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 2331 - 2335 of 4907Brazil : Forging a Strategic Partnership for Results, An OED Evaluation of World Bank Assistance
Brazil entered the 1990s suffering the
consequences of a lost decade of high inflation and slow
growth. Between 1980 and 1990, per capita income declined in
real terms, and the share of the population in extreme
poverty rose from 16.5 to 19 percent -and from 36 to 42
percent in the Northeast. Income distribution worsened. Key
social indicators improved little, particularly in the
Northeast. These adverse conditions persisted in the early
Ghana - International Competitiveness : Opportunities and Challenges Facing Non-Traditional Exports
The report first reviews macroeconomic
aspects in Ghana, identifying that much of the
non-traditional exports' expansion, reflects sporadic
foreign investments in key agro-processing activities -
which enjoy preferential treatment in European markets -
but, its value-added seems at best marginal, questioning its
sustainability, should preferences be removed. Besides
compliance with a growing number of European Union
Mexico Urban Development : A Contribution to a National Urban Strategy, Volume 2. Background Studies
The study aims to contribute towards a
national urban strategy, in an effort to maximize
Mexico's cities competitiveness, and livelihoods, in
the urban economists' terms - to maximize agglomeration
economies, while minimizing congestions costs. The country
is in a good position for this challenge: it has relatively
a mature urban system, implying an overall urban population
growth, and, a reasonably balanced system of cities.
Slovak Republic : Insolvency and Creditor Rights Systems
The assessment team interviewed a cross
section of country stakeholders regarding the effectiveness
of the legal infrastructure, and its implementation
supporting debtor-creditor relationships, corporate
insolvency and credit risk management, and resolution
practices, including among others, members of the
Inter-Agency Commission for the preparation of a new
insolvency law, and members of the drafting team for the new
Brazil : Managing Water Quality - Mainstreaming the Environment in the Water Sector
This study examines how environmental
issues have been addressed in the water sector in Brazil,
within the context of activities of the Federal Government,
generally, and those implemented under Bank sector
operations, in particular. The core focus of the study lies
in the management of water quality, as it affects both the
users of raw water, and those who are primarily concerned
with the disposal of wastewater. The report considers the