Regional Highlights : World Development Indicators 2012
These regional highlights present some of the key trends in developing countries, drawn from the data presented in World Development Indicators 2012, the World Bank's annual compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/824731468321849160/World-development-indicators-2012-regional-highlights http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26836 |
| Summary: | These regional highlights present some
of the key trends in developing countries, drawn from the
data presented in World Development Indicators 2012, the
World Bank's annual compilation of relevant,
high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics
about development and the quality of people's lives.
Charts and short narratives highlight the state and progress
of various development topics such as poverty, health,
education, the environment, the economy, governance,
investment, aid, trade, and capital flows. A global review
of progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is
presented in the introduction to the world view section of
World Development Indicators 2012. The high income economies
are the largest emitters of carbon dioxide, but East Asia
and the Pacific produces the largest share of global carbon
dioxide emissions among developing regions-more than a
quarter of total global emissions. As the global economy
becomes more integrated, air transport is increasingly
important for delivering not only perishable goods such as
flowers, but also highly specialized component parts used in
transnational production networks. Agriculture is a
declining industry in Europe and Central Asia. The share of
agriculture in regional Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fell
from 19 percent to 7 percent over the last two decades.
People in the developing economies of Europe and Central
Asia have greater access to commercial bank branches and
automated teller machines than people in other developing
regions-about 18 commercial bank branches and 45 ATMs per
100,000 adults. Governments and citizens in Latin America
and Caribbean spend more on health care as a share of GDP
than other developing regions, which is reflected in
generally good health outcomes. Poverty is falling in the
Latin America and Caribbean, most notably in Brazil-the most
populous country in the region. South Asia has the second
lowest business start-up costs among developing regions. |
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