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  1. Library Resource
    February, 2014
    Guinea, Papua New Guinea

    Despite global gender equality gains in
    education, life expectancy, and labor force participation,
    two areas of persistent inequality remain: asset gaps and
    women's agency. In many developing countries, including
    Papua New Guinea (PNG), land and natural resources are
    citizens' key assets. This briefing note, centered on
    field research in north fly district explores the process of
    negotiation and the progress in implementation of the

  2. Library Resource
    September, 2014

    This paper discusses short-run and
    long-run effects of "green stimulus" efforts, and
    compares these effects with "non-green" fiscal
    stimuli. Green stimulus is defined here as short-run fiscal
    stimuli that also serve a "green" or environmental
    purpose in a situation of "crisis" characterized
    by temporary under-employment. A number of recently enacted
    national stimulus packages contain sizeable

  3. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Pakistan

    Pakistan experienced severe flooding
    after torrential monsoon rains hit southern Sindh and the
    adjoining areas of Punjab and north-eastern Balochistan in
    August 2011. Flash floods triggered by the monsoon rain
    caused severe damage to infrastructure in the affected
    areas. Entire villages and urban centers have been flooded,
    homes have been destroyed, and over a million acres of crops
    and agricultural lands have been damaged. A Damage and Needs

  4. Library Resource
    June, 2014
    Africa

    This paper documents a significant
    impact of climate variation on urbanization in Sub-Saharan
    Africa, primarily in more arid countries. By lowering farm
    incomes, reduced moisture availability encourages migration
    to nearby cities, while wetter conditions slow migration.
    The paper also provides evidence for rural-urban income
    links. In countries with a larger industrial base, reduced
    moisture shrinks the agricultural sector and raises total

  5. Library Resource
    July, 2014
    Eswatini

    This history illustrates a number of
    themes encountered in Swaziland that faces developing
    countries and their external partners in Africa and beyond.
    Firstly, the history relates the experience of a small and
    comparatively insular country in addressing complex
    challenges deriving from rapid urbanization and, as a
    result, the growing need to adapt governance systems and
    structures. A second key issue is the challenge that small

  6. Library Resource
    February, 2014
    Ethiopia

    In Africa, farmers have been reluctant
    to take up new varieties of staple crops developed to boost
    smallholder yields and rural incomes. Low fertilizer use is
    often mentioned as a proximate cause, but some believe the
    problem originates with incomplete input markets. As a
    remedy, African governments have introduced technology
    adoption programs with fertilizer subsidies as a core
    component. Still, the links between market performance and

  7. Library Resource
    May, 2014

    This paper analyzes the available
    literature about the effects of structural adjustment
    programs (SAPs) on the environment and the convincing
    evidence for their success or failure. The studies covered
    refer to the SAPs by the World Bank as well as to general
    government programs that have similar policy implications.
    SAPs are designed to reform economies to become more
    liberalized and export-oriented while reducing the role of

  8. Library Resource
    October, 2014

    This paper develops a dynamic model that
    explains the pattern of population and production allocation
    in an economy with an urban location and a rural one.
    Agglomeration economies make urban dwellers benefit from a
    larger population living in the city and urban firms become
    more productive when they operate in locations with a larger
    labor force. However, congestion costs associated with a too
    large population size limit the process of urban-rural

  9. Library Resource
    April, 2014

    A pro-growth, pro-poor transport
    strategy (PGPTS) responsive to the second generation poverty
    reduction strategies (SGPRSs) and the millennium development
    goals (MDGs) are essential instruments to promote transport
    development that facilitates economic growth and poverty
    reduction. However, the national poverty reduction and
    transport strategy reviews, undertaken by Sub-Saharan Africa
    Transport Policy Program (SSATP) member countries, and the

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2014
    Global

    This paper starts with a brief
    perspective on urban transport in developing countries,
    followed by a detailed presentation of an overall framework
    for making projects in this sector. Additional details on
    cities and projects used as case studies are given in the
    accompanying tables. The challenge for the Bank is to assist
    client cities in providing transport infrastructure and
    services that respond to demographic, spatial and economic

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