KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE STATE OF WORLD DEVELOPMENT

There are a number of periodic reports that together provide invaluable information on development and development priorities. Many are available online, and can be downloaded without charge. These include:

The Millennium Development Goals (from a consortium of donors)
http://www.developmentgoals.org/

The World Development Report (World Bank Group)
http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=1017492

WDI Online (World Bank Group, only an excerpt is available without charge)
http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=631625

Global Economic Prospects (World Bank Group)
http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=1755536

The Human Development Report (United Nations Development Program)
http://hdr.undp.org/

State of the World Population (UNFPA)
http://www.unfpa.org/swp/swpmain.htm

The World Resources Report (World Resource Institute; charge for this report)
http://pubs.wri.org/pubs_description.cfm?PubID=3764

State of the World's Vaccines and Immunization (UNICEF)
http://www.unicef.org/noteworthy/sowvi/

State of the World’s Children (UNICEF)
http://www.unicef.org/sowc03/

The World Health Report (WHO)
http://www.who.int/whr/en/

The World Communication and Information Report (UNESCO; access fee to download)
http://upo.unesco.org/onlinebookdetails.asp?id=2826

The World Culture Report (UNESCO; access fee to download)
http://upo.unesco.org/onlinebookdetails.asp?id=3613

World Education Report (UNESCO; access fee to download)
http://upo.unesco.org/onlinebookdetails.asp?id=3016

World Science Report (UNESCO; access fee to download)
http://upo.unesco.org/onlinebookdetails.asp?id=2735

The State of: Food and Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture, World’s Forests, and Food Insecurity in the World (FAO)
http://www.fao.org/sof/index_en.htm

Industrial Development Report (UNIDO)
http://www.unido.org/doc/5156

Global Environmental Outlook (UNEP)
http://www.unep.org/Geo/index.htm

UN Peace Operations Year in Review
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/yir/english/

International Trade Statistics (WTO)
http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/statis_e.htm

UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics
http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=1584&lang=1

WIPO Industrial Property Statistics
http://www.wipo.int/ipstats/en/index.html

The UN Refugee Agency Statistical Yearbook
http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/template/+RwLFqv5BwBo5Boq5eUh5cTPeUzknwBoqeRzknwBo5Boqwce6lxxwGxddAeRyBDXWeRDlmqeIybnM

The ICT Indicators page of the ITU
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/index.html

Economic Report on Africa (UNECA)
http://www.uneca.org/era2002/

Economic Survey of Europe (UNECE)
http://www.unece.org/ead/survey.htm

The statistical publications of the UN ESCAP secretariat
http://www.unescap.org/stat/statdata/statpub.htm

International Development Statistics CD-ROM (OECD, charge for this document with statistics on development assistance)
http://www.oecd.org/EN/document/0,,EN-document-15-nodirectorate-no-1-3264-15,00.html
Online access to these statistics is available at:
http://www.oecd.org/htm/M00005000/M00005347.htm