TY  - BOOK
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - World development indicators
SN  - 0821357298
AV  - HC59.15 .W656 2004eb
U1  - 338.9 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Economic history -- 1990- -- Statistics -- Periodicals.
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Economic development -- Statistics -- Periodicals.
KW  - Economic indicators
KW  - Economic indicators -- Periodicals.
KW  - Social indicators
KW  - Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Statistics.
KW  - Developing countries -- Social conditions -- Statistics.
N1  - Description based on: 1997; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - The WDR focuses on basic services, particularly health, education, water, and sanitation, seeking ways of making them work for poor people. Services work when they include all the people, when girls are encouraged to go to school, when pupils and parents participate in the schooling process, when communities take charge of their own sanitation. They work when societies cacurtailcorruption—which hurts poor people more than it hurts the better off—particularly when it hits basic health services, which poor people need desperately.In short, this year’s WDR is central to the World Bank’s two-pronged strategy for development— investing in and empowering people, and improving the climate for investment
UR  - http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio5394858
ER  -