World Economic and Social Survey

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

Development in an Ageing World The World Economic and Social Survey 2007 analyses the implications of ageing for social and economic development around the world. The ageing of the population offers both challenges and opportunities. Among the most pre ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Part I. Trends and Policies in the World Economy The first part of the World Economic and Social Survey 2004 discusses the state of the world economy in 2004 and the outlook for 2005. It includes a review of developments in international trade and fina ...