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Format: 1 online resource (250 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-280-08495-2 , 9786610084951 , 1-4175-2620-3

Series Statement: Global Monitoring Report

Content: The turn of the century was marked by some significant and promising events for world development. The Millennium Declaration - signed by 189 countries in September 2000 - led to the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals, which set clear targets for eradicating poverty and other sources of human deprivation. Following other major international meetings came broad agreement on the goals and strategies to achieve them. The task now is implementation - to translate vision into action. Drawing attention to priorities for action and related accountabilities, the new Global Monitoring Report provides an integrated assessment of the policies and actions needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Produced in cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other international partners, the Report assesses how the various parties-developing countries, developed countries, and international financial institutions-are playing their part under the agreed development partnership and highlights progress on the development policy agenda.

Note: Prepared jointly by The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. , Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) -- Overview: From Vision to Action -- PART I Framework -- 1 Monitoring Framework -- 2 MDG Prospects: Reasons for Optimism, Grave Concerns -- PART II Developing-Country Policies -- 3 Overall Picture -- 4 Improving Enabling Climate for Growth: Economic and Financial Policies -- 5 Upgrading Public Sector Governance -- 6 Strengthening Infrastructure -- 7 Accelerating Human Development -- 8 Promoting Environmental Sustainability -- PART III Developed-Country Policies -- 9 Fostering Growth and Stability: Macro-financial Policies -- 10 Dismantling Barriers to Trade -- 11 Providing More and Better Aid -- 12 Fulfilling Responsibilities for Global Public Goods -- PART IV Role of International Financial Institutions -- 13 Monitoring the IFIs' Contribution -- References -- Boxes -- Millennium Development Goals -- 1.1 An action plan for improving development statistics -- 1.2 Strengthening the links between PRSPs and the MDGs -- 2.1 East Asia and Pacific: Despite solid performance on MDGs, challenges remain -- 5.1 Improving fiscal transparency through ROSCs -- 5.2 The African Peer Review Mechanism: self-assessing governance -- 5.3 Governance in Africa-progress on a difficult agenda -- 6.1 Water supply and sanitation in the MDGs -- 7.1 Rwanda: HIV/AIDS and health expenditures -- 7.2 The case of the missing money: monitoring public expenditure -- 7.3 The Bangladesh Female Secondary School Assistance Program -- 8.1 Multisectoral interventions to achieve the MDGs: lessons from child mortality in rural India -- 8.2 The United Nations Task Force on Environmental Sustainability -- 9.1 Differences between remittances and capital flows -- 10.1 The EU's Common Agricultural Policy reform. , 10.2 Lessons from Integrated Framework diagnostic trade integration studies -- 11.1 Estimating the cost of the MDGs -- 11.2 Measuring aid selectivity -- 11.3 Vietnam's comprehensive government-led harmonization program -- 12.1 International Task Force on Global Public Goods -- 12.2 Progress toward environmental sustainability through performance review and peer pressure -- 12.3 International environmental agreements: toward global cooperation, with some notable exceptions -- 13.1 Framework for assessing IFI contributions -- 13.2 Results-based CAS -- 13.3 Proposed IDA14 results-measurement system -- 13.4 Sectorwide approach to primary education development -- Figures -- 1.1 Framework linking policies and actions with development outcomes -- 1.2 Monitoring: dimensions of developing-country policies -- 1.3 Monitoring: dimensions of developed-country policies -- 1.4 Monitoring: dimensions of development agency support -- 2.1 Growth prospects improve, but not enough -- 2.2 Most regions will reach the goal of halving poverty by 2015, but Sub-Saharan Africa is seriously off track -- 2.3 Mortality at a given level of national income has been declining -- 2.4 A few regions are close to the target on primary education: others are off track -- 2.5 Prospects for reaching the child mortality goal are dim -- 2.6 Reform combined with stronger partner support can substantially boost prospects for achieving the MDGs -- 3.1 Developing countries' policies have improved -- governance and institutions lag -- 3.2 Other ratings corroborate that developing-country policies have improved but that governance and institutions lag -- 3.3 The transition countries are making broad progress in removing obstacles to business -- 3.4 The developing-country policy diamond shows progress, but much more is needed. , 4.1 Faster growing countries typically have better macroeconomic policies -- 4.2 Better-off countries tend to restrict trade less -- 4.3 Overall policy on trade in services remains more restrictive in developing countries -- 4.4 Heavy regulation is associated with lower productivity -- 4.5 Heavier regulation contributes to the informal economy and corruption -- 4.6 More regulation does not necessarily produce better social outcomes -- 4.7 Protecting property rights is associated with more credit -- 4.8 Poor countries regulate the most -- 4.9 Low-income countries lag far behind best practice in promoting business -- 4.10 Low-income countries lag the most in property rights and rule of law -- 4.11 Countries are improving their private business environment -- 4.12 The financial sector is deepening in the developing world, but at a varying pace -- 4.13 Deposit growth has not been equally reflected in growth in private sector credit -- 4.14 Financial system strength is typically positively correlated with compliance with Basel Core Principles -- 4.15 Capital markets are shallow in low-income countries -- 5.1 The quality of governance is weak but improving in developing countries -- 5.2 Civil liberties are gradually improving in developing countries -- 5.3 Participatory processes are also improving in developing countries -- 6.1 Gaps in infrastructure call for significantly increased spending, which must be managed well for effectiveness -- 7.1 Investment in human capital is up, but more is needed -- 7.2 Developing countries are allocating more public spending to human development -- 7.3 Public spending covers more of the cost of health care in high-income countries than in low-income countries -- 7.4 Public spending on human development often benefits the rich more than the poor -- 7.5 Teachers' salaries absorb most recurrent education spending. , 8.1 Environmental policy ratings are low but improving -- 9.1 A robust global economy requires orderly resolution of the large external and fiscal imbalances -- 9.2 Low-income countries receive little foreign direct investment -- 9.3 Private capital flows to developing countries are recovering, led by debt flows -- 10.1 Potential income gains from trade reforms are large and can help reduce poverty -- 10.2 Escalating tariff rates discourage development -- 10.3 Protection in agriculture is high-a multiple of that in manufacturing -- 10.4 Is overall trade policy pro development? Mixed picture -- 10.5 Potential gains from liberalization of services, especially migration, are large -- 11.1 Aid is rising but is well short of what is needed -- 11.2 The increase in ODA in 2002 was concentrated in special-purpose grants -- 11.3 The proportion of aid provided in cash and more flexible forms should be rising, not falling -- 11.4 Institutions and policies matter for aid effectiveness -- 11.5 More selective donors provide more aid per capita to countries with stronger policies and institutions -- 11.6 Aid fragmentation is high -- 11.7 Aid flows are typically more volatile than fiscal revenues in aid-dependent countries -- 12.1 MDGs and Kyoto Protocol call for reduction of greenhouse emissions, but results tell a different story -- Tables -- 2.1 Growth rates and decline in poverty by region, through 2015 -- 2.2 Projected per capita growth and improvement in poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2000-2015 -- 2.3 Primary education completion rates, progress needed by region -- 2.4 Distance from the goal of gender parity in primary and secondary education, by region, circa 2000 -- 4.1 Macroeconomic indicators for low-income countries, by region, 1983-2008 -- 4.2 Quality of macroeconomic policies for low-income countries, by country characteristics. , 4.3 Macroeconomic indicators for middle-income countries, 1983-2008 -- 4.4 Impact of financial crises on poverty, East Asia, 1997-98 -- 4.5 Decline in tariffs in developing countries, late 1980s to 2003 -- 4.6 Decline in core nontariff barriers in developing countries, 1989-94 to 2000 -- 4.7 Major users of antidumping, developing countries, 1995-2002 -- 4.8 Overall trade restrictiveness of developing-country groups, 2001 -- 4.9 Investment climate, selected low- and middle-income countries, 2002 -- 4.10 Summary of lessons learned from corporate governance assessments -- 4.11 Evolution of selected financial soundness indicators, 1998-2002 -- 5.1 Improvement in public financial management in developing countries, 1999-2003 -- 5.2 Public financial management benchmarks used in HIPC assessments -- 5.3 Central government tax revenue, 1990-2001 -- 5.4 Quality of public sector governance, 1999-2003 -- 5.5 Worldwide governance indicators, 1998-2002 -- 6.1 Distribution of studies according to their findings on impact of infrastructure investment on productivity or growth -- 6.2 Access of population to infrastructure services -- 6.3 Technical quality of infrastructure services -- 6.4 Quality of infrastructure services as perceived by commercial users -- 6.5 Electricity reform in selected countries, 2003 -- 6.6 Expected annual needs for new investment and maintenance in infrastructure, 2005-10 -- 6.7 Private commitments for infrastructure, 1990-2002 -- 7.1 Private health expenditure -- 7.2 Public spending on social protection for selected countries by region -- 7.3 Frequency of attended births by wealth and region, various years -- 8.1 Selected outcome indicators of environmental sustainability by region and country income category -- 9.1 Macroeconomic indicators for advanced economies, 1993-2008 -- 9.2 Global economic environment and developing countries. , 9.3 Remittances to developing countries, by region, 2001-03. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8213-5859-6

Language: English

DOI: 10.1596/0-8213-5859-6