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    Performance, Challenges, and Options

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    November, 2015
    Nicaragua, Latin America and the Caribbean

    This work summarizes background papers prepared for the World Bank Group with significant input from government counterparts and other development partners. It takes stock of major recent developments and argues that a lot has been achieved in the last decade in terms of production of commodities for export and food consumption, with favorable impact on rural poverty reduction. It also argues that the two factors driving the recent agricultural performance, namely favorable international prices and expansion of the agricultural frontier, have reached their limits.

  2. Library Resource

    Agricultural Sector Risk Assessment

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    November, 2015
    Kenya

    Despite myriad challenges, Kenya has emerged in recent years as one of Africa’s frontier economies, with headline growth in the most recent decade propelling the country toward middle-income status. Less well understood is how risk dynamics associated with production, markets, and policy adversely impact sector performance, in terms of both influencing ex ante decision making among farmers, traders, and other sector stakeholders and causing ex post losses to crops, livestock, and incomes - destabilizing livelihoods and jeopardizing the country’s food security.

  3. Library Resource
    November, 2015

    In countries ravaged by a history of
    civil war and genocide, the overarching goal for local
    government and international donors alike is to promote
    social cohesion, stability and community reconstruction. In
    Sierra Leone, reconstruction programs emphasize a
    decentralized approach to: (i) rapidly build market
    institutions; (ii) enhance community decision making; and
    (iii) strengthen intra and inter-community tolerance and

  4. Library Resource
    November, 2015

    This aquaculture sector review (with
    supply chain mapping) has been implemented within the
    framework of the International Finance Corporation (IFC)
    Armenia investment climate reform project implemented by the
    World Bank Group trade and competitiveness global practice,
    in partnership with Austria’s federal ministry of finance
    and Hungarian partnership funding and Hungary Export Import
    (EXIM) Bank. This project aims to contribute to improving

  5. Library Resource
    November, 2015

    Between 2008 and 2012 the urban/rural poverty divide substantially narrowed
    down, which was the result of relatively stable rural and rising urban poverty rates. Over the same period, food inflation spiked, whereby strong links between domestic and global price movements were observed owed to major import dependence on food. The high shares of consumption that households dedicate to food, especially among the poor, leave limited scope to deal with food price surges by economizing on non-food

  6. Library Resource
    November, 2015
    Laos

    The report starts with an overview of
    poverty and inequality estimates in chapter one, focusing on
    the trends in poverty and the distributional pattern of
    growth between 2002-3 and 2012-13. Chapter two then provides
    a description of the poverty profile by geographical and
    household characteristics, both in terms of the levels of
    poverty and its rate of change. Consumption patterns are
    presented in chapter three, and other socio-economic

  7. Library Resource
    November, 2015
    Myanmar

    The Country Partnership Framework (CPF)
    will succeed the Myanmar interim strategy note (FY13-14) and
    be the first full country strategy for Myanmar since 1984.
    This CPF comes at a time of great opportunity for Myanmar;
    over the three year period covered in this CPF, the reforms
    initiated in 2011 have the potential to bring Myanmar into a
    new era of peace and prosperity. Myanmar s history, ethnic
    diversity, and geography combine into a unique set of

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2015
    Mongolia

    Mongolia’s ongoing economic transition generates levels of uncertainty that often inhibit investments in
    productivity and marketing improvements on the part of producers and processors. This study was undertaken to identify gaps in policies, laws, regulations, and practices from production
    to the consumer end point, and to stimulate discussions about how to leverage the agriculture sector’s
    potential contributions to national development objectives.

  9. Library Resource
    November, 2015

    This study estimates the impact of
    Kenya’s post-election violence on individual risk
    preferences. Because the crisis interrupted a longitudinal
    survey of more than five thousand Kenyan youth, this timing
    creates plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to civil
    conflict by the time of the survey. The study measures
    individual risk preferences using hypothetical lottery
    choice questions, which are validated by showing that they

  10. Library Resource
    November, 2015
    Asia, South-Eastern Asia

    This report summarizes the knowledge
    shared and issues raised during a conference convened by the
    World Bank on the above topic held on November 3-5, 2014 in
    Manila, Philippines. Building on earlier conferences on this
    topic, the conference aimed to raise awareness about, and
    share good practice on, building a social protection system
    that integrates disaster risk management and climate change
    adaptation. It brought together 17 country delegations from

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