countries may have little choice about whether to follow this path--advances in communications and new developments in finance have made the course inevitable--but they may still choose the ways in which they proceed, choosing the policies that benefit the economy and averting potential shocks.   This World Bank report looks at the important challenges both sets of countries face in a new age of global capital. The book presents new and compelling evidence that, while low interest rates in industrial countries provided an initial impetus to the surge in private capital flows during 1989-93, these flows have entered a new phase, driven by increased financial integration. The report analyzes the causes and effects of integration, with a particular emphasis on how developing countries in the nascent stages of integration can learn from the experiences of the more rapidly integrating developing countries.   The first half of the report provides the setting, analyzing the process of financial integration, the forces driving private capital to developing countries, and the potential benefits of integration. The second half looks at the domestic policy challenges that developing countries must overcome, including the macroeconomic problems of an overheating economy, reforms in the domestic financial sector, and the agenda for capital market reform.

Private Capital Flows to Developing Countries: The Road to Financial Integration (World Bank Policy Research Report)

The seventh biennial issue of the most authoritative survey of the global environment brings together in a highly readable format the latest ideas on a broad spectrum of urban environmental issues and suggests strategies for addressing them. The authors pool the vast resources of the World Resources Institute, the United Nations Development and Environment Programmes, and the World Bank to analyze the impact of urban development on human health and welfare, on the environment, and on economic performance. 
The report looks at the sprawling cities of the developing world such as Manila, where 76% of the population inhabits unauthorized housing; at the disintegrating metropolitan landscape in the northeastern U.S., spotlighting Philadelphia, where over 20% of the population subsists below the poverty level; and at the rapidly industrializing cities in Eastern Europe such as Katowice in Poland, where child mortality is 1.5 times the national average. In addition, the 1996-97 edition presents the most recent data and compares conditions and trends in developed (Northern) and developing (Southern) cities, exploring similarities and differences in the nature of environmental problems and their possible solutions. 
True to its reputation as the definitive reference on the world environment, the new Report includes up-to-date tables and analysis on numerous topics, including basic economic indicators, forests and rangelands, atmosphere and climate, biodiversity, and water resources. Key data on more than 150 countries are included. This indispensible resource arms decision-makers with valuable information for the development of policies that effectively manage the global environment and natural resources.

World Resources 1996-97

World Resources Institute

The United Nations Environment Programme

The United Nations Development Programme

India: Reducing Poverty, Accelerating Development

This report on India for 2000 focuses on poverty reduction and sustainable development.

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World Development Report 1978 (World Bank Development Report)

World Development Report 1981 (World Bank Development Report)

World Development Report 1991: The Challenge of Development (World Bank Development Report)

World Development Report 1991: The Challenge of Development (World Bank Development Report)

World Development Report 1994: Infrastructure for Development (World Bank Development Report)

World Development Report 1997: The State in a Changing World (World Bank Development Report)

World Development Report 1997: The State in a Changing World (World Bank Development Report)

Private Capital Flows to Developing Countries: The Road to Financial Integration (World Bank Policy Research Report)

World Resources 1996-97

India: Reducing Poverty, Accelerating Development