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  1. Library Resource

    The Growth Challenge--Can Ugandan Cities Get to Work?

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

    This Fifth Edition of the Uganda Economic Update presents evidence that if the urbanization process is well managed, it has the potential to stimulate economic growth and to provide productive jobs for a greater proportion of Uganda’s young and rapidly expanding population. In many countries across the world, the growth of cities has stimulated the establishment and expansion of productive businesses by reducing the distance between suppliers and customers. The growth of cities has also facilitated provision of social services and infrastructure through economies of scale.

  2. Library Resource
    January, 2015
    Moldova

    This forest policy note (FPN) offers
    an outside view of the Moldovan forestry sector, provides
    some strategic guidance to help define sector goals, and
    identifies opportunities for consideration in the continued
    development of the sector and for the implementation of the
    Moldova and World Bank (WB) country partnership strategy
    (CPS). This study is based on a number of short visits to
    Moldova and on a number of background studies undertaken

  3. Library Resource
    July, 2015

    This paper provides new empirical
    insights on the joint distribution of consumption, income,
    and wealth in three of the poorest countries in the world —
    Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda — all located in Sub-Saharan
    Africa (SSA). The first finding is that while income
    inequality is similar to that of the United States (US),
    wealth inequality is barely one-third that of the US.
    Similarly, while the top of the income distribution (1 and

  4. Library Resource
    January, 2015

    This paper uses farm panel data from
    China to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine
    investments, and the demand for machine services. Recently,
    China's agriculture has experienced a large expansion
    of machine rentals and machine services provided by
    specialized agents, which has contributed to mechanization
    of agricultural production. The empirical results show that
    an increase in nonagricultural wage rates leads to expansion

  5. Library Resource
    April, 2015
    Uganda

    This Fifth Edition of the Uganda
    Economic Update presents evidence that if the urbanization
    process is well managed, it has the potential to stimulate
    economic growth and to provide productive jobs for a greater
    proportion of Uganda s young and rapidly expanding
    population. In many countries across the world, the growth
    of cities has stimulated the establishment and expansion of
    productive businesses by reducing the distance between

  6. Library Resource
    December, 2015
    Madagascar

    The major role tropical forests play in
    biodiversity and climate change has led the world to search
    for effective ways to slow down deforestation. Community
    forest management (CFM) is an example of the broader concept
    of community-based natural resources management (CBNRM). As
    part of the decentralization policy in many countries,
    mainly in Africa and Asia, CFM was expected to promote: (i)
    a more effective stewardship of the resources by involving

  7. Library Resource
    November, 2015
    Turkey

    The country’s forest areas occupy 21.7
    million ha (approximately 27.6 percent of its total surface
    area), and are inhabited by close to 10 percent of its total
    population. The forest sector generates a variety of timber
    and non-timber products and eco-services. The Turkish
    government has put great effort into reforestation and
    forest management, increasing the total area of forests. In
    their tenth national development plan (2014-2018), the

  8. Library Resource
    December, 2015
    Poland

    Poland’s economic growth over the last
    25 years has been spectacular. In that period, Poland has
    more than doubled its income per capita and became a
    European growth champion. It was the only EU country to
    avoid a recession in 2009. Its current GDP growth rate is
    strong. Poland seems to be on the brink of its new ‘golden
    age.’ Doing Business in Poland 2015 is the first subnational
    report of the Doing Business series in Poland. It measures

  9. Library Resource
    March, 2015

    The first paper of this section
    (Durand-Laserve) documents how increasing pressures on urban
    land and the 'commodification' of shelter and
    settlement has increased 'market evictions' of
    families holding intermediate tide to property, although
    international declarations and pressures have contributed to
    reducing 'forced evictions.' The second paper
    (Mooya and Cloete) uses the tools of the New Institutional

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