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 4201 - 4205 of 4907Export Entrepreneurs : Evidence from Peru
This paper examines firm entry and
survival in exporting, and in products and markets not
previously served by any domestic exporters. The authors use
data on the nontraditional agriculture sector in Peru, which
grew seven-fold from 1994 to 2007. They find tremendous firm
entry and exit in the export sector, with exits more likely
after one year and among firms that start small. There is
also significant entry and exit in new markets. In contrast,
Risks, Ex-ante Actions and Public Assistance : Impacts of Natural Disasters on Child Schooling in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Malawi
This paper examines the impacts of
natural disasters on schooling investments with special
focus on the roles of ex-ante actions and ex-post responses
using panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi. The
importance of ex-ante actions depends on disaster risks and
the likelihood of public assistance, which potentially
creates substitution between the two actions. The findings
show that higher future probabilities of disasters increase
Barriers to Competition in Croatia : The Role of Government Regulation
This paper examines product market
policies in Croatia by benchmarking them to OECD countries
and highlighting how policies that are more conducive to
competition would stimulate a more efficient allocation of
resources and, in consequence, facilitate convergence to
higher income levels. OECD indicators of overall regulation
in product markets indicate that Croatias policies in 2007
were generally more restrictive of competition than were the
Assessment of the Environmental Regulatory Framework of the Mining Sector
In Nigeria, up to now mining activities
have systematically escaped environmental control. In 1989,
the Government of Nigeria issue the document "national
policy on the environment", which was revised in 1999
in response to the advances in knowledge and the need of
integrating development issues concerning all sectors of the
economy. The new environmental policy goals followed the
sustained development principles of conserving and using
Lao People's Democratic Republic - Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures : Enhancing Trade, Food Safety, and Agricultural Health
Lao People's Democratic Republic
(PDR) is making effort to integrate itself into the regional
and international economy. It is seeking membership in the
World Trade Organization (WTO); participating in the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN); the ASEAN
free trade agreement (AFTA), and the Greater Mekong
Subregion (GMS); and working to attract foreign investment
and to expand its foreign trade. In recent years Lao PDR has