CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 Responsible Growth for the New Millennium -- Achieving Responsible Growth -- Acting Now to Lay the Foundation for a Sustainable Future -- Achieving Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development -- Attaining Sustainable Energy -- Realizing Sustainable Water -- Sustaining Technology -- Sustaining Societies -- Creating Stronger Partnerships for a Sustainable World -- 2 Agriculture and Rural Development-Pillars for Growth in Poor Countries -- Worldwide Trade Policy Reform -- Enhanced Agricultural Productivity and Competitiveness -- Conclusions -- 3 Trade as an Engine of Responsible Growth -- Trade, Growth, and Poverty Reduction -- Development and the Promise of the Doha Development Agenda -- 4 Toward a Sustainable Energy Future -- Energy 's Role in Responsible Growth-the Multiplier Effect of Modern Energy -- Energy as a Driver of Responsible Growth -- Improvements to Energy Efficiency -- Energy Consumption-the Downside of Growth? -- Energy Pricing and Affordability -- Financial Sustainability and Investment Needs -- Fiscal Burdens on Cash-Strapped Governments -- Four Strategies for Energy -- Joint Efforts Needed -- 5 Water Resources: Managing Scarcity -- Necessity of Water Management and Development for Growth and Poverty Reduction -- Management Challenges -- Investment in Infrastructure -- Conclusions -- 6 Water Supply and Sanitation for Responsible Growth -- Water Supply and Sanitation Is a Millennium Priority -- Investment Without Reform Will Not Reach the Goals -- People Are at the Center of Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation -- Delivering Safe Water and Sanitation Costs Money -- Sanitation and Hygiene Require Special Attention -- Safe Water Supply Requires Working with Others -- A Response to the International Challenge Is Needed -- Conclusions.

7 The Environment as a Resource for Development -- Pillars for Responsible Growth -- Developments Shaping the Environmental Agenda -- Conservation of Biodiversity -- Global Environmental Challenges and Local Responsible Growth -- Environmental Priorities: One Size Does Not Fit All -- 8 Forests: Balancing Conservation and Development -- Engaging Multiple Stakeholders -- Balancing Preservation and Development -- Putting It All Together: A Holistic Approach to Forests and Growth -- 9 A Socially Balanced Approach to Development -- What Is Social Development? -- Social Dynamics and Sustainable Development -- Key Principles of Social Development -- The Potential of Social Development-Sustaining Growth -- Strategic Priorities for Social Development -- Conclusions -- Appendix: World Bank Sector Strategies -- Index -- Boxes -- 2.1 The Agricultural Growth-Poverty Reduction Connection -- 2.2 Underlying Success Factors in Agricultural Development -- 2.3 Agricultural Technology Generation and Dissemination -- 2.4 Meeting the Challenge of the Livestock Revolution -- 2.5 Integrated Pest Management in Mali -- 2.6 Malaysia's Export-Oriented Agricultural Growth Based on Cash Crops -- 2.7 Kenyan Entrepreneurs Building a Market for Business Services -- 3.1 Improving Labor Standards -- 3.2 Trade and Environment -- 4.1 The Community Development Carbon Fund -- 6.1 China's Rural Water Program: Connecting Improved Service to Sustainable Financing -- 6.2 Community-Based Water Supply and Sanitation Project in Uttar Pradesh, India -- 6.3 Public-Private Partnership in Senegal -- 6.4 Knowledge and Intersectoral Collaboration Can Make a Difference -- 7.1 Improving Environmental Institutions in Benin -- 8.1 Forests and the Fight against Poverty -- 8.2 Forests and Sustainable Economic Development -- 8.3 Forests and Global Environmental Values.

9.1 Success Factors in Highly Satisfactory Projects with Social Development Components -- Figures -- 1.1 Almost All the Increase in Population by 2050 Will Be in the Urban Areas of Developing Countries -- 1.2 As World Income Increases, the Share of Income of Formerly Low-and Middle-Income Economies Will Increase -- 1.3 Incomes and Emissions Are Distributed Very Unequally -- 1.4 Integration with Global Markets Is Associated with Faster Growth -- 2.1 Enormous Income Gains Are Possible from Full Multilateral Trade Liberalization -- 2.2 Industrial Countries Are Moving Slowly to Open Their Agricultural Markets -- 3.1 Developing Countries Have Become Important Players in Global Trade -- 3.2 Exports of Developing Countries Became More Competitive in the 1990s -- 3.3 Integration with Global Markets Is Associated with Faster Growth -- 3.4 Trade and Growth Go Hand-in-Hand -- 3.5 Openness Can Help Promote Growth, But Not in All Cases -- 3.6 Changes in Trade Have Little Relation to Inequality -- 3.7 Agricultural Exports and Production Are Positively Related -- 3.8 Escalating Tariff Rates Discourage Development -- 3.9 Developing Countries Lag Behind Rich Countries in Services Liberalization -- 3.10 Clearing Customs Takes Longer in Developing Countries -- 4.1 Financing for the Power Sector Emerging Markets Needs to Rise -- 5.1 Development of Economically Feasible Hydropower Potential Differs by Region -- 6.1 Access to Water and Sanitation Is Growing -- 6.2 Millions of People Need to Be Served Each Year to Reach the Millennium Development Targets for Water Supply and Sanitatio -- Tables -- 2.1 Agriculture Value Added Annual Growth Rates -- 5.1 A Typology of Water Interventions -- 7.1 Selected Outcome Indicators: Limited Progress toward Environmental Sustainability.