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.
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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
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Displaying 4441 - 4445 of 4907Geography and Exporting Behavior : Evidence from India
This paper examines locational factors
that increase the odds of a firm's entry into export
markets and affect the intensity of its participation. It
differentiates between two different sources of spillovers:
clustering of general economic activity and that of
export-oriented activity. It also focuses on the effect of
the business environment and that of institutions at the
spatial unit of districts in India. The study disentangles
The Air Connectivity Index : Measuring Integration in the Global Air Transport Network
The authors construct a new measure of
connectivity in the global air transport network, covering
211 countries and territories for the year 2007. It is
grounded in network analysis methods, and is based on a
gravity-like model that is familiar from the international
trade and regional science literatures. It is a global
measure of connectivity, in the sense that it captures the
full range of interactions among all network nodes, even
Distributional Impact Analysis of the Energy Price Reform in Turkey
A pricing reform in Turkey increased the
residential electricity tariff by more than 50 percent in
2008. The reform, aimed at encouraging energy efficiency and
private investment, sparked considerable policy debate about
its potential impact on household welfare. This paper
estimates a short-run residential electricity demand
function for evaluating the distributional consequences of
the tariff reform. The model allows heterogeneity in
Do Our Children Have a Chance? A
Human Opportunity Report for Latin America and the Caribbean
This book reports on the status and
evolution of human opportunity in Latin America and the
Caribbean (LAC). It builds on the 2008 publication in
several directions. First, it uses newly available data to
expand the set of opportunities and personal circumstances
under analysis. The data are representative of about 200
million children living in 19 countries over the last 15
years. Second, it compares human opportunity in LAC with
A Polycentric Approach for Coping with Climate Change
This paper proposes an alternative
approach to addressing the complex problems of climate
change caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The author, who
won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, argues that
single policies adopted only at a global scale are unlikely
to generate sufficient trust among citizens and firms so
that collective action can take place in a comprehensive and
transparent manner that will effectively reduce global