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  1. Library Resource
    September, 2014
    Africa

    This Africa's pulse newsletter
    includes the following headings: Sub-Saharan African
    countries continue to grow at a steady pace; the
    region's decade-long economic expansion appears
    sustainable; and for newly resource-rich countries, strong
    governance will be key to harnessing resource wealth for development

  2. Library Resource
    January, 2014
    Congo

    The Congo Basin represents 70 percent of
    the African continent's forest cover and constitutes a
    large portion of Africa's biodiversity. Agricultural
    development is a central lever to help people out of
    poverty, as well as a key driver of deforestation.
    Forest-friendly agricultural development is a challenge for
    the region. This report describes some ways forest-friendly
    agricultural development can materialize in the Congo Basin.

  3. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Brazil

    Since 2006, there has been an explosion
    of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) projects in
    Brazil, as well as efforts to pass PES laws at federal,
    state, and municipal levels. Even in this short period, an
    extraordinarily rich range of experiences has developed,
    with examples of the application of PES at a variety of
    scales, ranging from microwatersheds to entire states; in a
    variety of contexts, from remote forest frontier areas to

  4. Library Resource
    March, 2014
    Indonesia

    This paper uses farm panel data from
    Indonesia to examine dynamic patterns of land use, capital
    investments, and wages in agriculture. The empirical
    analysis shows that an increase in real wages has induced
    the substitution of labor by machines among relatively large
    farmers. Large farmers tend to increase the scale of
    operation by renting in more land when real wages increase.
    Machines and land are complementary if the scale of

  5. Library Resource
    April, 2014

    Knowledge exchange, or peer-to-peer
    learning, is a powerful way to share, replicate, and scale
    up what works in development. Development practitioners want
    to learn from the practical experience of others who have
    gone through, or are going through, similar challenges. They
    want to be connected to each other and have ready access to
    practical knowledge and solutions. When done right,
    knowledge exchange can build the capacity, confidence, and

  6. Library Resource
    September, 2014
    Tajikistan

    Climate change presents significant
    threats to sustainable poverty reduction in Tajikistan. The
    primary impacts on rural livelihoods are expected to stem
    from reduced water quantity and quality (affecting
    agriculture), and increased frequency and severity of
    disasters. Options for farming households to autonomously
    adapt (and thereby move from climate vulnerability to
    resilience) include adoption of on-farm and off-farm

  7. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Vietnam

    The authors examine the impact of land
    reform in Vietnam which gives households the power to
    exchange, transfer, lease, inherit, and mortgage their
    land-use rights. The authors expect this change to increase
    the incentives as well as the ability to undertake long-term
    investments on the part of households. Their
    difference-in-differences estimation strategy takes
    advantage of the variation across provinces in the issuance

  8. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Vietnam

    While liberalizing key factor markets is
    a crucial step in the transition from a socialist
    control-economy to a market economy, the process can be
    stalled by imperfect information, high transaction costs,
    and covert resistance from entrenched interests. The authors
    study land-market adjustment in the wake of Vietnam's
    reforms aiming to establish a free market in land-use rights
    following de-collectivization. Inefficiencies in the initial

  9. Library Resource
    December, 2014

    Evidence is mounting that secure
    property rights have positive effects for poor people in
    general and women in particular. The aim of this report is
    to review what is known about women s access to and control
    over land and real property in urban settings, identifying
    approaches to strengthening property rights that enhance
    women s agency, and sharing key lessons. Section two
    synthesizes the evidence on urban women s priorities with

  10. Library Resource
    December, 2014

    Land tenure security is crucial for
    women's empowerment and a prerequisite for building
    secure and resilient communities. Tenure is affected by many
    and often contradictory sets of rules, laws, customs,
    traditions, and perceptions. For most rural women, land
    tenure is complicated, with access and ownership often
    layered with barriers present in their daily realities:
    discriminatory social dynamics and strata, unresponsive

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