This work is an at-a-glance guide to the world's most pressing development issues - with maps, tables, and graphs that bring to life key social, economic, and environmental data for 208 countries and territories. These maps highlight the most important development statistics - from population, poverty, aid, trade, and national wealth - to life ......
connectivity and logistics to sustain Bangladesh's success
The erosion of its competitiveness is raising concerns about the sustainability of Bangladesh's growth model based on exports of ready-made garments. To safeguard its comparative advantage in ready-made garments and diversify its exports basket, Bangladesh needs to increase its competitiveness. Improving logistics performance is an important lever ......
Earthquakes, droughts, floods, and storms are natural hazards, but unnatural disasters are the deaths and damages that result from human acts of omission and commission. Every disaster is unique, but each exposes actions-by individuals and governments at different levels-that, had they been different, would have resulted in fewer deaths and less ......
Nature's Paradox is about the intersection of two major crises of the 21st century; the sustainability crisis and the social exclusion and inequality crisis. It explores the disproportionate impact that environmental decline is having on excluded populations, and presents solutions for bringing environmental justice to underrepresented ......
Too often, discussions of development lose sight of the most important goal: to better the lives of individuals and families and improve conditions in the developing world. In this vivid photo book, the human face of development work is brought to the fore. Behind the photos, the human style, and the quotes from Bank Group staff and country ......
Eliminer Les inegalites Structurelles Pour Accelerer La Reduction De LaPauvrete En Afrique
Les sources structurelles des inegalites en Afrique sont enracinees dans les lois, les institutions et les pratiques qui creent des avantages pour quelques-uns, mais des desavantages pour beaucoup d?autres.
The official source for the latest global estimates of poverty and shared prosperity. Each report also expands on a particular theme. As the world continues to make progress in eradicating poverty, efforts to monitor progress in reaching our goals will need to bring greater attention to ensuring that no one is left unaccounted for, that everyone ......
This report begins by evaluating Africa's data landscape to monitor poverty. It maps out and assesses in detail the availability and quality of the data needed to track monetary poverty (expenditures, prices, GDP) and also reflects on the governance and political processes that underpin the current situation. Carrying the work from the first ......
