'Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World' considers how key global trends might develop over the next 15 years to influence world events. It offers a range of possibilities and potential discontinuities, as a way of opening our minds to developments we might otherwise miss.
Some preliminary assessments are:
* The whole international system—as constructed following WWII—will be revolutionized. Not only will new players—Brazil, Russia, India and China— have a seat at the intern more...
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The global burden of disease: 2004 update is a comprehensive assessment of the health of the world's population. It provides detailed global and regional estimates of premature mortality, disability and loss of health for 135 causes by age and sex, drawing on extensive WHO databases and on information provided by Member States.
10 facts on the global burden of disease
* Around 10 million children under the age of five die each year
* Cardiovascular diseases are the leading causes of more...
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'This Compilation lists the approximately 1,100 laws, regulations, and guidelines that govern human subjects research in 92 countries, as well as standards from a number of international and regional organizations. This Compilation was developed for IRBs/Ethics Committees, researchers, sponsors, and others who are involved in international research. Its purpose is to help these groups familiarize themselves with the laws, regulations, and guidelines where the research will be conducted, to assur more...
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The Growth Blog is a forum intended for policy makers, academics, students, and other interested citizens to engage current practitioners on policies and issues critical to development. This platform was inspired by the series of meetings that the Commission on Growth and Development held around the world during the development of its report.
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Abstract: 'Despite an abundance of cross‐section, panel, and event studies, there is strikingly little convincing documentation of direct positive impacts of financial opening on the economic welfare levels or growth rates of developing countries. The econometric difficulties are similar to those that bedevil the literature on trade openness and growth, though if anything, they are more severe in the context of international finance. There is also little systematic evidence that financial open more...
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The Special Safeguard Mechanism for developing countries is one of the key issues in the current World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations on agriculture. The SSM is intended as a Special and Differential Treatment trade measure to safeguard the agricultural sectors in developing countries from the potentially destabilizing effects of import surges and price depressions.
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'Russia possesses a sophisticated science and technology (S&T) sector. Yet despite this basic research capacity, Russia's exports are primarily raw materials. This publication describes the ambiguous legacy of the Soviet S&T system and the status of the Russian S&T sector after 10 years of transition. It also touches on the evolution of the Russian system of intellectual property rights protection from Soviet times to the present. In addition, the book offers an overview of international experie more...
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