World Development Report 2005: A Better Investment Climate for Everyone: Investment Climate, Growth, and Poverty - Hardcover

The World Bank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821357247 ISBN 13: 9780821357248

Publisher: OUP USA, 2004

Synopsis

The World Development Report (WDR) is the World Bank's annual flagship publication. Each year, the WDR seeks to expand the understanding of poverty and its causes, and sets out actions the development community can take to fight poverty in all its dimensions.

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Synopsis

This is the 27th edition of the annual World Development Report and this edition focuses on a key development challenge of how governments can promote a strong investment climate in their societies, in order to foster economic growth and address poverty reduction objectives. Drawing on surveys of nearly 30,000 firms in 53 developing countries, as well as country case studies and other new research, the report explores options for expanding opportunities for firms and entrepreneurs of all types, from farmers and microenterprises to local manufacturing concerns and multinationals, to invest productively and create job opportunities. Findings drawn include that a strong investment climate should benefit society as a whole as well as individual firms, requires well-designed regulation and taxation systems, and should recognise and embrace the contributions of all types of firms to growth. Governments need to address barriers to competitive bridge the gap between policies and their implementation and a deeper sources of policy failure which can undermine a sound in climate.

The report also contains selected data from the World B programme of Investment Climate Surveys and the Doing Busin as well as from the World Development Indicators 2004.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0821357247
• ISBN 13: 9780821357248
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288