World Development Report 2011 - Media Review
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The World Bank released the World Development Report 2011 on the 11th of April 2011. See below news items related to the report. For all news items, see the Community Portal
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- World Bank urges new focus on global development in fragile states (The Guardian 11.04.2011)
World Development Report 2011 warns that chronic cycles of criminal and political violence remain the biggest threats
- Aid spending should target conflict, World Bank urges (BBC 11.04.2011)
The World Bank is recommending a major difference in the way aid is spent.
- Six non-obvious points about conflict, security and development (World Bank Blog 11.04.2011)
Launched today, the 2011 World Development Report is on “Conflict, Security and Development.” In making a presentation on its relevance to Africa to my World Bank colleagues, I counted six messages that are new and different.
- World Bank Shifts Focus to Security in Poor Nations (The Wall Street Journal 11.04.2011)
The World Bank is calling for development organizations to place a new emphasis on improving police protection to halt the violence gripping dozens of poor nations.
- World Bank calls for peacekeeping rethink (The Financial Times 11.04.2011)
Countries trapped in repeated cycles of war and violent crime are badly served by the global framework for peacekeeping and humanitarian relief, according to the World Bank.
- World Bank urges new thinking to tackle conflicts and violence (Reuters 11.04.2011)
A new World Bank report, challenging a view long embraced by global institutions, says high economic growth alone cannot reduce the poverty and unemployment that breed conflict and violence.
- Corruption, unemployment spur violence – World Bank (The Vanguard 11.04.2011)
Corruption and unemployment aggravate violence in any society especially where the citizens are not part of the government says the World Bank.
- World Bank backs more development aid for security (Irish Times 11.04.2011)
The World Bank has called for a major rethink in the way that aid is spent.
- Violence condemns 1.5 billion people to poverty: World Bank report (People's Daily Online 11.04.2011)
Some 1.5 billion people worldwide are living in poverty because of political and criminal violence, said World Bank President Robert Zoellick on Monday.
- World Bank highlights conflict as key to poverty (AFP 11.04.2011)
Conflict and violence are holding back global economic growth and trapping 1.5 billion people in dire poverty, the World Bank has said, calling for an international effort to break the cycle.
- New World Development Report Repackages Old Ideas (IPS News 11.04.2011)
With over 1.5 billion people living in countries blighted by incessant or recurring violence, the World Bank's annual World Development Report (WDR), with this year's focus on how conflict derails development, was anxiously received Monday by scores of development agencies, governments and NGOs all over the world
- Nigeria: 1.5 Billion Under Threats of Violence -World Bank Reports (AllAfrica.com 11.04.2011)
These are people who are said to be living in countries affected by these violence, according to the latest World Bank reports just released in Washington, DC by the World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick.
- World Bank Says Employment, Better Security Will Break Cyclical Violence (Bllomberg 11.04.2011)
Countries trapped in recurring outbreaks of civil war and violence should invest in job creation and the re-establishment of the rule of law to break the pattern, according to the World Bank.
- Change in international aid emphasis urged by World Bank (Radio New Zealand 11.04.2011)
A World Bank report has recommended a major shift in the way that international aid is administered.
- World Bank: no low-income fragile nation achieves MDG, enhanced global efforts vital (Xinhua 11.04.2011)
No low-income fragile or conflict-affected country around the world has yet achieved a single Millennium Development Goal (MDG), the World Bank said Sunday.
- World Bank recommends global aid changes (Radio Australia News 11.04.2011)
The report's author, Sarah Cliff, says this is the greatest development challenge facing the worl
- World Bank says violence holding back Philippines (The Manila Standard 11.04.2011)
The World Bank on Monday identified the Philippines as one of nine countries suffering from multiple forms of political and criminal violence that have kept thousands of their people poor and unemployed.
- Economix: How to Rebuild a War-Torn Nation (New York Times 10.04.2011)
Source: World Development Report team calculations based on OECD A chart from the World Bank shows the volatility in aid to four countries from year to yea
- Lack of jobs among youth a recipe for wars: World Bank (Daily Nation 10.04.2011)
The World Bank has asked African governments to urgently tackle youth unemployment and inequality among different population groups to avoid losing economic gains.
- 1.5 bn people globally affected by violence (Business Standard 10.04.2011)
The report examines how conflict and violence affect economic development and the lessons to be learned from countries' successes and failures in overcoming those challenges.
