Social development in the World Bank: essays in honour of Michael M. Cernea

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
C. Karthikeyan
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
World Bank ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World

THE WORLD BANK ABOUT SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: THE EVOLUTION OF APPROACHES

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-109
Author(s):  
Olga Pryazhnikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Global Agenda

The World Bank has made an important contribution to shaping the global agenda for reducing poverty, increasing prosperity and promoting sustainable development. The review examines the main milestones in changes of the World Bank’s activities in the field of social development. The evolution of the organization’s approaches to solving the problem of poverty reduction as one of the key obstacles to socio-economic development is outlined.

scholarly journals Why Co-operatives?

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Subrata Mukherjee ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Nobel Peace Prize ◽  
Grameen Bank ◽  
Income Differentials ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
World Income

In 2006, Muhammed Yunus and the Grameen Bank received the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts through micro-credit to create economic and social development. Muhammed Yunus received the prize not in the field of economics because only sustainable development of the proletariat and the marginalised sections of society can bring peace. More than 80% of the world’s population lives in countries where income differentials are widening. The poorest 40% of the world’s population accounts for 5% of global income, while the richest 20% accounts for three quarters of world income. According to the World Bank (WB), the proportion of people in the developing world living on less than $1.25 a day was 20.5% in 2010, down from 43.1% in 1990 and 52.2% in 1981 (in 2005 prices). That is 1.22 billion people lived on less than $1.25 a day in 2010 compared with 0.91 billion in 1990 and 1.94 billion in 1981. In this paper an attempt is made to explain the relevance of Marxism and the need for the co-operative movement to assist in providing a means for social well-being of the downtrodden classes of people. Keywords: Economy and social development, sustainable development, Marxism

scholarly journals Measuring Literacy Gap in the World for Economic and Social Development: Evidence from Selected Countries and the Lessons Learned

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (6A) ◽  
pp. 123-130
Author(s):  
Gbolahan S. Osho ◽  
Arinola C. Ebalunode
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
World Bank ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Literacy Rate ◽  
Literacy Gap ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The World ◽  
Female Literacy

Literacy rate is a major indicator of economic and social development, the campaign for growth and improvement in this area by several international organizations have caused significant growth in all major regions of the world. The persistent theme to these various programs is that illiteracy is nonetheless prevalent in the world and more study needed to eradicate it, thus generates a significant interest in this issue. Therefore, the primary goal of this current study is to compare five major regions in the world as classified by the World Bank in regards to the differences which exist in literacy. The study concludes that literacy rates of male and female across the regions are different for Youth literacy between the age of 15 and 24. The vast conclusion is that that there is a no significant difference in male literacy among the regions in the world except for Africa. While no significant difference in female literacy among the regions in the world.

scholarly journals Fighting Poverty, Combatting Social Exclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 223-232
Author(s):  
William L. Partridge
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World

AbstractThe Chinese have a saying: through a drop of water you can see the whole ocean. This chapter analyzes the process of integrating social development policy and practice into the operations of the World Bank through the lens of my own personal experience, a drop of water through which we will see how sociologists and anthropologists transformed the larger organizational culture of the institution.

scholarly journals Why Co-operatives?

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Subrata Mukherjee ◽  
Manoranjan Das
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Nobel Peace Prize ◽  
Grameen Bank ◽  
Income Differentials ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
World Income

In 2006, Muhammed Yunus and the Grameen Bank received the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts through micro-credit to create economic and social development. Muhammed Yunus received the prize not in the field of economics because only sustainable development of the proletariat and the marginalised sections of society can bring peace. More than 80% of the world’s population lives in countries where income differentials are widening. The poorest 40% of the world’s population accounts for 5% of global income, while the richest 20% accounts for three quarters of world income. According to the World Bank (WB), the proportion of people in the developing world living on less than $1.25 a day was 20.5% in 2010, down from 43.1% in 1990 and 52.2% in 1981 (in 2005 prices). That is 1.22 billion people lived on less than $1.25 a day in 2010 compared with 0.91 billion in 1990 and 1.94 billion in 1981. In this paper an attempt is made to explain the relevance of Marxism and the need for the co-operative movement to assist in providing a means for social well-being of the downtrodden classes of people. Keywords: Economy and social development, sustainable development, Marxism

scholarly journals Social Development (Excerpts from Her 2004 Oral History)

2021 ◽  
pp. 167-176
Author(s):  
Gloria Davis
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Oral History ◽  
World Bank ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Central Sulawesi

AbstractI did my anthropological research in Indonesia between 1972 and 1974. I happened to work on the movement of Balinese to central Sulawesi, a part of the Indonesian transmigration program, which, in fact, after a few years is what led directly to my being hired by the Bank. I taught at Yale for three years. While I was teaching, a person came up after my lecture, and said, “The World Bank wants you.”

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