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The dollar-a-day definition of global destitution made its debut in the bank's 1990 World Development Report.
On November 4, the HDR office at the United Nations Development Programme published the 20th Edition of the Human Development Report.
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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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.
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.
According to a recent Committee for Economic Development report on women on boards, as other countries institute board diversity quotas, they may consider board-ready American women to hit their more aggressive targets for women directors.
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.
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.
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.
Human Development Report 1999.
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If Internet users are expected to double to close to 1 billion by 2005, according to the UNDP Human Development Report 2002, it is hard to see how the imbalance in favour of developed countries is going to be redressed in the foreseeable future without strong political motivation.
"Developing Asia's recovery phase remains vulnerable to shocks, " the bank said in its Asian Development Outlook report.
Meanwhile the development agencies report to a third ministry, the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions.
Brazil in particular could be compromised by Chinese competition in sectors such as cars, according to a recent Inter-American Development Bank report.
Development Program report warned that because of the ravages of the disease, South Africa's economy may be slipping from developing status to underdeveloped.
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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International Development Committee - Eighth Report: Post-2015 Development Goals.
And watch out for the International Development Committee's report on whether the UK should continue to provide development aid to India - a country which critics point out has its own space and nuclear weapons programmes.
However, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development issued a report that said the European Union will see improving economic conditions in the coming months.
Finance ministers from the five countries have been directed to look into the idea of the development bank and report back at the next summit, Singh said.
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They contend that, pursuant to agreed Millennium Development Goals contained in the Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development (dubbed the "the Monterrey Consensus"), the United States and other developed nations are obliged to provide 0.7 percent of their gross national income in foreign aid (also known as Official Development Assistance or ODA).
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The social development minister said the report provided evidence more money was needed for housing.
Looking only at development aid, the report argues, you find that aid works: it spurs growth.
Donors also need to break down the artificial divide between humanitarian aid and long-term development aid, the report finds.
Two years ago India's urban-development ministry published a report calling for states to upgrade building codes and promote the strengthening of existing buildings.
Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Development, said the report showed the UK public's support brought a "vital lifeline" to communities across the Indian Ocean.
On the eve of the conference, the FAO and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development issued a joint report that warned that the urban poor in food-importing countries will require increased humanitarian aid to stave off hunger and undernourishment that can also lead to civil strife.
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