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World development report 2003 - sustainable development in a dynamic world : transforming institutions, growth, and quality of life

Country:	World;	Date Stored:	2004/02/14
Document Date:	2002/08/31	Document Type:	World Development Report
ISBN:	0-8213-5150-8	Language:	English
Major Sector:	(Historic)Sector not applicable	Region:	The World Region
Report Number:	24705	Sub Sectors:	(Historic)Sector not applicable
SubTopics:	Environmental Economics & Policies; Economic Theory & Research; Agricultural Research; Poverty Assessment; Health Economics & Finance	Volume No:	1 of 1

Summary: Three billion people will be added to the world's population over the next 50 years and 2.8 billion people today already live on less than $2 a day-almost all in developing countries. Ensuring these people have access to productive work and a better quality of life is the core development challenge of the first half of this century. Growth could itself be jeopardized over the longer term, unless a transformation of society and the management of the environment are addressed integrally with economic growth. Now in its 25th edition, this year's World Development Report examines, over a 50 year period, the relationship between competing policy objectives of reducing poverty, maintaining growth, improving social cohesion, and protecting the environment. The World Development Report 2003 emphasizes that many good policies have been identified but not implemented due to distributional issues and barriers to developing better institutions. The Report reviews institutional innovations that might help overcome these barriers and stresses that ensuring economic growth and improved management of the planet's ecosystem requires a reduction in poverty and inequality at all levels: local, national, and international. As in previous years, the report contains an appendix of selected indicators from the World Development Indicators.


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	PDF 16 pages	Bibliographic Note	0.12
	PDF 11 pages	Roadmap	0.23
	PDF 12 pages	Chap. 1	0.10
	PDF 24 pages	Chap. 2	0.32
	PDF 22 pages	Chap. 3	0.18
	PDF 24 pages	Chap. 4	0.20
	PDF 24 pages	Chap. 5	0.16
	PDF 26 pages	Chap. 6	0.19
	PDF 24 pages	Chap. 7	0.18
	PDF 26 pages	Chap. 8	0.17
	PDF 15 pages	Chap. 9	0.12
	PDF 18 pages	References	0.12

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