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- 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 1881 - 1885 of 4907Watershed Management Approaches, Policies, and Operations : Lessons for Scaling Up
The report begins with definitions of
watersheds and watershed management, a characterization of
the problem of watershed degradation, and a short history of
watershed management operations and policies (Chapter 1).
The following four chapters discuss the findings from
experience with implementing watershed management programs
over the last 20 years based both on the project review and
on the literature. The second chapter discusses the findings
Road User Charges : Current
Practice and Perspectives in Central and Eastern Europe
This paper covers the most commonly used
means to charge road users, including fuel taxes, vehicle
taxes, vignettes and tolls. It presents a brief survey of
road user charging systems in selected European countries
and a more detailed overview of current status and
perspectives of road user charges in Poland. Consideration
is also given to private financing of roads through
different forms of public-private partnerships (PPP),
Walk Urban : Demand, Constraints, and Measurement of the Urban Pedestrian Environment
"Overall support for the pedestrian
environment," or walk ability, has grown increasingly
important as the world urbanizes and motorized modes
threaten to displace or constrain travel on foot. This
concern encompasses virtually every aspect of the pedestrian
experience. Walk ability takes into account the quality of
pedestrian facilities, roadway conditions, land use
patterns, community support, security, and comfort for
Urban Transport for Development : Towards an Operationally-Oriented Strategy
This paper arose from the perception
that a gap existed between the practice of project design
and the formal Bank strategies for transport and urban
sectors as stated in the cited reports. Formal strategies
tend to be too general to be linked meaningfully to project
designs. The paper in hand attempts to close this gap by
putting forward a different, operationally-oriented concept
of urban transport strategy and derives one such strategy
Restoring Balance : Bangladesh's Rural Energy Realities
This study, the first to concentrate on
Bangladesh's energy systems and their effects on the
lives of rural people, drew on these background studies, as
well as other World Bank-financed research on IAP and rural
infrastructure, to present a rural energy strategy for the
country. The study's broad aim was to identify ways to
improve the living standard in rural Bangladesh through
better and more efficient use of energy, while creating an