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- To promote shared prosperity, the goal is to promote income growth of the bottom 40% of the population in each country.
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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
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Displaying 2331 - 2335 of 4907Urban Services Delivery and the Poor : The Case of Three Central American Cities, Volume 2. City Reports
The present study describes, and
quantifies the provision of basic urban services to the
poor, in three Central American cities in El Salvador,
Honduras, and, Panama. It also identifies priority areas for
government intervention, using specialized household surveys
to quantify current deficits, and to rank households from
poor to rich, using aggregate consumption as the measure of
welfare. The urban poverty profile is examined in each city,
A Preliminary Desk Review of Urban Poverty in the East Asia Region : With Particular Focus on Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam,
Volume 1. Main Report
This study reviews the available
quantitative and qualitative information on urban poverty
issues and trends in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) Region,
with particular focus on Indonesia, the Philippines, and
Vietnam. The review is a desk study-which is limited to
material accessible to the Bank in Washington and draws
mainly on existing field work and other published and
unpublished papers. The empirical analysis focuses on the
Uzbekistan - Living Standards Assessment : Policies to Improve Living Standards, Volume 1. Summary Report
Since independence, Uzbekistan has
followed a distinct economic strategy, entailing gradual
transformation of the economy, while emphasizing social
stability. The "Uzbek Model" of development has
focused on developing industrial and manufacturing capacity
in a predominantly agricultural economy, using direct and
substantial state guidance. An important objective of the
strategy has been to raise living standards and expand
Growth, Distribution, and Poverty in Africa : Messages from the 1990s
This book synthesizes, and elaborates on
the results of a series of country studies, completed under
the Poverty Dynamics in Africa Initiative, organized by the
Africa Region of the Bank. These studies made use of vastly
improved household survey data, which have enhanced
understanding of African poverty dynamics during the past
decade. The book examines the main factors behind observed
poverty changes in eight countries - Ethiopia, Ghana,
Tanzania - Public Expenditure Review (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main Report
This Public Expenditure Review (PER) for
FY00, provided support to the Government of Tanzania in the
preparation of its budget, and Medium Term Expenditure
Framework (MTEF), and performed as well an external
evaluation of the country's budget performance. The
report contains two volumes, the Main Report (v. I) first
describes the main features of the PER process, to then
present the main findings emerging from a review of fiscal