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World Development Report eBook Series

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  • World Development Report 2024

    The Middle-Income Trap

    by World Bank ...
    Series series World Development Report
    Middle-income countries are in a race against time. Many of them have done well since the 1990s to escape low-income levels and eradicate extreme poverty, leading to the perception that the last three decades have been great for development. But the ambition of the more than 100 economies with incomes per capita between US$1,100 and US$14,000 is to reach high-income status within the next ... Read more

    S$ 63.51 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • World Development Report 2010

    Development and Climate Change

    by World Bank ...
    Series series World Development Report
    Today's enormous development challenges are complicated by the reality of climate change-the two are inextricably linked and together demand immediate attention. Climate change threatens all countries, but particularly developing ones. Understanding what climate change means for development policy is the central aim of the World Development Report 2010. Estimates are that developing countries ... Read more

    S$ 25.39 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • World Development Report 2009

    Reshaping Economic Geography

    by World Bank ...
    Series series World Development Report
    Rising densities of human settlements, migration and transport to reduce distances to market, and specialization and trade facilitated by fewer international divisions are central to economic development. The transformations along these three dimensions--density, distance, and division--are most noticeable in North America, Western Europe, and Japan, but countries in Asia and Eastern Europe are ... Read more

    S$ 25.67 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • World Development Report 2021

    Data for Better Lives

    by World Bank ...
    Series series World Development Report
    The unprecedented growth of data and its ubiquity in our daily lives signal that the digital revolution is transforming the world. But much of the value of data remains untapped, waiting to be realized. Data collected for one particular purpose has the potential to generate economic value in applications far beyond those originally anticipated. However, many barriers stand in the way of the ... Read more

    S$ 63.70 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • World Development Report 2019

    The Changing Nature of Work

    by World Bank ...
    Series series World Development Report
    Work is constantly reshaped by technological progress. New ways of production are adopted, markets expand, and societies evolve. But some changes provoke more attention than others, in part due to the vast uncertainty involved in making predictions about the future. The 2019 World Development Report will study how the nature of work is changing as a result of advances in technology today. ... Read more

    S$ 44.45 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • World Development Report 2022

    Finance for an Equitable Recovery

    by World Bank ...
    Series series World Development Report
    The COVID-19 pandemic triggered the largest global economic crisis in more than a century. In 2020, economic activity contracted in 90 percent of countries, the world economy shrank by about 3 percent, and global poverty increased for the first time in a generation. Governments responded rapidly with fiscal, monetary, and financial policies that alleviated the worst immediate economic impacts of ... Read more

    S$ 50.82 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • World Development Report 2022

    Finance for an Equitable Recovery

    by World Bank ...
    Series series World Development Report
    The COVID-19 pandemic triggered the largest global economic crisis in more than a century. In 2020, economic activity contracted in 90 percent of countries, the world economy shrank by about 3 percent, and global poverty increased for the first time in a generation. Governments responded rapidly with fiscal, monetary, and financial policies that alleviated the worst immediate economic impacts of ... Read more

    S$ 38.47 SGD