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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Safer Homes, Stronger Communities : A
Handbook for Reconstructing after Natural Disasters
Safer homes, stronger communities: a
handbook for reconstructing after disasters was developed to
assist policy makers and project managers engaged in
large-scale post-disaster reconstruction programs make
decisions about how to reconstruct housing and communities
after natural disasters. As the handbook demonstrates,
post-disaster reconstruction begins with a series of
decisions that must be made almost immediately. Despite the
Railway Reform in South East Europe and Turkey : On the Right Track?
The railways of South East Europe and
Turkey experienced significant declines in traffic volumes
in 2009. This reflected the impact of the international
financial crisis unleashed in the last quarter of 2008 and
its contractionary impact on the economies of the region and
elsewhere. Lower traffic volumes translated in most cases
into a serious deterioration of the financial performance of
the state-owned railways. This brought home the costs of
China - International Experience in Policy and Regulatory Frameworks for Brownfield Site Management
Recurring environmental incidents have
led to increased public awareness of the threats of
environmental pollution to public health and rapid
urbanization is driving up land prices in Chinese cities. As
a result of these developments, industrial plant relocations
are numerous, particularly of heavily polluting industrial
plants, such as pesticide, coke, steel plants, and chemical
industry plants. These relocations are leaving behind many
Geography and Exporting Behavior : Evidence from India
This paper examines locational factors
that increase the odds of a firm's entry into export
markets and affect the intensity of its participation. It
differentiates between two different sources of spillovers:
clustering of general economic activity and that of
export-oriented activity. It also focuses on the effect of
the business environment and that of institutions at the
spatial unit of districts in India. The study disentangles
The Air Connectivity Index : Measuring Integration in the Global Air Transport Network
The authors construct a new measure of
connectivity in the global air transport network, covering
211 countries and territories for the year 2007. It is
grounded in network analysis methods, and is based on a
gravity-like model that is familiar from the international
trade and regional science literatures. It is a global
measure of connectivity, in the sense that it captures the
full range of interactions among all network nodes, even