Modern inputs and mechanization are promoted across Africa to raise smallholder labor productivity and broker the structural transformation. Yet, adoption has remained low and the implications for returns...
How big is the financing gap to achieve the 2030 sustainable development goals (SDGs)? Can private capital fill the gap? This note provides an updated overview of estimates of SDG financing in low- and...
The relationship between violence and chronic poverty has been studied mostly in the context of war or long- term episodes of conflict. In contrast to previous studies, this paper explores whether violence...
When delegates from Poland signed the Articles of Agreement on June 27th 1986, Poland officially became the 150th member country of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. A milestone...
The governance partnership facility (GPF) supported program mainstreaming governance in Tajikistan portfolio (FY2010-14) was a landmark achievement in applying governance analysis and looking for entry...
Within this context, there are significant opportunities to harness Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Open and Distance Learning (ODL) in teacher education, especially to deliver pre-service...
The January 25th revolution is an enormously important political event for Egypt, but attention to its economic consequences is also vital. The Egyptian revolution reflected a popular movement in favor...
In the first semester of 2011, three new projects reached financial closure in the International Development Association (IDA) countries of Lao PDR, Malawi and Zambia, representing investment commitments...
A well-organized and effective finance ministry and its associated central finance agencies (CFAs) are essential to good fiscal outcomes. Recent studies of CFAs in selected low-income countries demonstrate...
Early microfinance pioneers created the sector with the aspiration to improve poor people's lives. There were huge swathes of 'white space' where low-income households had little or no access to formal...
Early microfinance pioneers created the sector with the aspiration to improve poor people's lives. There were huge swathes of 'white space' where low-income households had little or no access to formal...
Early microfinance pioneers created the sector with the aspiration to improve poor people's lives. There were huge swathes of 'white space' where low-income households had little or no access to formal...
Earnings from farming in many developing countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies as well as by Governments of richer countries favoring their farmers with import barriers...
The papers in this volume examine the links between gender, time use, and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. They contribute to a broader definition of poverty to include time poverty, and to a broader definition...
On September 24, 2005, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number seventy three. It is resolved that the Council of Governors of the Agency consider...
The Caribbean region is at a development crossroads and its member nations must take significant and concrete steps to improve productivity and competitiveness and face up to global competition if they...
The Caribbean region is at a development crossroads and its member nations must take significant and concrete steps to improve productivity and competitiveness and face up to global competition if they...
The workshop entitled, Initiating the Bank's Peri Urban / Rural and Renewable Energy Activities in Nigeria was divided in two parts. Part 1, Energizing rural energy transformation by : scaling up electricity...
This report describes the Beneficiary Assessment (BA) study done to support the Multi-Country AIDS Program (MAP) in Niger in 2002. BA was chosen as a key research tool largely due to a drive for responsive...
The policy objectives in a typical post-war economy would be to restore and maintain peace, improve security, prevent the renewal of war, facilitate rapid socio-economic recovery, and start to build the...