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1 September 2009
Promoting Development, Saving the Planet The World Economic and Social Survey 2009 argues that mitigation and adaptation efforts can better move forward as part of a development strategy built around a massive investment-led transformation, along low-c ...
20 June 2009
2009 Adapting to climate change in developing countries: institutional and policy responses for urbanizing societies E. Lisa F. Schipper Download Paper Adaptation to Climate Change: Re-examining climate and development risks Shiv Someshwar Download Pap ...
20 June 2008
2008 Assessing the success of microinsurance programmes in meeting the insurance needs of the poor Paul Mosley Download Paper Financial Instability and Countercyclical Policy Yilmaz Aky
20 June 2007
2007 Population Aging, Wealth, and Economic Growth: Demographic Dividends and Public Policy Ronald Lee and Andrew Mason Download Paper Projection of health care expenditure by disease: a case study from Australia Theo Vos, John Goss, Stephen Begg and N ...
1 July 2006
Diverging Growth and Development By many measures, world inequality is high and rising. The main reason is that in the industrialized world the income level over the last five decades has grown steadily, while it has failed to do so in many developing ...
20 June 2006
2006 Developing and Transition Economies in the Late 20th Century: Diverging Growth Rates, Economic Structures, and Sources of Demand Codrina Rada and Lance Taylor Download Paper Governance, Economic Growth and Development since the 1960s Mushtaq H. Kh ...
1 July 2005
Financing for Development The World Economic and Social Survey 2005 focuses on the Monterrey Consensus as the current framework for international cooperation for development. The report examines the correspondingly broad agenda for action that was set ...
15 December 1999
1999 World Economic and Social Survey 1999—Trends and Policies in the World Economy Part one: State of the World Economy Part one of World Economic and Social Survey 1999 provides a chronicle of how large parts of the world economy were sent reeling in ...
15 December 1989
1989 World Economic Survey 1989—Current Trends and Policies in the World Economy According to World Economic Survey 1989, global economic growth in 1988 confounded expectations. Not only was the expansion of world output larger than expected, but inter ...

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