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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Two Dragon Heads : Contrasting
Development Paths for Beijing and Shanghai
In broad terms, the sources of economic
growth are well understood, but relatively few countries
have succeeded in effectively harnessing this knowledge for
policy purposes so as to sustain high rates of growth over
an extended period of time. Among the ones that have done
so, China stands out. Its gross domestic product (GDP)
growth rate, which averaged almost 10 percent between 1978
and 2008, is unmatched. Even more remarkable is the
The Cost of Environmental
Degradation : Case Studies from the Middle East and North Africa
Environmental degradation is costly, to
individuals, to societies, and to the environment. This
book, edited by Lelia Croitoru and Maria Sarraf, makes these
costs clear by examining a number of studies carried out
over the past few years by the World Bank's Middle East
and North Africa region. Even more important than estimating
the monetary cost of environmental degradation (COED),
however, are the clear guidance and policy implications
Lesotho Highlands Water Project :
Communication Practices for Governance and Sustainability Improvement
The past decade has witnessed major
shift thinking about water, including how water
infrastructure development strategies can help advance
sustainable development and the global fight against
poverty. This reflects, in part, greater attention now being
paid to governance reforms promoting integrated water
resource management (IWRM), the efficient and wise use of
water, and expanding access to water and energy services. In
The Little Green Data Book 2010
The little green data book 2010 show
wide disparities across regions. For example, urban air
pollution declined in most countries between 2000 and 2006
(the most recent year for which data is available), with the
greatest progress in low-income and lower middle-income
countries. But concentration levels are still nearly three
times higher in these countries than in high-income
countries. The book also estimates adjusted net savings,
Is Deliberation Equitable? Evidence from Transcripts of Village Meetings in South India
Deliberative decision-making processes
are becoming increasingly important around the world to make
important decisions about public and private goods
allocation, but there is very little empirical evidence
about how they actually work. In this paper the authors use
data from India extracted from 131 transcripts of village
meetings matched with data from household surveys conducted
in the same villages prior to the meetings, to study whose