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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    December, 2009
    Sudan, Africa

    This report on Sudan's Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) provides a baseline assessment of challenges to productivity, diversification and inclusion. Chapter 1 describes some of the questions underlying the three issues of competitiveness, diversification and broad-based growth. Chapter 2 analyzes firm performance and competitiveness. Chapter 3 discusses markets and trust. Chapter 4 describes the role of the financial sector. Chapter 5 analyses the informal sector. Chapter 6 discusses the conflict-affected private sector development.

  2. Library Resource

    Sudan

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2012
    Sudan, Africa

    Doing business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting 10 areas in the life cycle of a business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Journal Articles & Books
    November, 2016
    Algeria, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Mauritania, Mali, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Cameroon, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Senegal, Chad, Niger, Sudan, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa

    Prospects for Livestock-Based Livelihoods in Africa’s Drylands examines the challenges and opportunities facing the livestock sector and the people who depend on livestock in the dryland regions of Sub-Saharan Africa.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Journal Articles & Books
    August, 2016
    Algeria, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Mauritania, Mali, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Cameroon, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Senegal, Chad, Niger, Sudan, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa

    Dryland regions in Sub-Saharan Africa are home to one-half of the region’s population and three-quarters of its poor. Poor both in natural resources and in assets and income, the inhabitants of drylands are highly vulnerable to droughts and other shocks. Despite a long history of interventions by governments, development agencies, and civil society organizations, there have been no sustained large-scale successes toward improving the resilience of drylands dwellers.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Journal Articles & Books
    August, 2016
    Algeria, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Mauritania, Mali, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Cameroon, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Senegal, Chad, Niger, Sudan, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa

    More than 200 million people living in dryland regions of Sub-Saharan Africa make their living from agriculture. Most are exposed to weather shocks, especially drought, that can decimate their incomes, destroy their assets, and plunge them into a poverty trap from which it is difficult to emerge. Their lack of resilience in the face of these shocks can be attributed in large part to the poor performance of agriculture on which their livelihood depends. Opportunities exist to improve the fortunes of farming households in the drylands.

  6. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Sudan

    The report assesses the main factors
    which constrain the sustainable development of the Gezira
    Scheme (GS), to develop medium, to long term plans,
    including short-term actions, to address those constrains.
    The GS, is described as a large and complex enterprise,
    because although it is one the world's largest
    irrigation systems, it has become one of the least
    efficient, irrespective of the fact that it uses thirty five

  7. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Sudan

    This Country Economic Memorandum is the
    first economic report in a decade. It gives priority to
    updating knowledge about the evolution of social and
    economic developments during the 1990s. It reviewareas of
    progress in macroeconomic reforms and the lack of success in
    governance and institutional reforms. Substantial reforms
    were undertaken in this period , but the civil war continued
    to have a serious negative impact on Sudan's people and

  8. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Sudan

    Sudan is in the 10th year of its longest
    and strongest growth episode since independence, benefiting
    from the advent of oil in 1999. This report proposes a
    growth strategy for Sudan that reduces its dependence on
    oil, while building an economic foundation for a
    diversified, inclusive and sustainable growth path.
    Specifically, Sudan's near term strategy should focus
    on: a) developing and maintaining the necessary enabling

  9. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Sudan

    This policy note was prepared in
    response to a request from the Government of Southern Sudan
    (GoSS) for World Bank assistance in developing legislative
    and institutional policies and strategies that will take
    advantage of the potential of the region's forest
    resources to contribute to poverty alleviation, food
    security, sustainable agriculture, economic growth, and to
    protection of forest-related environmental services such as

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Sudan

    This report proposes a growth strategy
    for Sudan that reduces its dependence on oil, while building
    an economic foundation for a diversified, inclusive and
    sustainable growth path. Specifically, Sudan's near
    term strategy should focus on: a) developing and maintaining
    the necessary enabling environment for growth, specifically
    macroeconomic stability and effective fiscal management
    (chapter one); b) implementing policies aimed at improving

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