A good investment climate offers opportunities for companies-from the small enterprise to multinationals-whether they are increasing productivity, generating employment or increasing economic growth. Generally...
The relationship between globalization and poverty reduction and development is not well understood. The authors describe major historical tendencies, identify global currents--like trade, capital, migration...
Investing in education, opening up to new technologies through foreign trade and investment, and encouraging private sector research and development are the keys to unlocking the potential of technology...
Economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean in the last 40 years has been disappointing. Gaps between it and the developing countries instead of closing have been widened, and the East Asian countries...
Inappropriate land policies can be limitation for economic and social development: insecure land tenure, out-of-date regulations, and dysfunctional agrarian institutions hamper/constrain private investment...
Critics of globalization adduce that poor countries are losers in global integration. This report challenges that paradigm, arguing that globalization produces prosperity, a higher standard of living...
Almost all wars in actuality are civil wars. While wars between nations attract the most attention, it is civil strife that is more common and likely to last many more years. When development fails and...
Developing countries have a substantial interest in totally integrating agriculture under the multilateral trade regime. Approximately 73 percent of the poor in developing countries live in rural areas...
Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the regions of the world with the greatest inequality. Latin America is highly unequal with respect to incomes, and also exhibits unequal access to education...