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  1. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    Africa, South Africa

    This study analyzes the difficulties a
    poor community experienced in accessing peri-urban land in
    South Africa. This community, composed largely of laid-off
    farm workers, wanted to buy their own farm in a peri-urban
    area west of Johannesburg to establish a mixed-use
    settlement. The Ethembalethu 250 families started their own
    savings scheme to make their dream a reality. Millions of
    black South Africans live in the peri-urban areas. However,

  2. Library Resource
    January, 2015
    Africa, South Africa

    The authors use evidence from a survey of about 1200 beneficiaries of South African land reform to assess the performance of the initial phase of the land reform program. They find that the program has not lived up to the quantitative goals set, but did successfully target the poor. It has led to a significant number of economically successful projects that already generate sustainable revenues.

  3. Library Resource
    March, 2016
    Africa, Southern Africa

    Once concentrated among a few large
    economies, global flows of goods, services, and capital now
    reach an ever-larger number of countries worldwide. Global
    trade in goods and in services both increased 10 times
    between 1980 and 2011, while foreign direct investment (FDI)
    flows increased almost 30-fold. A value chain is global when
    some of these stages are carried out in more than one
    country, most notably when discrete tasks within a

  4. Library Resource
    March, 2016
    Africa, Southern Africa

    The countries comprising the Southern
    African Customs Union (SACU) are currently not very
    integrated into global value chains (GVCs), potentially
    missing out on important development opportunities.
    Accordingly, we explore high level options for promoting
    their integration. Given East Asia’s spectacular success
    with integrating into GVCs, we first assess the probability
    that SACU can copy their flying geese pattern. That was

  5. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    South Africa

    Countries everywhere are divided into
    two distinct spatial realms: one urban, one rural. Classic
    models of development predict faster growth in the urban
    sector, causing rapid migration from rural areas to cities,
    lifting average incomes in both places. The process
    continues until the marginal productivity of labor is
    equalized across the two realms. The pattern of rising
    urbanization accompanying economic growth has become one of

  6. Library Resource
    February, 2015
    Africa, South Africa

    This paper uses the 2010/11 Income and
    Expenditure Survey for South Africa to analyze the
    progressivity of the main tax and social spending programs
    and quantify their impact on poverty and inequality. The
    paper also assesses the redistributive effectiveness of
    fiscal interventions given the resources used. Because it
    applies the Commitment to Equity methodology, the results
    for South Africa can be compared with other middle-income

  7. Library Resource
    December, 2015
    Botswana

    This document details the scope and the
    main elements of the Country Partnership Framework (CPF)
    with the Republic of Botswana for FY16-20. The previous
    Country Partnership Strategy (CPS), considered by the Board
    on May 21, 2009 and completed in 2013 has built a solid
    foundation to design the new World Bank Group (WBG) program.
    The CPF supports the government’s ongoing National
    Development Plan (NDP10) that has recently been extended

  8. Library Resource
    July, 2016
    Lesotho

    Lesotho is one of the poorest countries
    in Southern Africa, and has one of the highest income
    inequality in the world. Home to about 2 million people,
    Lesotho is surrounded by South Africa, the second largest
    and most industrialized economy in Africa. Lesotho generates
    income mainly by exporting textiles, water, and diamonds,
    and is a member of the Southern African Customs Union
    (SACU), the Southern African Development Community (SADC),

  9. Library Resource
    June, 2015
    Botswana

    This Botswana Agriculture Public
    Expenditure Review (AgPER) is one of a series of similar
    studies undertaken in over a dozen countries in sub-Saharan
    Africa under the framework of a program coordinated by
    CAADP, supported by the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation and
    the CAADP Multi-Donor Trust Fund, and implemented by the
    World Bank. The AgPER presents data about actual expenditure
    for the period 2000 to 2013, with an outlook on the

  10. Library Resource
    July, 2014
    Namibia

    The Country Opinion Survey for FY2013 in Namibia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Namibia perceive the WBG.

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