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 3061 - 3065 of 4907How Inertia and Limited Potentials Affect the Timing of Sectoral Abatements in Optimal Climate Policy
This paper investigates the optimal
timing of greenhouse gas abatement efforts in a
multi-sectoral model with economic inertia, each sector
having a limited abatement potential. It defines economic
inertia as the conjunction of technical inertia -- a social
planner chooses investment on persistent abating activities,
as opposed to choosing abatement at each time period
independently -- and increasing marginal investment costs in
From Political to Economic Awakening : The Path of Economic Integration - Deauville Partnership Report on Trade and Foreign Direct Investment, Volume 2. Main Report
The forces unleashed by the Arab
political awakening have the power to be transformational.
One critical parameter of success will be whether the Arab
political awakening is accompanied by a concurrent economic
awakening. Economic integration through increased trade and
foreign direct investment (FDI) is one key means available
in the short to medium term to policy makers to put the
Partnership countries on a higher path of sustainable
Lao PDR - Mapping the Gender Dimensions of Trade : A Preliminary Exposition
The Lao Government has also made
important commitments to gender equality in both its
national socio-economic development planning and in a number
of international agreements. Through mapping the gender
dimensions of trade in Lao PDR, this report aims to draw out
key inter-linkages between a more open trade policy and
gender. Recent export performance in Lao has been strong and
mostly driven by hydro-electricity and minerals, which
A Policy Framework for Green Transportation in Georgia : Achieving Reforms and Building Infrastructure for Sustainability
The Government of Georgia is considering
options for reducing fossil fuel imports in favor of
introducing large scale use of domestic energy sources for
public and private transportation. However, this must be
considered within the overall context of green
transportation-which will generate benefits well beyond the
substitution of fossil fuels with domestic energy sources.
The concept of green transportation has emerged in response
Green Prices
"Getting the prices right" is
a good starting point but is not sufficient for achieving
environmentally efficient outcomes. Other policy
interventions are often necessary to complement pricing
policies. Moreover, when pricing is not at all feasible,
regulatory and command-and-control policies must be used
instead. This paper focuses on three interrelated themes at
the core of the pricing problem. First, there is the