Infrastructure and services are critical
to development and form the backbone of economic and
community activities at the local, regional, national, and
international levels. They enable the distribution of goods
and services within and between countries and ease access to
schools, markets, and health services. Food security and
vaccination programs, for example, require functioning roads
and railways and access to ports and airports to move

With more than three-quarters of its
workforce employed in agriculture, Malawi is highly
vulnerable to any adverse events affecting the agriculture
sector, and agricultural risks are ever present in the
country. Agricultural risks can obstruct development and
enforce poverty traps, particularly for a country as reliant
on agriculture as Malawi. Because of the size of the sector
in the economy and the importance of agricultural products

 
Cada fin y principio de año traen consigo el interés por mirar los principales acontecimientos del período transcurrido y, en la misma medida, en perspectiva de futuro inmediato. Aunque no siempre se pueden agotar los temas, el ejercicio ayuda, al menos, a intentar delimitar las ambiciosas metas que nos proponemos y, al mismo tiempo, aquilatar las cualidades de procesos, a veces demasiado largos, con que transcurren muchas de ellas. Fieles a esa tradición, en el IPDRS les proponemos, como cada año, una mirada retrospectiva a vuelo de pájaro.

Part one of the report provides an
overview of the economy. It has one chapter (chapter one),
which provides an overview of the country’s growth and
macroeconomic performance and challenges and analyzes and
emphasizes the limited dynamism of a rent- and
hydrocarbon-cursed economy. Part II describes cross-cutting
issues that constrain policy implementation, regardless of
the sectors where they occur. In chapter two, the report

This Country Partnership Framework (CPF)
is designed to support the forthcoming Chad Five-Year
Development Plan (2016-2020). It succeeds the Interim
Strategy agreed with the Government of Chad in March 2010.
The Interim Strategy Note (ISN) set out the World Bank
Group’s (WBG’s) support to Chad for the period 2010-2012.
The strategy was composed of three main pillars:
strengthening governance; improving livelihoods and access

The climate-smart agriculture (CSA) concept reflects
the ambition to improve the integration of agriculture
development and climate responsiveness. CSA aims to
achieve food security and broader development goals under a
changing climate and increasing food demand. CSA initiatives
sustainably increase agriculture productivity, enhance resilience
of agro-systems, and reduce/remove greenhouse gases
(GHGs) from agriculture production, and require planning to
address tradeoffs and synergies between these three pillars:

The climate-smart agriculture (CSA) concept reflects an
ambition to further integrate agricultural development and
climate responsiveness. CSA aims to achieve food security
and broader development goals under a changing climate
and increasing food demand. CSA initiatives sustainably
increase productivity, enhance resilience, and minimize
greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions. Increased planning is
vital in order to address tradeoffs and synergies between
the three pillars: productivity, adaptation, and mitigation

The climate-smart agriculture (CSA) concept reflects
an ambition to improve the integration of agriculture
development and climate responsiveness. It aims to
achieve food security and broader development goals
under a changing climate and increasing food demand.
CSA initiatives sustainably increase productivity, enhance
resilience, and reduce/remove greenhouse gases (GHGs),
and require planning to address tradeoffs and synergies
between these three pillars: productivity, adaptation,

The climate-smart agriculture (CSA) concept reflects
an ambition to improve the integration of agriculture
development and climate responsiveness. It aims to achieve
food security and broader development goals under a
changing climate and increasing food demand. CSA initiatives
sustainably increase productivity, enhance resilience, and
reduce/remove greenhouse gases (GHGs), and require
planning to address tradeoffs and synergies between these
three pillars: productivity, adaptation, and mitigation [1].

Energy efficiency is among the cheapest
and cleanest energy resources available. The World Bank,
together with its development partners and client
governments, is making a commitment to ensure that energy
efficiency becomes the “first fuel” of energy policy makers
and governments around the world. This brief highlights
lessons learned from two decades of energy efficiency
programs in many countries. Five recommendations are offered

In the 22 years between 1992 and 2014
Vietnam attained the remarkable average annual rate of
economic growth of 6.9 percent. However, the sources of
growth that underpinned much of this period of economic
transformation ready availability of labor and a structural
shift of national production from subsistence agriculture to
industry and services are gradually being depleted and
cannot be sustained indefinitely. Given that a substantial

With 2015 marking the transition from
the Millennium to the Sustainable Development Goals, the
international community can celebrate many development
successes since 2000. Three key challenges stand out: the
depth of remaining poverty, the unevenness in shared
prosperity, and the persistent disparities in non-income
dimensions of development. First, the policy discourse needs
to focus more directly on the poorest among the poor. While