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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2018
    Global, Laos

    WEBSITE INTRODUCTION: This report presents a synthesis of the main findings from case studies carried out in six countries in Africa (Ghana, Sierra Leone, United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia) and Asia (Laos and Philippines). The findings were disseminated and discussed in multistakeholder initiatives at regional and country level. The report illustrates how poor rural women and men are affected differently by agricultural investments, and demonstrates that they may not benefit equally from emerging opportunities.

  2. Library Resource
    Nourishing millions: Stories of change in nutrition cover image
    Peer-reviewed publication
    Reports & Research
    June, 2016
    Global, Ethiopia, Brazil, Peru, Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, India, Nepal

    Malnutrition costs the world trillions of dollars, but global commitment to improving people’s nutrition is on the rise, and so is our knowledge of how to do so. Over the past 50 years, understanding of nutrition has evolved beyond a narrow focus on hunger and famine. We now know that good nutrition depends not only on people’s access to a wide variety of foods, but also on the care they receive and the environment they live in. A number of countries and programs have exploited this new understanding to make enormous strides in nutrition.

  3. Library Resource
    September, 2014
    Indonesia, Global

    This case study is one of six
    evaluations of the implementation of the World Bank's
    1991 Forest Strategy. This and the other cases (Brazil,
    Cameroon, China, Costa Rica, and India) complement a review
    of the entire set of lending and nonlending activities of
    the World Bank Group and the Global Environment Facility. A
    review of World Bank assistance to Indonesia in the forest
    sector since 1991 faces two challenges. The first is

  4. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Philippines, Global

    The report highlights how much recent
    achievements, in terms of growth, and poverty reduction, owe
    to the progress the country has made on a broad front of
    policy issues, such as openness to trade, investment, and
    competition, as well as education, and financial regulation.
    Nonetheless, progress has been uneven in several fronts,
    such as the need to intensify trade liberalization, and
    domestic competition; to strengthen governance across

  5. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    Vietnam, Global

    Trade policies can promote aggregate
    efficiency, but the ensuing structural adjustments generally
    create both winners and losers. From an incomes perspective,
    trade liberalization can raise gross domestic product per
    capita, but rates of emergence from poverty depend on
    individual household characteristics of economic
    participation and asset holding. To fully realize the growth
    potential of trade, while limiting the risk of rising

  6. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Asia, South-Eastern Asia, Global

    East Asia has recovered from the
    economic and financial crisis. Largely thanks to China, the
    region's output, exports and employment have mostly
    returned to the levels before the crisis. Leading the global
    economy, real gross domestic product (GDP) growth in
    developing East Asia is poised to rise to 8.7 percent in
    2010 after slowing from 8.5 percent in 2008 to 7.0 percent
    in 2009. This report also identifies two common regional

  7. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global, Philippines

    As the financial crisis has spread
    through the world, the lack of real-time data has made it
    difficult to track its impact in developing countries. This
    paper uses a micro-simulation approach to assess the poverty
    and distributional effects of the crisis in the Philippines.
    The authors find increases in both the level and the depth
    of aggregate poverty. Income shocks are relatively large in
    the middle part of the income distribution. They also find

  8. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    Cambodia, Global

    This paper discusses the progress made
    by Cambodia from the early 90s to 2007, in reduction of
    poverty incidence. Reduced poverty occurred in both urban
    and rural areas, and was experienced by rich and poor, and
    by men and women. Households, including those in the poorest
    groups, have improved their housing quality, increased
    ownership of motorbikes, televisions, and mobile phones, and
    are better able to access and afford schools and healthcare.

  9. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Global, Indonesia

    Did the rise in food prices have a long-term impact on agricultural production? Using household-level panel data from seven provinces of Indonesia, this paper finds that the price shock created a forward-looking incentive to invest, which can dynamically enhance productivity in agriculture. It also finds that the impact of the price shock on investment behavior differs by initial wealth. In response to price increases, wealthy farmers invested more in productive assets, while poor farmers increased their financial savings as well as consumption.

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    Global, Vietnam

    This report directly provide
    recommendations for improvement of the quality of the
    regional master socio-econsomic development plan and
    national laud use plans for Vietnam, to the year 2020. It
    provides analysis and assessment of the
    reviewed-adjusted-ammended socio-economic development plan
    for the Mekong Delta, which is aimed at improvement of the
    quality and feasibility of regional socio-economic

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