The CEFS performance audit suggests that in the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in the state of Bihar, there has been guarantee of only corruption, unemployment, poverty, distress migration, hunger and humiliation. Irregularities are the only regular feature of the rural job scheme in Bihar.

The 2012 Sri Lanka human development report examines the social and economic disparities across Sri Lanka’s geographic regions. It also highlights development differences amongst provinces and districts to the extent that data are available, focusing in particular on spatial disparities.

The October 2012 World Economic Outlook (WEO) assesses the prospects for the global recovery in light of such risks as the ongoing euro area crisis and the "fiscal cliff" facing U.S. policymakers.

India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is the largest public works employment project in the world. Its most direct poverty reduction pathway is through boosting employment and income for the poor.

In this fifth edition of Cities of Opportunity, PwC and the Partnership for New York City again examine the current social and economic performance of the world’s leading cities. Also add a future dimension that probes the shape of city economies to come.

The 2013 World Development Report on Jobs will help explain and analyze the connection between jobs and important dimensions of economic and social development.