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  1. Library Resource

    Unlocking the Potential of Agribusiness

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    March, 2013
    Kenya, Burkina Faso, Zambia, Ghana, Senegal, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa

    This report highlights the great potential of the agribusiness sector in Africa by drawing on experience in Africa as well as other regions. The evidence demonstrates that good policies, a conducive business environment, and strategic support from governments can help agribusiness reach its potential. Africa is now at a crossroads, from which it can take concrete steps to realize its potential or continue to lose competitiveness, missing a major opportunity for increased growth, employment, and food security. The report pursues several lines of analysis.

  2. Library Resource

    Economic Diversification and Growth in the Era of Oil and Volatility

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    June, 2015
    Uganda, Africa

    The objective of the Ugandan government is to make Uganda an upper - middle income country within thirty years. Economic diversification is a key component of that strategy. The country economic memorandum (CEM) report discusses how the emergence of oil and mineral production can contribute to Uganda’s effort to promote economic diversification as a means to achieve sustainable and shared growth.

  3. Library Resource

    Systematic Country Diagnostic

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    June, 2016
    Mozambique, Africa

    This Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) is designed to assess the key constraints and opportunities facing Mozambique as it strives to sustain robust growth and macroeconomic stability while accelerating poverty reduction and promoting greater economic inclusiveness. The SCD is organized into six chapters. Chapter two describes the evolution of poverty and inequality, explores their regional and demographic dimensions, and identifies strategies for accelerating poverty reduction.

  4. Library Resource
    October, 2015
    Uganda

    The World Bank’s assistance strategies
    showed strong client orientation and were aligned with
    Uganda’s poverty reduction strategy. The programs were
    substantially effective in decentralization, public sector
    reform, growth and economic transformation, education, and
    water and sanitation. However, more could have been done to
    help counter the perception of increasing corruption,
    improve power supply, reduce transport costs, enhance

  5. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Uganda

    This Agriculture Public Expenditure
    Review (AgPER) comprehensively reviews public expenditures
    on agriculture in Uganda and analyzes their efficiency and
    effectiveness. Its genesis lies in Agriculture Sector
    Working Group (A-SWG) discussions, especially during the
    budget process, which raised concerns about the seemingly
    low budget allocations to the sector and the failure to
    align limited resources with recognized priorities in the

  6. Library Resource
    February, 2013
    Uganda

    A Country Environmental Analysis (CEA)
    is a World Bank analytical tool used to integrate
    environmental issues into development assistance strategies,
    programs, and projects. To that end, the CEA synthesizes
    environmental issues, highlights the environmental and
    economic implications of development policies, and evaluates
    the country's environmental management capacity. It is
    composed of three analytical building blocks: the

  7. Library Resource
    November, 2015
    Mauritius

    Mauritius has been a success story since
    independence, moving from low income to uppermiddle-income
    status. Close public-private partnerships facilitated
    private sector-led growth in astable macroeconomic and
    institutional environment. The government implemented an
    activeindustrial policy to support private sector
    competitiveness while exploiting global trade nichescreated
    by preferential access arrangements. As a result, savings

  8. Library Resource
    December, 2015
    Uganda

    After a destructive civil war and
    extreme political instability, Uganda began its
    reconstruction process in 1987. Within the enabling
    environment of macroeconomic stability, most of the progress
    on the twin goals was attributable to higher agricultural
    incomes. Poverty reduction among households primarily
    engaged in agriculture accounted for 53 percent of the
    reduction in poverty from 2006 to 2010 and 77 percent of the

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