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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Indonesia - Investing in the future
of Papua and West Papua : Infrastructure for sustainable development
The remote and sparsely populated
provinces of Papua and West Papua face a time of great
change. Monetary transfers from Jakarta have grown
extraordinarily in recent years, by more than 600 percent in
real terms and 1300 percent in nominal terms since 2000,
greatly increasing demand for goods and services. The high
price of imports in the interior is producing pressure to
improve roads in order to lower transport costs. Pressure is
Under What Conditions Does a Carbon Tax on Fossil Fuels Stimulate Biofuels?
A carbon tax is an efficient economic
instrument to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide released
from fossil fuel burning. Its impacts on production of
renewable energy depend on how it is designed --
particularly in the context of the penetration of biofuels
into the energy supply mix for road transportation. Using a
multi-sector, multi-country computable general equilibrium
model, this study shows first that a carbon tax with the
Vulnerability of Bangladesh to Cyclones in a Changing Climate : Potential Damages and Adaptation Cost
This paper integrates information on
climate change, hydrodynamic models, and geographic overlays
to assess the vulnerability of coastal areas in Bangladesh
to larger storm surges and sea-level rise by 2050. The
approach identifies polders (diked areas), coastal
populations, settlements, infrastructure, and economic
activity at risk of inundation, and estimates the cost of
damage versus the cost of several adaptation measures. A
Improving Wastewater Use in Agriculture : An Emerging Priority
Wastewater use in agriculture is a
growing practice worldwide. Drivers include increasing water
stress, in part due to climate change; increasing
urbanization and growing wastewater flows; and more urban
households engaged in agricultural activities. The problem
with this trend is that in low-income countries, but also in
many middle-income countries, it either involves the direct
use of untreated wastewater or the indirect use of polluted
The Sunken Billions : The Economic
Justification for Fisheries Reform
This study and previous studies indicate
that the current marine catch could be achieved with
approximately half of the current global fishing effort. In
other words, there is massive overcapacity in the global
fleet. The excess fleets competing for the limited fish
resources result in stagnant productivity and economic
inefficiency. In response to the decline in physical
productivity, the global fleet has attempted to maintain