World development report 1999/2000: Entering the 21st Century
- New York Oxford University Press 2000
- ix, 241p.
- The World Bank Development Report .
This report analyses the changes facing policymakers at global and national levels by examining new expectations and proposing rules and structures to serve as foundations for policy development. The areas of focus are macroeconomic stability, the extent to which development fulfils human needs, policies geared toward development and sustainable development through socially inclusive and change responsive institutions. Among the topics discussed herein are the world’s trading systems, developing countries and global financial systems, and dynamic cities as engines of growth.Summary booklet available