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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 1026 - 1030 of 4906Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2015 : Progress Report
Enabling the Business of Agriculture
2015 is a pilot assessment report on the agribusiness sector
enabling environment in 10 countries. This progress report
covers the methodology, key insights and lessons learned
from the pilot effort. Enabling the Business of Agriculture
2015 is a first step toward identifying areas and data sets
that can be used to build indicators in subsequent phases of
the project; the indicators will measure and monitor
Institutional and Fiscal Analysis of Lower-level Courts in Solomon Islands
Justice interventions in Solomon Islands
over the last decade have focused largely on assisting
Honiarabased state institutions in the form of a variety of
capacity-building programs. This has included a heavy
reliance on expatriate expertise positioned in central
justice agencies. The National Judiciary has benefited
significantly from this support, although to date the direct
effects of increased assistance have not been felt in most
World Bank Research Digest, Vol. 9(2)
In this issue: Facilitating labor
migration from the Philippines; Incentives and teacher
effort; Electoral accountability and local public spending
in Indonesia; Why don't poor countries do R&D?; How
effective are efforts to raise voluntary enrollment in
health insurance?; How insecure property rights affect
migration in China; the challenges of public service
delivery in the Pacific Islands.
Outcomes, Opportunity and Development : Why Unequal Opportunities and Not Outcomes Hinder Economic Development
This paper studies the relationship
between inequality of opportunity and development outcomes
in a cross-country setting. Scholars have long debated the
impact of inequality on growth, development, and the quality
of institutions in a society. The empirical relationships
are however confounded by the notion that
"inequality" can be seen as a composite of
inequality arising from differences in effort and ability,
Women's Legal Rights over 50 Years : Progress, Stagnation or Regression?
Using a newly compiled database of
women's property rights and legal capacity covering 100
countries over 50 years, this paper analyzes the triggers
and barriers to reform. The database documents gender gaps
in the ability to access and own assets, to sign legal
documents in one's own name, and to have equality or
non-discrimination as a guiding principle of the
country's constitution. Progress in reducing these