The hard facts you need to know about the critical issues of our time and the consequences of inaction
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<li>Current global challenges—issues such as AIDS, poverty, migration, CO2 emissions, and population pressures presented in clear maps, graphs, and photographs</li>
<li>Country comparisons—at-a-glance key social development indicators, including economic growth, life expectancy, infant mortality, safe water, population below the poverty line, and energy efficiency</li>
<li>Authoritative statistics—data from the World Bank's World Development Indicators, the leading source for economic and social statistics worldwide</li>
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The Global Citizen's Handbook: Facing Our World's Crises and Challenges

World Bank, The

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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.

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Economics

Oxford University Press

The 1986 edition of this incomparable resource examines international agricultural trade, including such crucial topics as agricultural policies in industrial countries, international initiative in agricultural trade, trade and economic policies in developing countries and taxes, subsidies, and marketing. Full-color charts, an annotated bibliography, and an annex of World Development Indicators citing the most up-to-date information on developing nations contribute to the outstanding merit of this series.

World Development Report 1986 (World Bank Development Report)

Recognized as an indispensable resource for policymakers, economists, journalists, and professionals of all kinds, the World Development Report continues to survey and synthesize contemporary economic issues in developed and developing countries. The 1988 Report surveys opportunities and risks in adjustment and growth worldwide, with a special section on public finance in growth development, providing an up-to-date, informative analysis of recent trends with an abundance of supporting data. As always, the 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.

World Development Report 1988 (World Bank Development Report)

This economic study of current developments on a worldwide scale will benefit economists, planners and policy-makers, bankers and business people, journalists and all those concerned with development studies.

World Development Report 1989 (World Bank Development Report)

Now in its thirteenth annual edition, the World Development Report 1990 is an essential reference on the world economy and the state of social and economic development. Like earlier editions, the 1990 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. Beginning with a review of developments in the world economy during the 1980s, the 1990 Report reassesses the role of public policy in reducing poverty in the developing world and describes how pricing and public investment, the delivery of social services, the provision of transfers and safety nets, and tradeoffs and complimentarities can contribute to a poverty-reducing strategy. With its timely survey and synthesis of contemporary economic issues around the world, the World Development Report 1990 is invaluable to readers and policymakers interested in economic development, international economics, and international politics.

World Development Report 1990 (World Bank Development Report)

World Development Report 1992: Development and the Environment (World Bank Development Report)

Now in its fifteenth annual edition, the World Development Report 1992 is an essential reference on the world economy and the state of social and economic development. Like earlier editions, the 1992 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. This edition focuses on environmental issues, analyzing key linkages between the natural environment and economic growth, population, and poverty, and assessing policy and program options for promoting sustainable development and good stewardship of natural resources. A timely survey and synthesis of contemporary economic issues worldwide, the World Development Report 1992 is invaluable to anyone interested in or concerned with economic development, international economics, and international politics.

This annual reference work on the world economy and the state of social and economic development focuses on environmental issues. It analyzes key linkages between the natural environment and economic growth, population and poverty. It also assesses policy and programme options for promoting sustainable development and the stewardship of natural resources.

Now in its sixteenth annual edition, the World Development Report 1993 is an essential reference on the world economy and the state of social and economic development. Like earlier editions, the 1993 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 national health policies worldwide and measures their success in improving health and reducing costs, describing approaches governments can take to improve the health of the poor. For the first time including available data for selected countries of the former Soviet Union and the Eastern and Central European economies, the World Development Indicators contain the most comprehensive and up-to-date data on health and economic development in more than 185 countries. Two appendices assess the global burden of disease and supplementary statistics concerned with financing and delivering health services. A timely survey and synthesis of contemporary economic issues worldwide, the World Development Report 1993 is invaluable to anyone interested in or concerned with economic development, international economics, and international politics.

World Development Report 1993: Investing in Health (World Bank Development Report)

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The Global Citizen's Handbook: Facing Our World's Crises and Challenges

World Development Report 1981 (World Bank Development Report)

World Development Report 1986 (World Bank Development Report)

World Development Report 1988 (World Bank Development Report)

World Development Report 1989 (World Bank Development Report)

World Development Report 1990 (World Bank Development Report)

World Development Report 1992: Development and the Environment (World Bank Development Report)

World Development Report 1992: Development and the Environment (World Bank Development Report)

World Development Report 1993: Investing in Health (World Bank Development Report)

World Development Report 1993: Investing in Health (World Bank Development Report)