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  1. Library Resource

    Year in Review, Volume 2. Financial statements

    Reports & Research
    December, 2009

    The World Bank group, among the world's largest development institutions, is a major source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. In fiscal 2009, the World Bank group sponsored 767 projects with a total commitment of $58.8 billion, distributed in credits, loans, grants, and guarantees. This fiscal year's funding marks a 54 percent increase over the previous fiscal year and a record high for the Bank group.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    May, 2016
    China, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    The reform of China's collectively owned forest land, began in 2008, is arguably the largest land-reform undertaking in modern times in terms of area and people affected. Under the reform, forest lands have been contracted to rural households, allowing them more independence in exercising their rights and interests in the forest lands, giving them more opportunities to improve family incomes, and creating incentives for them to cultivate, conserve, and manage forests. These lands are home to some 610 million people, many of them poor.

  3. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Indonesia

    There is still a long road ahead before all Indonesian's can benefit from the full potential of ICT. That road seems even longer to rural women. Despite some improvements in access and the rapid deployment of lower cost wireless technologies, not much has changed in rural areas of Indonesia. Infrastructure in rural areas is limited and existing services are expensive and practically outside of rural women's reach. Women still face enormous barriers and access to communications and information relevant to their realities is very limited.

  4. Library Resource
    August, 2012

    The demand for verifiable evidence of
    results and impacts of development agricultural programs and
    projects is growing. However, most of the indicators that
    development practitioners have traditionally used in
    tracking progress toward achieving projects' objectives
    focus on the workings of the development operation itself.
    These performance indicators relate mainly to lower-level
    inputs and outputs and are used to populate management

  5. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    The World Bank group, among the
    world's largest development institutions, is a major
    source of financial and technical assistance to developing
    countries around the world. In fiscal 2009, the World Bank
    group sponsored 767 projects with a total commitment of
    $58.8 billion, distributed in credits, loans, grants, and
    guarantees. This fiscal year's funding marks a 54
    percent increase over the previous fiscal year and a record

  6. 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

  7. Library Resource
    January, 2014
    Africa

    Regional trade in Africa can play a
    vital role in diversifying economies and reducing dependence
    on the export of a few mineral products, in delivering food
    and energy security, in generating jobs for the increasing
    numbers of young people, and in alleviating poverty and
    promoting a shared prosperity. Women play a key role in
    trade in Africa and will be essential to Africa's
    success in exploiting its trade potential. In many countries

  8. 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

  9. Library Resource
    January, 2016
    Honduras

    Honduras’ recent economic performance
    has been positive, especially taking into account the global
    economic context. Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth
    accelerated from 2.8 percent in 2013 to 3.1 percent in 2014
    and 3.6 percent in the first half of 2015. Growth has been
    supported by improved terms of trade, higher remittance
    inflows and export demand driven by the on-going recovery of
    the United States (US), and improved investor confidence.

  10. 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

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