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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Inorganic fertilizer use across
Sub-Saharan Africa is generally considered to be low. Yet,
this belief is predicated on the assumption that it is
profitable to use rates higher than currently observed.
However, there is little rigorous empirical evidence to
support this notion. Using a nationally representative panel
data set, and with due recognition of the role of risk and
uncertainty, this paper empirically estimates the
Behavioral Economics and Social Exclusion : Can Interventions Overcome Prejudice?
Behavioral economics recognizes that
mental models -- intuitive sets of ideas about how things
work -- can bias an individual's perceptions of himself
and the world. By representing an ascriptive category of
people as unworthy, a mental model can foster unjust social
exclusion of, for example, a race, gender, caste, or class.
Since the representation is a social construction,
shouldn't society be able to control it? But how? This
Myanmar Investment Climate Assessment : Sustaining Reforms in a Time of Transition
This is the first investment climate
assessment (ICA) for Myanmar. The main objectives of this
ICA are to: (i) provide an up-to-date and fact-based
analysis of the business environment for the government and
other stakeholders in Myanmar to help prioritize and
contextualize the reform agenda, and (ii) to offer a
baseline for future assessments of progress in terms of the
investment climate reform agenda. As requested by the
Reviving Trade Routes : Evidence from the Maputo Corridor
Most trade moves along a few
high-density routes: the corridors. Improving their
performance has emerged as a necessary ingredient for growth
and integration into the regional and global economy. In
Africa, this is recognized at the continental level, where
program for infrastructure development in Africa (PIDA) has
identified 42 corridors that should form a core network for
regional integration and global connectivity. Several
Private Sector Involvement in Road Financing
Achieving private sector involvement in
financing, provision and management of roads requires
specialized legal and institutional frameworks, public
sector expertise, advisor support and sustained political
commitment. In many African States, there is little
experience of private sector involvement in the road sector
but there is encouragement to promote such involvement from
development partners. Increased private sector involvement