[health-vn] WB: World Development Indicators 2009

[Vern Weitzel]

Subject: 	PHA-Exch> WB: World Development Indicators 2009
Date: 	Thu, 7 May 2009 22:08:18 +0700
From: 	Claudio Schuftan <cschuftan at phmovement.org>
To: 	pha-exchange at phm.kabissa.org

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     World Development Indicators 2009 arrives at a moment of great
     uncertainty for the global economy. The crisis that began more than
     a year ago in the U.S. housing market spread to the global financial
     system and is now taking its toll on real output and incomes. As a
     consequence, an additional 50 million people will be left in extreme
     poverty. And if the crisis deepens and widens or is prolonged, other
     development indicators-school enrolments, women's employment, child
     mortality-will be affected, jeopardizing progress toward the
     Millennium Development Goals.

     Statistics help us understand the events that triggered the crisis
     and measure its impact. Along with this year's 91 data tables, each
     section of the World Development Indicators 2009 has an introduction
     that shows statistics in action, describing the history of the
     current crisis, its effect on developing economies, and the
     challenges they face.

      We need better data now to guide our responses to the current
     crisis and to plot our course in the future.


     Shaida Badiee
     Director
     Development Data Group

     The report emanates from the World Bank.