Global monitoring report 2005 [[electronic resource] ] : millennium development goals: from consensus to momentum

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450658803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, DC, : International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, The World Bank, c2005
• ISBN: 1-4623-8353-X; 1-4552-9722-4; 1-280-14139-5; 9786610141395; 1-4175-9096-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Soggetti: Economic development - 2001-; Economic policy - 2001-; Electronic books.; Developing countries Economic policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Prepared jointly by The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-228).
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Executive Summary; Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); 1 Overview: Building Momentum toward the Millennium Development Goals; 2 Spurring and Sustaining Economic Growth; 3 Scaling Up Service Delivery; 4 Realizing the Development Promise of Trade; 5 Increasing Aid and Its Effectiveness; 6 Strengthening and Sharpening Support from International Financial Institutions; References; Boxes; Millennium Development Goals; 1.1 A five-point agenda for accelerating progress toward the MDGs; 2.1 Growth is central to sustained poverty reduction2.2 South Asia shows that stronger growth and better service delivery are key to the MDGs; 2.3 Do poverty traps account for Africa's underdevelopment?; 2.4 A gush of oil rents and surge in public investment do not ensure sustained growth; 2.5 Political commitment is central to breaking the ; conflict cycle; 2.6 Better macroeconomic policies and stronger institutions are associated with longer growth accelerations; 2.7 Challenges for fiscal policy in oil-producing Sub-Saharan countries; 2.8 Fiscal transparency has improved in Africa, but much remains to be done2.9 Strengthening expenditure monitoring under the enhanced HIPC Initiative; 2.10 Comparing business regulations in two resource-dependent economies: Angola and Botswana; 2.11 High returns to investment climate improvements in Uganda; 2.12 How does governance affect per capita incomes in Africa, and vice versa?; 2.13 The Economic Commission for Africa's governance indicators and agenda; 3.1 Sub-Saharan Africa shows that fast progress is possible in closing the gender gap; 3.2 Reducing child mortality in Mozambique; 3.3 Improving sanitation in India's slums3.4 Attracting doctors to rural areas in Thailand; 3.5 IMF programs and MDG progress; 3.6 Scaling up service delivery in low-income countries under stress (LICUS); 3.7 Rewarding schools for MDG outcomes; 4.1 The varying effects of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing; 4.2 Why has rapid export growth failed to significantly reduce poverty in Madagascar?; 4.3 Many of the rents created by trade preferences accrue to importers; 5.1 The U.S. Millennium Challenge Account-poised to deliver; 5.2 Estimates of MDG financing needs vary widely, but all point to the need for a major increase5.3 Addressing absorptive capacity in Ethiopia; 5.4 Scaling up development efforts; 5.5 Alignment and harmonization: country examples show a wide variety of approaches; 5.6 Mozambique's performance assessment framework-for donors; 5.7 Proposals for additional debt relief-moving beyond HIPC; 6.1 Profile of the "Big 5" multilateral development banks; 6.2 Independent evaluation of the World Bank's role in poverty reduction strategies; 6.3 Grant financing in the African and Asian Development Funds and IDA