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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    June, 2014
    Mozambique

    A agricultura familiar em Moçambique constitui a actividade económica que ocupa grande parte da população, podendo alcançar mais de 75% dos cidadãos.

  2. Library Resource
    September, 2014
    Nicaragua

    The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
    and the World Bank introduced the Poverty Reduction Strategy
    Paper (PRSP) process in 1999 to strengthen the poverty
    alleviation focus of their assistance to low-income
    countries. This report reviews Nicaragua s experience with
    the PRSP process, focusing on the effectiveness of IMF and
    World Bank support to the process and the extent to which
    the two institutions lending and non-lending activities in

  3. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Bolivia

    The authors empirically estimate the
    impact of social capital on household welfare in
    Bolivia--where they found 67 different types of local
    associations. They focus on household memberships in local
    associations as being especially relevant to daily decisions
    that affect household welfare and consumption. On average,
    households belong to 1.4 groups and associations: 62 percent
    belong to agrarian syndicates, 16 percent to production

  4. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Cambodia, Laos

    Environmental degradation can inflict
    serious damage on poor people because their livelihoods
    often depend on natural resource use and their living
    conditions may offer little protection from air, water, and
    soil pollution. At the same time, poverty-constrained
    options may induce the poor to deplete resources and degrade
    the environment at rates that are incompatible with
    long-term sustainability. In such cases, degraded resources

  5. Library Resource
    May, 2014

    This review systematically assesses the
    focus of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) on
    environment-related issues. A total of 40 Interim and full
    PRSPs from countries in Africa, Latin America and Eastern
    Europe, the Middle East, Central and East Asia are reviewed.
    Four major questions: are posed: (i) What issues of
    environmental concerns and opportunities are identified in
    the PRSPs?; (ii) To what extent are poverty-environment

  6. Library Resource
    August, 2014

    This report summarizes the proceedings
    from a workshop, the first in the region designed to foster
    a multi-sectoral approach to development energy services for
    poverty reduction, held at the Hilton Hotel in Addis Ababa,
    Ethiopia, October 23-25, 2002. It was co-organized by the
    World Bank-UNDP sponsored Energy Sector Management
    Assistance Program (ESMAP) and the World Bank Africa Energy
    Unit, and others. The report focuses on the key issues

  7. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Afghanistan

    This paper provides an institutional
    record of the implementation experiences of all the four
    World Bank-assisted National Emergency Employment Program
    (NEEP)/National Rural Access Program (NRAP) projects and
    evaluates the impact on community members of the improved
    rural access that the projects have provided. It is based on
    desk reviews of project documentation, supervision mission
    notes, field visits to communities in rural areas, and

  8. Library Resource
    May, 2014

    Country Assistance Strategies (CASs)
    have been periodically reviewed from a variety of different
    perspectives. This review assesses how environment is
    integrated in CASs for 2005 and also compares the progress
    made by 37 countries over the period of 1999-2005. Five
    themes are used to assess the 23 CASs across an established
    methodology also used in previous reviews. The five themes
    are: issues identification, treatment, mainstreaming,

  9. Library Resource
    April, 2014

    This document aims to provide background
    information and motivation regarding bioenergy's role
    in promoting sustainable rural development. It discusses
    ways to support the implementation of bioenergy through
    policies, including those that can mobilize private sector
    activity. Volume I, the main report provides an overview of
    implementation issues for bioenergy projects and programs;
    Volume II provides technical information regarding biomass

  10. Library Resource
    July, 2014

    The World Bank's revised forest
    policy came into being in 2002 and covers all types of
    forests. It has the following key objectives: (i) harnessing
    the potential of forests to reduce poverty in a sustainable
    manner; (ii) integrating forests effectively into
    sustainable development; and (iii) protecting vital local
    and global environmental services and values. The policy
    enables the bank to fully engage in forestry throughout the

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