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    Case Studies for Selected River Basins in Northwest Vietnam

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    February, 2014
    Vietnam, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    Increasing energy demands and concerns about global warming call for an increase in energy generation from renewable sources. Small hydropower plants represent a significant contribution to meet this demand. But the optimal use of this resource in a sustainable manner still remains a challenge. A cascade of small dams may have detrimental impacts on the environment and water use without implementation of proper mitigation measures and planning.

  2. Library Resource

    Recovery and Reconstruction since 2009

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    August, 2014
    Senegal, Africa

    Senegal is located in the Sahel region of West Africa. Between 1970 and 2000, the country suffered prolonged droughts that contributed to rural exodus. Communities in these peri-urban areas, already among the poorest in the country, are the most vulnerable to episodes of heavy rainfall and subsequent flooding. The impact of floods in this situation of uncontrolled urban growth is exacerbated by the lack of a functional storm water drainage system, ineffective land-use policies and non-compliance with the urban planning and development master plan.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    March, 2014
    India, Southern Asia

    Industrial parks are as popular as they are controversial, in India and globally. At their best they align infrastructure provision and agglomeration economies to jolt industrial growth. More often, they generate negative spill-overs, provide handouts, sit empty, or simply do not get built. This paper disaggregates how parks are built and how they fail. It contextualizes parks in India, followed by a thick case study of an innovative scheme that appears to buck the trend.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    May, 2014
    India, Southern Asia

    In the past 50 years, Indian agriculture has undergone a major transformation, from dependence on food aid to becoming a consistent net food exporter. The gradual reforms in the agricultural sector (following the broader macro-reforms of the early 1990s) spurred some unprecedented innovations and changes in the food sector driven by private investment. These impressive achievements must now be viewed in light of the policy and investment imperatives that lie ahead.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2014
    Eastern Asia, Oceania

    Urbanization deserves urgent attention from policy makers, academics, entrepreneurs, and social reformers of all stripes. Nothing else will create as many opportunities for social and economic progress. The urbanization project began roughly 1,000 years after the transition from the Pleistocene to the milder and more stable Holocene interglacial. In 2010, the urban population in developing countries stood at 2.5 billion. The developing world can accommodate the urban population growth and declining urban density in many ways.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2014

    The accumulation of decent housing matters both because of the difference it makes to living standards and because of its centrality to economic development. The consequences for living standards are far-reaching. In addition to directly conferring utility, decent housing improves health and enables children to do homework. It frees up women's time and enables them to participate in the labor market. More subtly, a home and its environs affect identity and self-respect.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2014
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    This paper focuses on three interrelated questions on urbanization and the geography of development. First, although we herald cities with their industrial bases as "engines of growth," does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While such relationships appear in the data, the process is not straightforward. Among developing countries, changes in income or industrialization correlate only weakly with changes in urbanization. This suggests that policy and institutional factors may also influence the urbanization process.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    August, 2014

    Extension services are a keystone of information diffusion in agriculture. This paper exploits a large randomized controlled trial to track diffusion of a new technique in the classic Training and Visit (T&V) extension model, relative to a more direct training model. In both control and treatment communities, contact farmers (CFs) serve as points-of-contacts between agents and other farmers. The intervention (Treatment) aims to address two pitfalls of the T&V model: i) infrequent extension agent visits, and ii) poor quality information.

  9. Library Resource
    April, 2014

    The elderly in Russia have often been
    among those least able to cope with all the changes that
    have taken place during the transition. Unlike the situation
    prior to reform-when pensions were stable-they now face
    considerable uncertainty. If they have not been in poverty,
    many have been close to it. While the elderly have
    experienced difficulties, they have also been the
    beneficiaries of a very large transfer of wealth. In Russia,

  10. Library Resource
    August, 2014

    The author identifies conditions under
    which the urban sector's share of the poor population
    in a developing country will be a strictly increasing and
    strictly convex function of its share of the total
    population. Cross-sectional data afor 39 countries and
    time-series data for for India are consistent with the
    expected theoretical relationship. The empirical results
    imply that the poor urbanize faster than the population as a

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