Global Monitoring Report 2010: The MDGs After the Crisis - Brossura

World Bank

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ISBN 10: 0821383167 ISBN 13: 9780821383162

Casa editrice: World Bank, 2010

Riassunto

What is the human cost of the global economic crisis? This year's Global Monitoring Report, The MDGs after the Crisis, examines the impact of the worst recession since the Great Depression on poverty and human development outcomes in developing countries. Although the recovery is under way, the impact of the crisis will be lasting and immeasurable. The impressive precrisis progress in poverty reduction will slow. No household in developing countries is immune. Gaps will persist to 2020. In 2015, 20 million more people in Sub-Saharan Africa and 53 million more people globally will be in extreme poverty. Even households above the $1.25-a-day poverty line in higher-income developing countries are coping by buying cheaper food, delaying other purchases, reducing visits to doctors, working longer hours, or taking multiple jobs.

History tells us that if we let the recovery slide and allow the crisis to lead to widespread domestic policy failures and institutional breakdowns in poor countries, the negative impact on human development outcomes, especially on children and women, will be disastrous.

The international financial institutions and international community responded strongly and quickly to the crisis, but more is needed to sustain the recovery and regain the momentum in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Developing countries will also need to implement significant policy reforms and strengthen institutions to improve the efficiency of service delivery in the face of fiscal constraints. Unlike previous crises, however, this one was not caused by domestic policy failure in developing countries. So better development outcomes will also hinge on a rapid global economic recovery that improves export conditions, terms-of-trade, and affordable capital flows---as well as meeting aid commitments to low-income countries.

Global Monitoring Report 2010, seventh in this annual series, is prepared jointly by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, it provides a developmental perspective on the global economic crisis and assesses the impact on developing countries---their growth poverty reduction, and other MDGs. Finally it sets out priorities for policy responses, both by developing countries and by the international community.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: World Bank
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0821383167
• ISBN 13: 9780821383162
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 151