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Highlights:

	World Development Report 2009 Economic growth will be unbalanced, but development still can be inclusive. That is the main message of this year's World Development Report.

	Global Economic Prospects 2009 (GEP) The new GEP analyzes the impact of world financial crisis and how it has dimmed short-term prospects for developing countries and the volume of world trade is likely to contract for the first time since 1982.

	Doing Business 2009 Azerbaijan was the top reformer in doing business, while Eastern Europe and Central Asia led the world’s regions in regulatory reforms, according to Doing Business 2009.

	Low Carbon, High Growth: Latin American Responses to Climate Change In the midst of the most severe global financial crisis in decades, the World Bank today urged the international community to look to Latin America for innovative solutions to avert a climate crisis.

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