Examples of using World development indicators in English and their translations into Chinese
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The Atlas draws on World Development Indicators[9], a database of over 1,400 indicators for more than 220 economies, many going back over 50 years.
According to the World Bank's 1999 World Development Indicators, on current trends neither the infant mortality nor the primary education target set for the international development goals are achievable.
According to the World Bank 1999 World Development Indicators, only Algeria of the Arab countries has data for the second half of the decade(1995).
The World Bank publishes World Development Indicators and the International Monetary Fund has just embarked on the promotion of its General Data Dissemination System, which includes a social indicator module.
Sources: World Bank, World Development Indicators 09(Washington, D.C., 2009), table 5.9, and WDI and GDF Online, http://www. worldbank. org, accessed on 23 April 2009.
In 1996-1997, the Moroccan GNP declined by 2.2 per cent, and the Syrian GNP increased by 9 per cent(see World Bank, World Development Indicators, table 1.1).
Sources: World Development Indicators, 2007; IMF World Economic Outlook database, October 2007; OECD online database, October 2007 and February 2008.
Priority was given to accelerating structural reforms in order to strengthen the investment climate; the positive trends in that regard were reflected in the World Development Indicators 2004 published by the World Bank.
For example, public expenditures on health in the least developed countries in 2001 were only $4.3 per capita, or 1.9 per cent of their GDP, World Development Indicators, 2004.
The Small States Supplement 2011 is a supplement to the World Development Indicators 2011 and presents data for developing member countries of the Small States Forum.
Source: World Development Indicators 10, tables 1.4 and 6.11, and WDI Online, World Bank(Washington, D.C., 2010), update in preparation.
Sources: World Bank, World Development Indicators 08(Washington, D.C., 2008), tables 1.4 and 8.9, and WDI and GDF Online, at http://www. worldbank. org(accessed on 23 April 2008).
Source: Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, based on World Bank, World Development Indicators 2000(Washington, D.C., World Bank, 2000).
Source: FAO, State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2002(Rome, 2002), and World Bank, World Development Indicators, 2003(Washington, D.C., 2003).
Sources: UNCTAD, Handbook of Statistics online; World Bank, World Development Indicators online; United Nations, Millennium Development Goals Indicators website.
Sources: UNCTAD, Handbook of Statistics, 2004(exports and imports of merchandise); and World Bank, World Development Indicators 2005(GDP).
Education; labour-intensive exports Source: UNDP, Human Development Report 1999; World Bank, World Development Indicators 1997; Chu et al.(1999).
The Committee decided to switch the data source for GNI per capita from the World Bank World Development Indicators database to the United Nations Statistics Division National Accounts Main Aggregates Database.
Sources: World Bank, World Development Indicators 2008(Washington, D.C., 2008), tables 1.4, 4.4, 6.8 and 6.9, and WDI and GDF Online, http://www. worldbank. org(accessed 23 April 2008).
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