Global monitoring report 2008 : MDGs and the environment : agenda for inclusive and sustainable development.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

World Bank.

Contributor:

World Bank.

Series:

Global Monitoring Report

World Bank e-Library.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global warming.

Climatic changes.

Global environmental change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Global monitoring report 2008 : MDGs and climate change

MDGs and the environment: agenda for inclusive ans sustainable development

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2008.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Global Monitoring Report 2008, the fifth in an annual series, is essential reading for those who wish to follow the global development agenda and debate in 2008. The year marks the midpoint toward the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is also an important year to work toward a consensus on how the world is going to respond to the challenge of climate change, building on the foundation laid at the Bali climate change conference in December 2007. The report spans this agenda. It provides a comprehensive assessment of progress toward the MDGs and related policies and actions. It addresses the challenge of climate change and environmental sustainability and assesses its implications for development. The report's assessment of MDGs at midpoint presents a mixed picture, one of both significant progress and formidable challenges. The first MDG, reducing extreme poverty by half, is likely to be met at the global level, thanks to a remarkable surge in global economic growth over the past decade. But, on current trends, the human development MDGs are unlikely to be met. Prospects are gravest for the goals of reducing child and maternal mortality, but shortfalls are also likely in the primary school completion. nutrition, and sanitation MDGs. The potential effects of climate change compound the challenge of achieving the development goals and sustaining progress. The report's messages are clear: urgent action is needed to help the world get back on track to achieve the MDGs; and urgent action is also needed to combat climate change that threatens the well-being of all countries, but particularly of poor countries and poor people. The goals of development and environmental sustainability are closely related, and the paths to those goals have important synergies.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Executive Summary; Overview; Box 0.1 MDGs and the environment; Part I Monitoring the Development Agenda; Figure 1 At the global level, progress and prospects vary widely across MDGs; Box 1 Assessing whether countries are on or off track; Figure 2 Progress toward MDGs is slowest in fragile states; Figure 3 Most countries are off track to meet most MDGs; Box 2 Statistical capacity building: furthering progress; Table 1.1 Summary of world output; Box 1.1 Recent revisions of purchasing power parities

Box 1.2 The recent financial market turbulenceFigure 1.1 Poverty head count; Figure 1.2 Per capita GDP growth rates by country group, 2003-07; Figure 1.3 Number of emerging-market and developing countries by annual real GDP per capita growth rates, 2003-07; Box 1.3 Growth in Africa: rising but uneven; Figure 1.4 Commodity price indexes, 1991-2007; Figure 1.5 Terms-of-trade changes by country group, 1991-2007; Box 1.4 Management of natural resource revenues; Figure 1.6 Real per capita GDP growth rate for low-growth fragile states, adjusted for terms-of-trade changes, 1991-2007

Box 1.5 Impact of oil price increases on low-income countriesBox 1.6 Rising food prices and their policy implications; Figure 1.7 Annual change in Gini coefficient in 59 developing countries; Figure 1.8 Decompositions of change in the Gini coefficient; Box 1.7 Vietnam: Growth with equality leads to dramatic success in reducing poverty; Table 1.2 Net financial flows to developing countries; Table 1.3 International remittances; Box 1.8 Private remittances: positive effects and risks; Box 1.9 The Commission on Growth and Development

Table 1.4 The quality of macroeconomic policies in low-income countries, 2003-07Table 1.5 Status of investment climate reform, 2003-07; Figure 1.9 Average ranking of "ease of doing business," by region and income group; Table 1.6 Low coverage and high cost of Africa's infrastructure; Figure 1.10 Aggregate labor productivity gains in Latin America, by firm size; Box 1.10 Institutions, inequality, and growth; Figure 1.11 CPIA governance indicators, 2000-06; Table 1.7 Total per capita wealth and its components, by developing region and economy type, 2005

Table 1.8 Per capita natural wealth and its components, by developing region and economy type, 2005Figure 1.12 GDP growth vs. adjusted net savings; Figure 1.13 Adjusted net saving trends, 1990-2005; Table 1.9 Adjustments to savings, 2005; Table 2.1 Selected measures of health inequality, by region and income group, 2000-present; Figure 2.1 Regional disparities in primary school completion and participation, 1990-2005; Box 2.1 Comparing inequality in health in India and Mali; Figure 2.2 Incidence of public health spending on poorest and richest quintiles, 1989-2001

Figure 2.3 Incidence of public education spending on poorest and richest quintiles, 1985-2001

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786611787400

9781462332076

1462332072

9781455287987

1455287989

9781281787408

128178740X

9780821373859

0821373854

OCLC:

277617980