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 1891 - 1895 of 4907Private Participation in the Road Sector in Brazil : Recent Evolution and Next Steps
Today, Brazil has the second longest
highway network under private concessions in the world. This
paper analyzes Brazil's experience under the two first
phases of the federal road concession program, and
highlights some of the program's strengths and areas
for further development. Despite the unfolding world
financial and economic crisis, the potential for further
private participation in the sector appears very good. This
A Review of Institutional Arrangements for Road Asset Management : Lessons for the Developing World
The type of institutional arrangement
for managing roads adopted by a country depends on the
objectives and performance that it sets for its road
networks. This paper reviews such arrangements for selected
countries; China, Brazil, Slovenia, New Zealand, United
Kingdom, and the Slovak Republic. These countries have
adopted different approaches in several dimensions, such as
decentralization, sources of financing, management
Global Expeiences on Expanding Water and Sanitation Services to the Urban Poor : Accompanying Volume
In 2006-07, the Water and Sanitation
Program (WSP) initiated research to identify barriers to
service delivery for the urban poor. The findings of the
research have been presented in the Guidance Notes on
Improving Water Supply and Sanitation Services to the Urban
Poor in India. The Urban Global Practice Team of WSP decided
to expand the ambit of this research to a global context as
the learnings were relevant to experiences across Africa,
Making a Small Market Thrive : Recommendations for Efficiency Gains in the Latin American Air Cargo Market
Air cargo origin destination flows in
the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region are heavily
concentrated in the largest economies of South America and
Mexico. With 32.7 percent of the airfreight moved to, from,
and within the region, Brazil is the largest cargo market,
followed by Colombia and Mexico, with 17.9 percent and 16.0
percent, respectively. The relatively small size of the air
cargo market in LAC can be explained by: (i) low levels of
The Urban Rehabilitation of Medinas : The World Bank Experience in the Middle East and North Africa
The paper presents the key objectives
for the rehabilitation of historic centers or medinas in the
Middle East and North Africa as elaborated by the World Bank
on the basis of twenty years of past and present lending and
technical assistance operations to the governments of the
region. These are: 1) the conservation of the urban and
cultural heritage; 2) the local economic development of the
historic city; and 3) the improvement of the living