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  1. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Colombia

    This document presents the recently
    elected Colombian administration with a set of policy notes
    meant to enrich the debate around critical issues affecting
    the country's development. These notes build mostly
    upon existing research and represent the Bank's
    independent view on topics which are either at the crux of
    ongoing policy discussions or merit a more prominent place
    in this dialogue. This window of opportunity provides a very

  2. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Colombia

    This country note briefly summarizes
    information relevant to both climate change and agriculture
    in Colombia, with focus on policy developments (including
    action plans and programs) and institutional make-up. Like
    most countries in Latin America, Colombia has submitted one
    national communication to the United Nations Framework
    Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with a second one
    under preparation. Agriculture (including land use change

  3. Library Resource
    November, 2015
    Colombia

    Colombia has made impressive strides in
    reducing poverty and promoting shared prosperity during the
    last decade. Extreme poverty fell from 17.7 percent in 2002
    to 8.1 percent in 2014, while total poverty (including
    moderate poverty) fell from 49.7 percent in 2002 to 29.5
    percent in 2014. The decline implies that 6.2 million people
    left poverty in the period. The multidimensional poverty
    rate, which takes into account education, health, labor,

  4. Library Resource
    February, 2016
    Colombia

    The purpose of this note is to provide
    policy recommendations to improve access to credit of rural
    populations and small agricultural producers under
    financially sustainable schemes. Although the agricultural
    sector remains an important source of employment,
    agricultural credit is a small fraction of commercial credit
    in Colombia. The share of agricultural credit in Colombia is
    below levels observed in other countries in the region.

  5. Library Resource
    January, 2015
    Colombia

    The growing use of Payments for
    Environmental Services (PES) for conservation has fostered a
    debate on its effectiveness, but the few efforts to date to
    assess the impact of PES programs have been hampered by lack
    of data, leading to very divergent results. This paper uses
    data from a PES mechanism implemented in Quindío, Colombia,
    to examine the impact of PES on land use change. Alone among
    all early PES initiatives, the Silvopastoral Project

  6. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    Colombia

    The effectiveness of conservation
    interventions such as Payments for Environmental Services
    (PES) is often evaluated, if it is evaluated at all, only at
    the completion of the intervention. Since gains achieved by
    the intervention may be lost after it ends, even apparently
    successful interventions may not result in long-term
    conservation benefits, a problem known as that of
    permanence. This paper uses a unique dataset to examine the

  7. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Colombia

    Unequal land distribution and the
    negative social and economic implications resulting from
    such polarization in Colombia have long been of concern to
    policymakers. A 1950 World Bank mission identified unequal
    land distribution as a key impediment to economic and social
    development in the country. Since then, a wide range of
    policies has been adopted to deal with this issue and its
    consequences. Numerous studies show that the success of

  8. Library Resource
    September, 2013
    Colombia

    Based on a large survey to compare the
    effectiveness of land markets and land reform in Colombia,
    the authors find that rental and sales markets were more
    effective in transferring land to poor but productive
    producers than was administrative land reform. The fact that
    land transactions were all of a short-term nature and that
    little land was transferred from very large to small land
    owners or the landless suggests that there may be scope for

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