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    Household-Level Evidence from the Chengdu National Experiment

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    August, 2015
    China, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    As part of a national experiment in 2008, Chengdu prefecture implemented ambitious property rights reforms, including complete registration of all land together with measures to ease transferability and eliminate migration restrictions. A triple difference approach using the Statistics Bureau’s regular household panel suggests that the reforms increased consumption and income, especially for less wealthy and less educated households, with estimated benefits well above the cost of implementation.

  2. Library Resource
    February, 2015
    India

    In the past 50 years, Indian agriculture
    has undergone a major transformation, from dependence on
    food aid to becoming a consistent net food exporter. The
    gradual reforms in the agricultural sector (following the
    broader macro-reforms of the early 1990s) spurred some
    unprecedented innovations and changes in the food sector
    driven by private investment. These impressive achievements
    must now be viewed in light of the policy and investment

  3. Library Resource
    January, 2015
    Bangladesh

    It is a virtual certainty that sea-level
    rise will continue throughout the century and beyond 2100
    even if greenhouse gas emissions are stabilized in the near
    future. Understanding the economic impacts of salinity
    intrusion thus is essential for planning adaptation in
    low-lying coastal areas around the world. This paper
    presents a case study in Bangladesh on how climate change
    leads to the spread of soil salinity and the impact on

  4. Library Resource
    April, 2015
    Haiti

    The objective of this report is to
    examine the linkages between rural economic activity, food
    insecurity and poverty in Haiti as a means of determining
    the barriers to rural development. The analysis draws on a
    newly available set of house-hold level living standards
    measurement data collected in 2012 (ECVMAS). About 70.7
    percent of all rural households are poor, and education
    levels are low with an average of 2.8 years of education for

  5. Library Resource
    April, 2015

    Millions of coffee farmers and coffee
    trading enterprises lack sufficient credit. This is partly
    due to myriad challenges and considerable costs that formal
    lending institutions face serving rural, often isolated
    markets. A better understanding of coffee sector risks is
    needed to respond with strategies, training, and tools that
    can help farmers and enterprises, mitigate their exposure to
    risk, and strengthen their resilience against inevitable

  6. Library Resource
    January, 2015

    This paper uses farm panel data from
    China to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine
    investments, and the demand for machine services. Recently,
    China's agriculture has experienced a large expansion
    of machine rentals and machine services provided by
    specialized agents, which has contributed to mechanization
    of agricultural production. The empirical results show that
    an increase in nonagricultural wage rates leads to expansion

  7. Library Resource
    November, 2015
    Global

    In July 2013, the World Bank Group
    launched its Strategy, outlining how it will partner more
    effectively with clients to help them achieve the ambitious
    goals of eradicating extreme poverty and boosting shared
    prosperity through economic growth, inclusion,
    sustainability and resilience. In April 2014, the World Bank
    Group Corporate Scorecard was launched for the first time
    and the World Bank Scorecard revised to monitor the

  8. Library Resource
    December, 2015

    This paper analyzes environmental
    reliance, poverty, and climate vulnerability among more than
    7,300 households in forest adjacent communities in 24
    developing countries. The data are from the detailed,
    quarterly income recording done by the Poverty Environment
    Network project. Observed income is combined with predicted
    income (based on households’ assets and other
    characteristics) to create four categories of households:

  9. Library Resource
    November, 2015
    Chad

    This systematic country diagnosis (SCD)
    for Chad aims to identify how to achieve the twin goals of
    ending poverty and improving shared prosperity. It
    acknowledges both: (i) the need for selectivity in pro-poor
    interventions, and (ii) the inherent difficulty to do so
    given the many competing binding reasons for poverty.
    Selectivity means the identification of principal
    opportunities for sustainable poverty reduction in the next

  10. Library Resource
    September, 2015
    Zambia

    Three of sub-Saharan Africa’s central
    economic realities motivate this study. First, agriculture
    is the most important sector in most African economies, on
    average accounting for nearly one-fourth of GDP. Second, the
    private sector is increasingly active in transforming
    African agriculture and economies. By 2030, agriculture and
    agribusiness are anticipated to become a US$ 1 trillion
    industry in Africa, delivering more jobs, income, and

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