The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. We are not a bank in the ordinary sense but a unique partnership to reduce poverty and support development. The World Bank Group has two ambitious goals: End extreme poverty within a generation and boost shared prosperity.
- To end extreme poverty, the Bank's goal is to decrease the percentage of people living on less than $1.25 a day to no more than 3% by 2030.
- To promote shared prosperity, the goal is to promote income growth of the bottom 40% of the population in each country.
The World Bank Group comprises five institutions managed by their member countries.
The World Bank Group and Land: Working to protect the rights of existing land users and to help secure benefits for smallholder farmers
The World Bank (IBRD and IDA) interacts primarily with governments to increase agricultural productivity, strengthen land tenure policies and improve land governance. More than 90% of the World Bank’s agriculture portfolio focuses on the productivity and access to markets by small holder farmers. Ten percent of our projects focus on the governance of land tenure.
Similarly, investments by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank Group’s private sector arm, including those in larger scale enterprises, overwhelmingly support smallholder farmers through improved access to finance, inputs and markets, and as direct suppliers. IFC invests in environmentally and socially sustainable private enterprises in all parts of the value chain (inputs such as irrigation and fertilizers, primary production, processing, transport and storage, traders, and risk management facilities including weather/crop insurance, warehouse financing, etc
For more information, visit the World Bank Group and land and food security (https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/agriculture/brief/land-and-food-security1
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Displaying 1436 - 1440 of 4906Sugar Policy and Reform
Reviewing cross-country experience with
sugar policies, and policy reform, the authors conclude that
long-standing government interventions - rooted in
historical trade arrangements, fear of shortages, and
conflicting interests between growers, and sugar mills -
often displace both the markets, and the institutions
required to produce efficient outcomes. Arrangements rooted
in colonial eras, still shape policies, and trade in the
Thailand : Reducing Emissions from Motorcycles in Bangkok
This report summarizes the findings of a
study partially financed by the joint United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP)/World Bank Energy Sector
Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP). A plan was
designed to phase out in-use old motorcycles in partnership
with the government agencies and private sector
(manufacturers and local banks). The report presents a plan
to assist the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration ( BMA) to
Thirst for Reform? Private Sector Participation in Providing Mexico City's Water Supply
The case in Mexico City offered an
opportunity to observe the advantages, and disadvantages of
gradualist reform. Unfortunately, the authors find that the
long-term nature of an incremental approach does not match
well with the generally shorter-term horizons of elected
politicians. Difficult decisions in implementation are left
to later years, which pushes potentially unpopular actions
onto the shoulders of future administrations, while allowing
Population, Energy and Environment Program : Comparative Analysis on the Distribution of Oil Rents
The issue of administering the
distribution of oil rents is the subject of increased debate
among oil companies, civil society, development agencies,
and governments, which tacit agreement suggests that regions
where oil and gas production takes place, in particular the
communities, ought to receive "indemnifications"
due to damages, and losses derived from the use of land for
oil production operations. Such debate sparked the need for
Is the Emerging Nonfarm Market Economy the Route Out of Poverty in Vietnam?
Are the household characteristics that
are good for transition to a more diversified
market-oriented development process in Vietnam also
important for reducing poverty? Or are there tradeoffs? The
determinants of both poverty incidence and participation in
rural off-farm activities are modeled as functions of
household and community characteristics using comprehensive
national household surveys for 1993 and 1998. Despite some