Este informe es el decimocuarto de una serie anual que evalúa los principales problemas
de desarrollo. Este informe sintetiza e interpreta las lecciones de más de cuarenta años de
experiencia en desarrollo. Junto con el informe del año pasado y el del próximo año sobre
la pobreza en el medio ambiente, busca brindar una visión general integral de la agenda de
desarrollo. La década de 1990 comenzó con cambios dramáticos, ya que muchos países de
Europa del Este y otros lugares iniciaron reformas ambiciosas de sus sistemas económicos …

This report is the fourteenth in an annual series assessing major development issues. This
report synthesizes and interprets the lessons of more than forty years of development
experience. Together with last year's report on poverty and next year's on the environment, it
seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of the development agenda. The 1990s began
with dramatic changes, as many countries in Eastern Europe and elsewhere initiated
ambitious reforms of their economic and political systems. Against the backdrop of these …

This report is the thirteenth in the annual series addressing major development issues. This
report is about the poor. It is thus about the fundamental issue in economic development: the
eradication of poverty from the world. The report defines poverty in broad terms, to include
literacy, nutrition, and health, as well as income. The evidence suggests that rapid and
politically sustainable progress on poverty has been achieved by pursuing a strategy with
two equally important elements. The first is to promote the efficient use of the poor's most …

This is the sixteenth in the annual series and examines the interplay between human health,
health policy and economic development. Because good health increases the economic
productivity of individuals and the economic growth rate of countries, investing in health is
one means of accelerating development. More important, good health is a goal in itself.
During the past forty years life expectancy in the developing world has risen and child
mortality has decreased, sometimes dramatically. But progress is only one side of the …

This is the fifteenth in the annual series assessing major development issues. The World
Development Report 1992 explores the links between economic development and the
environment. The 1990 report on poverty, last year's report on development strategies, and
this report constitute a trilogy on the goals and means of development. The main message of
this year's report is the need to integrate environmental considerations into development
policymaking. The report argues that continued, and even accelerated, economic and …

Abstract World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography looks at the
transformation of economies as they develop, analyzes their uneven growth, and considers
the long-standing policy debates on urbanization, territorial development, and international
integration. As the world's economy grows, people and production are concentrating and
pulled to prosperous places—growing cities, leading areas, and connected countries. The
Report presents the interplay between scale economies, factor mobility, and transport costs …

This is the twentieth in the annual series assessing major development issues. The report is
devoted to the role and effectiveness of the state: what it should do, how it should do it, and
how it can improve in a rapidly changing world. Governments with both centrally-planned
and mixed economies are shrinking their market role because of failed state interventions.
This report takes an opposite stance: that state's role in the institutional environment
underlying the economy, that is, its ability to enforce a rule of law to underpin transactions, is …

Inequality of opportunity, both within and among nations, sustains extreme deprivation,
results in wasted human potential and often weakens prospects for overall prosperity and
economic growth, concludes the 2006 World Development Report. To correct this situation
and reduce poverty more effectively, Equity and Development recommends ensuring more
equitable access by the poor to health care, education, jobs, capital, and secure land rights,
among others. It also calls for greater equality of access to political freedoms and political …