World Economic and Social Survey

2012 Absorbing Innovative Financial Flows: Looking at Asia Rehman Sobhan Download Paper Adopting a Currency Transaction Tax When Avoidance is a Possibility: Which Currencies Would Take the Lead and What Rate Could they Charge? David Stubbs Download Pap ...

The Great Green Technological Transformation To meet both the global development objectives of conquering poverty and protecting the environment, the World Economic and Social Survey 2011 calls for a complete transformation of technology on which human ...

2011 Agricultural innovation for food security and environmental sustainability in the context of the recent economic crisis: Why a gender perspective? Diana Alarc

Retooling Global Development The World Economic and Social Survey 2010 highlights the systemic weakness unmasked by the recent global crises and proposes reforms in international arrangements to eliminate these deficiencies and gaps in global governanc ...

2010 Development in an interdependent world: old issues, new directions? John Toye Download Paper Economic integration, inequality and growth: Theory and comparative assessment Giovanni Andrea Cornia Download Paper Energy Intensity, Greenhouse Gas, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Overcoming Economic Insecurity The World Economic and Social Survey 2008 offers a different perspective on economic insecurity—one that utilizes more proactive and coherent policy responses, at both national and international levels, to help communitie ...

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