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1 online resource (469 pages)
ISBN:
9780821373859
Content:
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.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- MDGs at Midpoint -- Development and Environmental Sustainability -- Inclusive and Sustainable Development: A Six-Point Agenda -- 1. Sustain and broaden the growth momentum -- 2. Achieve better results in human development -- 3. Integrate development and environmental sustainability -- 4. Scale up aid and increase its effectiveness -- 5. Harness trade for strong, inclusive, and sustainable growth -- 6. Leverage IFI support for inclusive and sustainable development -- Overview -- Introduction -- MDGs at Midpoint: Significant Progress, Yet Formidable Challenges -- Poverty reduction: strong but uneven progress -- Human development goals: more serious shortfalls -- Overall outlook: daunting challenges, but grounds for hope -- Development and Environmental Sustainability: Integrally Linked -- Sound natural resource management essential -- Climate change: poor countries most affected -- Inclusive and Sustainable Development: A Six-Point Agenda -- 1. Sustaining and Broadening the Growth Momentum -- Implications of Global Economic Developments -- Financial turbulence, global slowdown -- Rise in oil and food prices -- Policies and Institutions for Strong and Inclusive Growth -- The growth agenda in Africa -- Managing natural resource revenues -- Rise in income inequalities: Is globalization to blame? -- 2. Achieving Better Results in Human Development -- Raising quality of health services -- Achieving more equitable outcomes -- Tackling malnutrition -- Addressing environmental health risks -- 3. Integrating Development and Environmental Sustainability -- Moving forward on mitigation -- Strengthening adaptation: vital for developing countries -- Financing mitigation and adaptation -- Institutional strengthening.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821373842
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe MDGs and the environment Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2008 ISBN 9780821373842
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English
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