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 3821 - 3825 of 4907Ethiopia - In Makeda's Footsteps : Towards a Strategy for Pro-Poor Tourism Development
The Government of Ethiopia (GOE) has set in train an initiative to develop the tourism sector in Ethiopia. This study supports this objective through in depth analysis of the supply and demand sides of the sector and by proposing a focused and viable strategy to grow tourist visitation and revenues whilst supporting the GOE poverty reduction goals.
The Investment Climate in Brazil, India, and South Africa : A Comparison of Approaches for Sustaining Economic Growth in Emerging Economies
This book seeks to contribute to the
sharing of knowledge between Brazil, India, and South
Africa, three of the largest emerging economies today. By
assessing and comparing the investment climate in each, the
authors seek to profile concrete steps that countries can
take to improve the business environment. The authors focus
particularly on identifying the commonalities and
differences both within and among the three countries and
How China's Farmers Adapt to Climate Change
This paper uses a cross sectional method
to analyze irrigation choice and crop choice across 8,405
farmers in 28 provinces in China. The findings show that
Chinese farmers are more likely to irrigate when facing
lower temperatures and less precipitation. Farmers in
warmer places are more likely to choose oil crops, maize,
and especially cotton and wheat, and are less likely to
choose vegetables, potatoes, sugar, and especially rice and
Public-Private Partnerships in Transport
This paper summarizes the evidence on
the evolution of transport PPPs over the last 15 years or
so. In the process, it provides a primer on the associated
policy issues, including of the central role of project
finance in the implementation of PPP policies and the
debates on risk allocation in the design of PPPs. The paper
also offers a discussion of the increasingly well recognized
residual roles for the public sector in transport, with an
Madagascar : Back to the Future on the Road to Sustained and Balanced Growth, Country Economic Memorandum, Volume 2, Annexes
The objective of this study is to
accompany Malagasy authorities in their transition towards
economic emergence. If the contribution of foreign capital
and the abundance of natural resources should help the
Malagasy economy escape from the poverty trap by increasing
its domestic savings and investment capacities, as well as
its technological capacities. International experience
reminds us that this transition is far from being automatic.