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 4421 - 4425 of 4905Accommodating Migration to Promote Adaptation to Climate Change
This paper explains how climate change
may increase future migration, and which risks are
associated with such migration. It also examines how some of
this migration may enhance the capacity of communities to
adapt to climate change. Climate change is likely to result
in some increase above baseline rates of migration in the
next 40 years. Most of this migration will occur within
developing countries. There is little reason to think that
Health Investments and Economic Growth : Macroeconomic Evidence and Microeconomic Foundations
This paper reviews the correlations and
potential links between health and economic growth and
summarizes the evidence on the role of government in
improving health status. At the macroeconomic level, the
evidence of an impact of health on growth remains ambiguous
due both to difficulties in measuring health, and to the
methodological challenges of identifying causal links. The
evidence on the micro linkages from health investments to
Vietnam - Aligning Public Spending with Strategic Priorities in the Forestry Sector
Vietnam's forests remain dependent
on public resources, including international development
assistance, for the delivery of public and private services
that include timber production, state forest management,
forest protection and biodiversity conservation, and
extension and research. Public subsidies are also provided
to smallholder forest owners to stimulate investments into
the sector. For the Government it is important to
Georgia : Poverty assessment
This report presents a comprehensive
analysis of poverty and its main determinants using the most
recent 2007 Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) data.
It provides an in-depth analysis of rural poverty, the
linkages between labor markets and poverty, the importance
of social transfers for poverty alleviation, and the
progress made since 2003 in the health and education
sectors, and also presents some findings on incomes trends
Malawi - Mineral Sector Review : Source of Economic Growth and Development
This mineral sector review examines the
mineral sector as a potential source of growth and
development in Malawi. In seeking the World Bank's
assistance the Government of Malawi was particularly
interested in confirming the potential for mineral sector
growth, identifying which constraints to the development of
the sector need to be addressed by the Government and
suggesting strategies to foster a positive contribution by