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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    September, 2008
    Dominican Republic, Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Latin America and the Caribbean

    This study on Latin America is based on a sample of eight countries, comprising the big four economies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico; Colombia and Ecuador, two of the poorest South American tropical countries; the Dominican Republic, the largest Caribbean economy; and Nicaragua, the poorest country in Central America. Together, in 2000-04, these countries accounted for 78 percent of the region's population, 80 percent of the region's agricultural value added, and 84 percent of the total gross domestic product (GDP) of Latin America.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    March, 2010
    Haiti, Latin America and the Caribbean

    Coffee is an ecologically and economically significant crop for Haiti. It is not only the main source of income for more than 100,000 farmers, but the coffee ecosystem also sustains a large part of the remaining tree cover (currently at less than 1.5 percent of land) of the country. This report does not aim to detail the structural constraints impacting upon the Haitian coffee sub-sector.

  3. Library Resource
    June, 2013
    Dominican Republic

    An estimated 80,000-100,000 Dominican
    farmers produce coffee and cocoa, nearly 40 percent of all
    agricultural producers. The sectors also provide employment
    for tens of thousands of field laborers and persons employed
    in linked economic activities. The majority of coffee and
    cocoa producers are small-scale and most are located in
    environmentally sensitive watersheds. Recent trends in
    international commodity markets have challenged the survival

  4. Library Resource
    September, 2013
    Dominican Republic

    This report discusses the affects of
    rapid economic growth and increased urbanization on the
    environmental quality of the Dominican Republic's
    natural resource base (e.g., water resources
    management--water quality, quantity and watershed management
    and solid waste collection and disposal have become major
    environmental concerns). It notes that the lack of
    systematic data limits an accurate and detailed assessment

  5. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    Haiti

    This paper addresses labor markets in
    Haiti, including farm and nonfarm employment and income
    generation. The analyses are based on the first Living
    Conditions Survey of 7,186 households covering the whole
    country and representative at the regional level. The
    findings suggest that four key determinants of employment
    and productivity in nonfarm activities are education,
    gender, location, and migration status. This is emphasized

  6. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Jamaica

    This Public Expenditure Review (PER) builds on the commitments of the 2003 Country Economic Memorandum (CEM), and 2002 Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) Progress Report, being its primary objective to assess strengths and weaknesses in key areas of public expenditure, and identify policy options for fiscal sustainability. Jamaica's high debt aggravates debt sustainability and efforts to improve growth.

  7. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Haiti

    The overall objective of the present study is to contribute to the knowledge-base that is urgently required for the implementation of sustainable rural development activities in Haiti.

  8. Library Resource
    February, 2013
    Jamaica

    This report forms part of the technical
    assistance provided by the World Bank under the Non-lending
    Technical Assistance Program for the Caribbean
    'market-based agriculture risk management in the
    Caribbean.' The program is largely financed by the
    European Union All Agriculture Commodities Program (AACP)
    Initiative and contributions from the International Fund for
    Agriculture Development (IFAD) and the World Bank. This

  9. Library Resource
    February, 2015
    Haiti

    Despite a decline in both monetary and
    multidimensional poverty rates since 2000, Haiti remains
    among the poorest and most unequal countries in Latin
    America. Two years after the 2010 earthquake, poverty was
    still high, particularly in rural areas. This report
    establishes that in 2012 more than one in two Haitians was
    poor, living on less than $ 2.41 a day, and one person in
    four was living below the national extreme poverty line of

  10. 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

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