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 2516 - 2520 of 4907New Industries from New Places : The Emergence of the Software and Hardware Industries in China and India
China and India have grown rapidly in importance in the global economy over the past two decades the same period in which hardware and software have become important tradable products in the global economy. China has reached global scale in the hardware industry but not in software; India has achieved the reverse. These recent developments offer new insights into the ways in which new industries can take root and flourish within the broader context of developing economies.
Strategic Action Programme for the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden : Country Reports
The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden contain
some of the world's most important coastal and marine
environments and resources. In view of their environmental
uniqueness, the threats they are facing, and the need for
actions, the preparation of the Strategic Action Programme
(SAP) for the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden was initiated in
October 1995. THE SAP process, coordinated by the Regional
Organization for the Conservation of the Environment of the
From Transition to EU Accession : The Bulgarian Labor Market during the 1990s
This report studies the Bulgarian labor
market with a view to understand the interactions between
the performance of the Bulgarian economy and the functioning
of its labor market. The report assesses also the position
of Bulgaria vis-a-vis compliance with the "acquis
communautaire," and provides a set of key policy
recommendations that may enhance job creation potential in
years to come. In the aftermath of a steep adjustment
The Little Green Data Book 2002
The Little Green Data Book represents a
succinct collection of information from the World
Development Indicators 2002, and its accompanying CD-ROM.
The data compiled in this issue corresponds to the period
between 1997 and 2000, unless otherwise noted, for the
headings of agriculture, forests, biodiversity, energy,
emissions and pollution, water and sanitation, and
"greener" national accounts aggregates - 2000,
Location and Welfare in Cities: Impacts of Policy Interventions on the Urban Poor
Informal settlements are an integral
part of the urban landscape in developing countries. These
settlements are widely distributed within cities, including
central business centers and peripheral areas with
environment hazards. In most cases, residents of these
settlements do not have access to basic public services and
amenities. In this paper, the authors examine the impact of
interventions, such as upgrading basic services and