This sector policy paper examines recent developments in the global rubber market that form the basis for establishing World Bank policies in lending for natural rubber production. Building on a comprehensive...
A basic premise of this paper is that carefully implemented agricultural research can be an efficient source of economic growth and is an important contributor to the achievement of key development objectives...
Technological change in agriculture has been a mainspring of economic transformation and growth, increasing food production in such a way as to release capital and labor for nonagricultural activity. Carefully...
Most developing countries are characterized by a rapidly growing population and labor force. While much of this labor force will be absorbed in traditional agriculture, an increasing amount of labor will...
This report discusses forestry and development; the scope and prospects for forest development; and the role of the Bank in forestry. Forests play a significant role in economic development. In addition...
The financing of development finance companies (DFCs) has been the World Bank's major mechanism for assisting medium-scale productive enterprises in member countries. The Bank has now financed a wide variety...
The task of accommodating the unprecedented increase in the number of urban dwellers in developing countries and improving their living standards poses a major challenge not only for urban development...
The task of accommodating the unprecedented increase in the number of urban dwellers in developing countries and improving their living standards poses a major challenge not only for urban development...
This paper on urban transport is set in the broader context of the critical problem for developing countries of urbanization. The paper states that urban development and rural development complement each...
Land reform is concerned with changing the institutional structure governing man's relationship with the land. At present, the livelihood of more than half of mankind depends directly on agriculture. Nine-tenths...
The World Bank's lending for agricultural credit has expanded considerably in recent years. Credit is now the largest component in the bank's agricultural lending. In the course of this expansion, a number...
This paper concerns changing the institutional structure governing land reform. At present the livelihood of more than half of mankind depends directly on agriculture. Nine-tenths of this total agricultural...
This is the first study published by the World Bank that is specifically addressed to health issues. Direct lending for health projects has not been part of the Bank's activities, although its operations...
Rural development is a strategy designed to improve the economic and social life of a specific group of people - the rural poor. It involves extending the benefits of development to the poorest among those...