GAR 2013 Main Report

Notes

iThe World Conference on Disaster Reduction, held from 18–22 January 2005, in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, adopted the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005–2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters.
ii In OECD countries, the share of private sector investment in total fixed capital formation was 85 percent in 2010 (OECD, 2013

OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). 2013.,Investment., National Accounts at a Glance 2013., Paris,France: OECD.. .

). In low and middle-income countries, the share of private sector investment is lower (almost 70 percent in low and lower middle-income countries and about 64 percent in upper middle-income countries in 2009), but has increased steadily, significantly contributing to total GFCF growth. Especially the share in lower middle-income economies increased by almost 10 percent since 1996 (based on World Development Indicators: http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators).
iii 2015 is the year in which three major international development processes will be reviewed and efforts towards sustainable development renewed in the form of the reviewed Millennium Development Goals, the follow-up to Rio+20 in the form of Sustainable Development Goals, and the successor agreement to the Hyogo Framework for Action. To which degree these processes will converge or remain distinct has to be seen.
iv Tangible Earth was first conceived by Shinichi Takemura in 2001. For more information, see: http://www.tangible-earth.com/en.

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