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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2009

    Three out of every four poor people in developing countries live in rural areas, and most of them depend directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihoods. In many parts of the world, women are the main farmers or producers, but their roles remain largely unrecognized. The 2008 World development report: agriculture for development highlights the vital role of agriculture in sustainable development and its importance in achieving the millennium development goal of halving by 2015 the share of people suffering from extreme poverty and hunger.

  2. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Afghanistan

    Afghanistan has come a long way since
    emerging from major conflict in late 2001. Important
    political milestones mandated by the Bonn Agreement (two
    Loya Jirgas, a new Constitution, recently the Presidential
    election) have been achieved. The economy has recovered
    strongly, growing by nearly 50 percent cumulatively in the
    last two years (not including drugs). Some three million
    internally- and externally-displaced Afghans have returned

  3. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Bangladesh

    The major constraints to RNF growth,
    according to a large survey of rural entrepreneurs,'
    include (1) flood and natural disasters; (2) access to
    electricity; (3) road conditions, (4) access to finance and
    (5) transportation to markets. Bangladesh's
    vulnerability to frequent floods and other natural disasters
    severely hampers operations of more than a third of rural
    firms. The next most important constraint to RNF growth is

  4. Library Resource
    February, 2013
    Palestine

    The purpose of this Transport Sector
    Note (TSN) is to assist the Palestinian Authority (PA) in
    developing a strategy for the sector that can aid in
    addressing the immediate constraints and transport issues in
    support of the PA's effort to revive the national
    economy, improve mobility and reduce poverty. The TSN also
    aims to assist the responsible sector ministries prepare a
    coherent strategic framework and program for the sector.

  5. Library Resource
    May, 2012

    Inequalities and development:
    dysfunctions, traps, and transitions by Anthony J.
    Bebbington, Anis A. Dani, Arjan de Haan, and Michael Walton.
    Asset inequality and agricultural growth: how are patterns
    of asset inequality established and reproduced? By Rachel
    Sabates. Beneath the categories: power relations and
    inequalities in Uganda by Joy M. Moncrieffe. Inequalities
    within India's poorest regions: why do the same

  6. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    Poverty reduction on a large scale
    depends on empowering those who are most motivated to move
    out of poverty-poor people themselves. But if empowerment
    cannot be measured, it will not be taken seriously in
    development policy making and programming. Building on the
    "Empowerment and Poverty Reduction Sourcebook,"
    this volume outlines a conceptual framework that can be used
    to monitor and evaluate programs centered on empowerment

  7. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Burundi

    This Country Economic Memorandum (CEM)
    is the first for Burundi since the 1980s. It has been
    developed in collaboration with the government of Burundi.
    The CEM has been prepared in cooperation with the African
    development bank and the U.K. department for international
    development. Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the
    world, and has suffered from many years of civil conflict
    and its consequences. In the last years, peace has been

  8. Library Resource
    August, 2012

    This brief includes the following
    headings: increasing access to land by the rural poor in
    India; and KCP projects on service delivery for the poor.

  9. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Pakistan

    Pakistan's rebound from the global
    financial crisis has been slow and fragile, and unless it
    changes course swiftly, it could face the prospects of a
    second balance of payments crisis in less than five years.
    Its recovery from the 2008-09 global financial crisis has
    been the weakest in South Asia, featuring a unique
    double-dip growth pattern. With high fertility, Pakistan
    will double the size of its already young population by

  10. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2014
    Mozambique

    Agriculture and fisheries are the main pillars of Mozambique's economy, having contributed in the last few years to more than 25 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) and around 7 to 11 percentage points of the rate of economic growth. Agricultural development in Mozambique has been part of the government agenda because it is crucial to reducing poverty within rural zones.

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