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 1256 - 1260 of 4907Bhutan Poverty Assessment 2014
This report identifies the key drivers
of rapid poverty reduction in Bhutan over the recent years,
explaining why some dzongkhags are stuck in poverty or
reducing poverty is not significant while others prospered,
and whether female headed households have a harder time
reducing poverty. The exercise draws mainly on data from the
two rounds of Bhutan Living Standards Survey (2007 and 2012)
supplemented with focus group discussions carried out for
Governors and Governing Institutions: A Comparative Study of State-Business Relations in Russia's Regions
The paper uses the latest 2011 round of
the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey
for the Russian Federation, which for the first time was
designed to be representative of Russian regions. The paper
takes a closer look at regional-level factors influencing
the business environment in Russia and, more specifically,
conditions that favor the emergence of symbiotic relations
between regional authorities and regional businesses.
Small Business Tax Policy, Informality, and Tax Evasion : Evidence from Georgia
Using a panel of administrative data and
regression discontinuity analysis, this paper examines how
the introduction of preferential tax regimes for Georgian
micro and small businesses in 2010 affects formal firm
creation and tax compliance. The results show that the new
tax regime for micro businesses increased the number of
newly registered formal firms by 18-30 percent below the
eligibility threshold during the first year of the reform,
The Effect of Climate and Technological Uncertainty in Crop Yields on the Optimal Path of global land use
The pattern of global land use has
important implications for the world's food and timber
supplies, bioenergy, biodiversity and other eco-system
services. However, the productivity of this resource is
critically dependent on the world's climate, as well as
investments in, and dissemination of improved technology.
This creates massive uncertainty about future land use
requirements which compound the challenge faced by
Supporting Hydropower : An
Overview of the World Bank Group's Engagement
Hydropower development makes an
essential contribution to reducing poverty, boosting shared
prosperity, and improving sustainability. Water storage
associated with some hydropower projects can also make
important contributions to water and food security and to
climate resilience. The World Bank Group (WBG) thus uses
multiple instruments to support sustainable and responsible
hydropower projects of various sizes and types, depending on