Documents et rapports

Decentralization briefing notes (anglais)

The notes in this report are designed to highlight the broad range of issues that need to be considered with regard to decentralization. They are intended to provide brief overviews of the many different...

L'Agriculture et l'Environnement - Étude Prospective sur le Développement Rural Durable (français)

Au cours des deux dernières années, la Banque mondiale a revu sa stratégie de développement rural, puis en a conçu une nouvelle où elle renouvelle son engagement envers un développement solide du secteur...

Agriculture and the environment - perspectives on sustainable rural development : Agricultura y medio ambiente - perspectivas sobre el desarrollo rural sostenible (espagnol)

The World Bank has, over the past two years, revisited its rural development strategy and in turn developed a new one, through a renewed commitment to sound development in the rural sector, and seeks to...

Decentralization briefing notes (albanais)

The notes in this report are designed to highlight the broad range of issues that need to be considered with regard to decentralization. They are intended to provide brief overviews of the many different...

Agriculture and the environment - perspectives on sustainable rural development (anglais)

The World Bank has, over the past two years, revisited its rural development strategy and in turn developed a new one, through a renewed commitment to sound development in the rural sector, and seeks to...

Green national accounts : policy uses and empirical experience (anglais)

Environmental performance indicators have taken on a key role in many countries. Natural resource and environmental accounts, with their coupling to economic accounts and indicators, promise to provide...

Costs, benefits, and farmer adoptionof agroforestry : lessons from project experience in Central America and Caribbean (anglais)

This note summarizes the results of a study of twenty-one agroforestry projects in six Central American and two Caribbean countries which analyzed the profitability of agroforestry for farmers as a crucial...

A cost-benefit approach to soil conservation (anglais)

The research presented here used cost-benefit analysis to investigate the nature and severity of soil degradation problems in Central American and the Caribbean and to assess the cost-effectiveness of...

Costs, benefits, and farmer adoption of agroforestry : project experience in Central America and the Caribbean (anglais)

Developing countries are facing major challenges to their rural land use, including deforestation, increasing scarcity of tree products, and environmental degradation on fragile agricultural lands. One...

The costs and benefits of agro-forestry to farmers (anglais)

Deforestation, growing scarcity of tree products, and environmental degradation has created serious problems for rural land use in many developing countries. Agroforestry, a system in which/ woody perennials...

Making development sustainable : from concepts to action (anglais)

Since the establishment of the Environment Department in 1987, the Bank has made a concentrated effort to incorporate environmental concerns into its lending and advisory activities. In January of 1993...

The World Bank research observer 9 (2) (anglais)

Evaluating social policies: principles and U.S. experience. Using randomized control designs in evaluating social sector programs in developing countries. AIDS and African development. Privatization: lessons...

The costs and benefits of soil conservation : the farmers' viewpoint (anglais)

Most countries in Central America and the Caribbean depend heavily on agriculture; efforts to sustain and improve the sector's productivity are therefore crucial to the region's economic development and...

Economic and institutional analyses of soil conservation projects in Central America and the Caribbean (anglais)

The work presented in this report was motivated by an interest in understanding the extent of soil degradation in Central America and the Caribbean, in knowing how farmers are in general responding to...

Interdisciplinary fact finding on current deforestation in Costa Rica (anglais)

Rapid deforestation of tropical forests has received worldwide attention. Yet our understanding of the actual facts of deforestation tends to be limited, derived from satellite or aerial photographs or...

Toward improved accounting for the environment (anglais)

Accounting for wealth and income is important. Individuals as well as nations wish to measure their capital stock and in particular their sustainable income which they may consume without living beyond...

A survey of resource and environmental accounting in industrialized countries (anglais)

The purpose of this report is to describe current and planned efforts to make national economic accounting systems more responsive to changes in the environment and natural resources, and to point out...

Environmental accounting for sustainable development (anglais)

This volume contains selected papers from a series of workshops jointly sponsored by the World Bank and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The main objective of the workshops was to ascertain...

Environmental and resource accounting : an overview (anglais)

Analysis of supply trends of World Bank projects by origin, destination and category, 1971-80 (anglais)

This paper was done as a by-product of a project on trade in services. The analysis is based on the disbursements data base for World Bank projects. Included among the findings of the analysis: Local procurement...