World development Indicators

Аннотация

In the 10 years that we have been producing the World Development Indicators, the world of development statistics has grown larger and deeper. It has also become better integrated. The demand for statistics to measure progress and demonstrate the effectiveness of development programs has stimulated growing interest in the production and dissemination of statistics. And not just in the traditional domains of debt, demographics, and national accounts, but in new areas such as biodiversity, information, communications, technology, and measures of government and business performance. In response World Development Indicators has continued to grow and change.