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- 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.
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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
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Displaying 1776 - 1780 of 4907The Impact of Higher Oil Prices on Low Income Countries and on the Poor
The rapid and large oil price rise
experienced during 2004 has created widespread concern about
its impact on low income countries and on poor households in
many countries. To appreciate the magnitude of this impact
and to formulate policies to ameliorate these effects, a
number of questions need to be answered. What are the routes
by which countries are impacted? Which countries are most
vulnerable to oil shocks? What determines the degree of
On the Timing of Marriage, Cattle, and Weather Shocks in Rural Zimbabwe
The authors focus on the timing of
marriages of women in rural Zimbabwe. Zimbabwean marriages
are associated with bride welath payments, which are
transfers from (the family of) the groom to the bride's
family. Unmarried daughters could therefore be considered
assets who, at time of need, can be cashed in. The authors
investigate to what extent the timing of a marriage of a
daughter is affected by the economic conditions of the
Urban Transport Services in Sub-Saharan Africa : Improving Vehicle Operations
The report presents findings, and the
way forward in respect of the Knowledge and Research (KAR)
Project on vehicle operations in Sub-Saharan Africa,
basically undertaken in Uganda and Ghana. In the first
phase, the study identified problems faced by transport
operators in both countries, and analyzed their impact on
vehicle operating costs, as well as examining transport
regulations, and current organization of transport services
Integrating Gender into World Bank Financed Transport Programs : Component 1. Case Study Summary and Final Report
The World Bank in November 2001
commissioned IC Net Limited of Japan to carry out a study
titled 'Integrating Gender into World Bank Financed
Transport Programs' in accord with the terms of
reference (TOR) issued in June 2001. The study was financed
by a grant from the Japanese Large Studies Trust Fund. The
contract came into effect on 15 December 2001 and covers the
period to 15 June 2004. IC Net was to work in association
The Long-run Economic Costs of AIDS : Theory and an Application to South Africa
Most existing estimates of the
macroeconomic costs of AIDS, as measured by the reduction in
the growth rate of gross domestic product, are modest. For
Africa-the continent where the epidemic has hit the
hardest-they range between 0.3 and 1.5 percent annually. The
reason is that these estimates are based on an underlying
assumption that the main effect of increased mortality is to
relieve pressure on existing land and physical capital so