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  1. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    Global

    The global monitoring report 2008 comes
    at an important time. This year marks the halfway point in
    the effort to achieve the millennium development goals
    (MDGs) by 2015. This is also an important year to work
    toward a consensus on how the world is going to respond to
    the challenge of climate change, building on the foundation
    laid at the conference in Bali in December 2007.
    Successfully meeting this challenge will be essential for

  2. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Global

    This book grew out of the Global Issues
    seminars and is itself a testament to that two-way dialogue:
    the suggestion to compile the speakers' lecture notes
    into a book came from the students themselves. Both the
    seminars and this book reflect the Bank's conviction
    that the seemingly intractable problems of our globalizing
    world-from entrenched poverty, to climate change, to new
    infectious diseases such as AIDS and avian flu-can be

  3. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    Interest in farmland is rising. And,
    given commodity price volatility, growing human and
    environmental pressures, and worries about food security,
    this interest will increase, especially in the developing
    world. One of the highest development priorities in the
    world must be to improve smallholder agricultural
    productivity, especially in Africa. Smallholder productivity
    is essential for reducing poverty and hunger, and more and

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