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The Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides a global audience with the latest and most accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2018 edition entitled Piecing Together the Poverty Puzzle broadens the ways World Bank define and measure poverty. It presents a new measure of societal poverty, integrating the absolute concept of extreme poverty and a notion of relative poverty reflecting differences in needs across countries. It introduces a multi-dimensional poverty measure that is anchored on household consumption and the international poverty line of one dollar ninety cents per person per day but broadens the measure by including information on access to education and basic infrastructure. Finally, it investigates differences in poverty within households, including by age and gender

The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2018 is a visual guide to the trends, challenges and measurement issues related to each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Atlas features maps and data visualizations, primarily drawn from World Development Indicators (WDI) - the World Bank's compilation of internationally comparable statistics about global development and the quality of people's lives.Given the breadth and scope of the SDGs, the editors have been selective, emphasizing issues considered important by experts in the World Bank's Global Practices and Cross Cutting Solution Areas. Nevertheless, The Atlas aims to reflect the breadth of the Goals themselves and presents national and regional trends and snapshots of progress towards the UN's seventeen Sustainable Development Goals related to: poverty, hunger, health, education, gender, water, energy, jobs, infrastructure, inequalities, cities, consumption, climate, oceans, the environment, peace, institutions, and partnerships

Executive summary -- Water security -- Profiling water security in the Middle East and North Africa -- The water security dividend -- Appendix -- Table A.1. Definition of indicators and data sources -- Table A.2. Data sources for the country profiles

Why are carefully designed, sensible policies too often not adopted or implemented? When they are, why do they often fail to generate development outcomes such as security, growth, and equity? And why do some bad policies endure? World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law addresses these fundamental questions, which are at the heart of development. Policy making and policy implementation do not occur in a vacuum. Rather, they take place in complex political and social settings, in which individuals and groups with unequal power interact within changing rules as they pursue conflicting interests. The process of these interactions is what this Report calls governance, and the space in which these interactions take place, the policy arena. The capacity of actors to commit and their willingness to cooperate and coordinate to achieve socially desirable goals are what matter for effectiveness. However, who bargains, who is excluded, and what barriers block entry to the policy arena determine the selection and implementation of policies and, consequently, their impact on development outcomes. Exclusion, capture, and clientelism are manifestations of power asymmetries that lead to failures to achieve security, growth, and equity. The distribution of power in society is partly determined by history. Yet, there is room for positive change. This Report reveals that governance can mitigate, even overcome, power asymmetries to bring about more effective policy interventions that achieve sustainable improvements in security, growth, and equity. This happens by shifting the incentives of those with power, reshaping their preferences in favor of good outcomes, and taking into account the interests of previously excluded participants. These changes can come about through bargains among elites and greater citizen engagement, as well as by international actors supporting rules that strengthen coalitions for reform-Cover

Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the data -- Introduction -- The world by income, FY2017 -- The world by region -- Sustainable development goals -- 1. No poverty -- 2. Zero hunger -- 3. Good health and well-being -- 4. Quality education -- 5. Gender equality -- 6. Clean water and sanitation -- 7. Affordable and clean energy -- 8. Decent work and economic growth -- 9. Industry, innovation, and infrastructure -- 10. Reduced inequalities -- 11. Sustainable cities and communities -- 12. Responsible consumption and production -- 13. Climate action -- 14. Life below water -- 15. Life on land -- 16. Peace, justice, and strong institutions --17. Partnership for global development -- Sustainable development goals and targets

"Cover" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Table of Contents" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Abbreviations" -- "Chapter 1 Global Outlook: A Fragile Recovery" -- "Summary" -- "Major economies: Recent developments and outlook" -- "Global trends" -- "Emerging market and developing economies: Recent developments and outlook" -- "Risks to the outlook" -- "Policy challenges" -- "References" -- "Box 1.1 Low-income countries: Recent developments and outlook" -- "Box 1.2 Regional perspectives: Recent developments and outlook" -- "Special Focus 1 Debt Dynamics in Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Time to Act?" -- "Introduction" -- "Evolution of fiscal positions" -- "Fiscal positions in episodes of financial stress" -- "Conclusion" -- "References" -- "Special Focus 2 Arm's-Length Trade: A Source of Post-Crisis Trade Weakness" -- "Introduction" -- "Characteristics of intra-firm and arm's-length trade" -- "Evolution of intra-firm and arm's-length trade since the crisis" -- "Factors contributing to the sharp post-crisis slowdown in arm's-length trade" -- "Conclusion" -- "References" -- "Chapter 2 Regional Outlooks" -- "East Asia and Pacific" -- "Recent developments" -- "Outlook" -- "Risks" -- "Europe and Central Asia" -- "Recent developments" -- "Outlook" -- "Box 2.2.1 Reversal in 2016 of diverging growth paths" -- "Risks" -- "Latin America and the Caribbean" -- "Recent developments" -- "Outlook" -- "Box 2.3.1 Continued growth divergence within Latin America and the Caribbean" -- "Risks" -- "Middle East and North Africa" -- "Recent developments" -- "Outlook" -- "Risks" -- "South Asia" -- "Recent developments" -- "Outlook" -- "Risks" -- "Sub-Saharan Africa" -- "Recent developments" -- "Outlook" -- "Box 2.6.1 Deteriorating public finances in Sub-Saharan Africa" -- "Risks" -- "References" -- "Statistical Appendix" -- "Selected Topics" -- "Figures

Cover -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Global Outlook: Disappointments, Risks, and Spillovers -- Summary and key messages -- Major economies -- Global trends and spillovers -- Developing countries -- Risks to the outlook -- Policy challenges -- References -- Special Focus: From Commodity Discovery to Production: Vulnerabilities and Policies in LICs -- Introduction -- Lead times between discovery and production -- Evolution from commodity discovery to production -- Determinants of the lead time -- Policy implications