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  1. Library Resource
    January, 2005
    Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Moldova, Belarus, South Africa, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tanzania, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Brazil, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean

    This brief explores the reform of land tenure institutions which re-emerged in the 1990s, and asks if these reforms are any more gender sensitive than those of the past?The paper highlights that a focus of the recent reforms has been on land titling, designed to promote security of tenure and stimulate land markets. The reforms have often been driven by domestic and external neoliberal coalitions, with funding from global and regional organisations which have argued that private property rights are essential for a dynamic agricultural sector.

  2. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Brazil

    This report finalized in March 2001
    constitutes a step toward the objective of designing an
    integrated strategy for rural poverty reduction in Brazil,
    The report contains an updated and more detailed profile of
    the rural poor in the northeast (NE) and southeast (SE) of
    Brazil; identifies key determinants of rural poverty in
    these regions; and proposes a five-pronged strategic
    framework in which to couch a set of integrated policies

  3. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Brazil

    Over the medium time horizon, skill upgrading, differentials in sectoral technological progress, and migration of labor out of farming activities are some of the major structural adjustment factors shaping the evolution of an economy and its connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock interacts with these structural forces and ascertaining whether it enhances or hinders medium-term poverty reduction.

  4. Library Resource
    September, 2014
    Brazil

    This case study is one of six
    evaluations of the implementation of the World Bank's
    1991 Forest Strategy. This and the other cases (Cameroon,
    China, Costa Rica, India, and Indonesia) complement a review
    of the entire set of lending and nonlending activities of
    the World Bank Group and the Global Environment Facility.
    The World Bank has clearly diminished its lending presence
    in the Amazon in the past decade. It has moved from the

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