The dollar-a-day definition of global destitution made its debut in the bank's 1990 World Development Report.
The World Development Report discusses the problems of child labour and poor families' limited access to financial markets on the same page, yet it fails to make a connection between the two.
World Development Report 2012: Gender, Equality and Development.
Jordan is moving towards increased reliance on groundwater as an alternative to surface water and according to the 4th United Nations World Water Development Report 2012 co-authored by UNESCO, it is the fourth most water scarce country in the world.
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Throughout the world, UNESCO is striving to increase scientific cooperation and strengthen national capacities, through the International Hydrological Programme (IHP) and the World Water Development Report (WWDR).
The combination of rapid population growth and changing diets may increase the demand for food by 70% by 2050, according to the recently released 4th UN World Water Development Report.
Ensure enabling conditions for the preparation of the flagship output of WWAP as well as timely production, launching and dissemination of the triennial World Water Development Report, including the appropriate coordination with other collaborating United Nations agencies within the framework of UN-Water.
Olcay Unver, the WWAP Coordinator, highlighted the related key messages from the 3rd as well as the upcoming 4th editions of the World Water Development Report (WWDR) - to be launched in March 2012 - to the assembled group.
Despite the remaining chasms, The World Bank 2012 Gender Equality and Development report praises some historic disadvantages that have shrunk over the past 50 years.
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Dr Richard Jolly, author of a United Nations Development Programme report comparing standards of living in the world's nations, has ranked the UK ahead of many of its European neighbours, in part because of improvements in its education services.
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Underlying the report's vision for the development banks such as the World Bank is a similarly attractive principle.
The report was done in collaboration with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, sustainability consultancy firm Irbaris, and the Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute.
Even normally cautious bodies like the International Energy Agency and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development are sounding the alarm, with the latter recently releasing a comprehensive report forecasting a world in 2050 that will be defined by resource constraint and its economic impacts.
Unfortunately this is also one vice where the U.S. is near to the top of the lists, as America now has the highest adult obesity rate in the developed world at 34%, according to a report by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD).
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