Every year, the Global Monitoring Report
(GMR) gauges progress across the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs), so we can better understand whether we are
delivering on basic global needs. These needs include
affordable, nutritious food; access to health services and

The Nepal Poverty Alleviation Fund is a
World Bank supported community-driven development program.
Its objective is to improve rural welfare, particularly for
groups that have traditionally been excluded for reasons of
gender, ethnicity, caste, and location. Since its launch in

What is needed to deliver on the AAA, and what the international donors and the World Bank Group need to do.

The main focus of this book is land
redistribution. To forge greater consensus among
practitioners of land reform, and to enable them to make
better choices among the many options, the book describes
and analyzes alternative broad paths of implementation,

Increased levels and volatility of food
prices has led to a surge of interest in large-scale
agriculture and land acquisition. This creates challenges
for policy makers aiming to establish a policy environment
conducive to an agrarian structure to contribute to

Livelihoods, food security, and
development processes in Sub-Saharan Africa are highly
dependent on land management practices to generate natural
ecosystem goods and services. Out of a total population of
about 717 million people, almost 60 percent depend for their

As Vietnam enters a crucial period of
urbanization corresponding to its present stage of economic
development, the Government of Vietnam has placed strong
emphasis on developing its system of cities. In accordance
with this objective this Urbanization Review is dedicated to

The development and business communities
involved in the African agriculture and agribusiness sectors
have recently experienced a strong resurgence of interest in
promoting value chains as an approach that can help design
interventions geared to add value, lower transaction costs,

The term 'green jobs' can
refer to employment in a narrowly defined set of industries
providing environmental services. But it is more useful for
the policy-maker to focus on the broader issue of the
employment consequences of policies to correct environmental

The World Bank's 11 Pacific Island
member countries are a diverse group in terms of economic
and social conditions. Five are least developed countries,
with annual per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as low
as US$ 700, while in some of the territories average incomes

Interest in farmland is rising. And,
given commodity price volatility, growing human and
environmental pressures, and worries about food security,
this interest will increase, especially in the developing
world. One of the highest development priorities in the

Around the world, countries are becoming
urbanized at an astonishing pace. As countries develop
economically, their economies shift from mainly rural and
agrarian to increasingly urban and nonagricultural. This
rural-urban transformation presents both opportunities and