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 4396 - 4400 of 4907The Impact of Pro-Vulnerable Income Transfers : Leisure, Dependency and a Distribution Hypothesis
This paper studies a transmission
mechanism through which pro-vulnerable income transfers may
affect individual decision-making of non-beneficiaries in an
extreme poverty context, leading to labor supply contraction
and the so-called dependency syndrome. The argument is based
on the distributional distortion this transfer may provoke
to the relative quality of leisure, enjoyed by the
population in an extreme poverty scenario. Assuming the
Local and Community Driven
Development : Moving to Scale in Theory and Practice
Services are failing poor urban and
rural people in the developing world, and poverty remains
concentrated in rural areas and urban slums. This state of
affairs prevails despite prolonged efforts by many
governments to improve rural and urban services and
development programs. This book focuses on how communities
and local governments can be empowered to contribute to
their own development and, in the process, improve
Lebanon : Country Environmental Analysis
After the post-war reconstruction period
that started in 1990-1992, Lebanon made spectacular
improvements to repair the scars of the wars by investing
heavily in public infrastructure, roads, highways, airports
and harbors, communications, commercial estates, and high
and middle income housing. The environmental neglect had an
impact on the economy and resulted in a degradation
amounting to US$ 565 million in 2000 or 3.4 percent of Gross
West Bank and Gaza - Improving Governance and Reducing Corruption
In the past decade, the Palestinian
Authority (PA) has worked to strengthen economic governance
and combat corruption, both essential to sustained economic
growth and improved delivery of public services. This report
finds the PA has made significant progress in its public
institutions, establishing a strong governance environment
in many critical areas. But it also identifies areas where
reforms are underway but incomplete or, in some areas, not
Malawi - Travel and Tourism : Realizing the Potential
Malawi sits amid a vibrant Travel and
Tourism (T&T) region that is growing rapidly and
increasing its world market share. Proximate to countries
with thriving T&T sectors, Malawi has a relatively
underdeveloped diversity of natural, cultural, and man-made
attractions. It is challenged to embrace effective policies
that will enable public and private sector alignment to
achieve a viable niche as an economically productive, multi