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  1. Library Resource
    August, 2015
    Africa, Western Africa

    Land and property rights, migration, and
    citizenship are complex issues that cut across all social,
    economic, and political spheres of West Africa. This paper
    provides an overarching scoping of the most pressing
    contemporary issues related to land, migration, and
    citizenship, including how they intersect in various
    contexts and locations in West Africa. The way issues are
    analytically framed captures structural challenges and sets

  2. Library Resource
    September, 2015
    Brazil

    This report on the assessment of land
    governance in Brazil summarizes and discusses the results of
    a series of standardized self-assessments of the land
    governance situation in Brazil, conducted entirely by
    Brazilian speakers. Therefore, these findings represent the
    perception of local experts based on their experience of
    news and data available. The main aim of this report are
    federal and state authorities directly involved in land

  3. 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

  4. Library Resource
    November, 2015

    The city of Kampala has undergone a
    period of rapid urbanization that has contributed to the
    degradation of the city’s natural environment. The urban
    environmental profile for Kampala has been prepared as the
    first component of the assignment promoting green urban
    development in Africa: enhancing the relationship between
    urbanization, environmental assets, and ecosystem services,
    a project being conducted under the leadership of the World

  5. Library Resource
    November, 2015

    A rainforest can be modeled as a dynamic
    asset subject to various risks, including risk of fire. Any
    small part of the forest can be in one of two states: either
    untouched by forest fire, or already damaged by fire, in
    which case there is both a local forest loss and increased
    dryness over a broader area. In this paper, two Bellman
    equations are constructed, one for unharmed forest and a
    second for already burnt forest. The analysis solves the two

  6. Library Resource
    January, 2015

    Himachal Pradesh has the reputation of
    being stable, inclusive, cohesive and well-governed and it
    stands apart in many respects from its neighbors in northern
    India. It has additionally, achieved remarkable growth,
    especially in the last two decades, which has been
    accompanied by very good human development outcomes. Despite
    being a predominantly rural society, educational attainment
    in Himachal Pradesh for instance, is among the best in the

  7. Library Resource
    November, 2015

    This Country Partnership Framework (CPF)
    presents the World Bank Group (WBG) program for Côte
    d’Ivoire (CIV) during the period FY16-FY19. The CPF comes at
    an opportune moment to accelerate and scale up the WBG
    engagement. The program will take advantage of CIV’s current
    climate of renewed stability to modernize the economy and
    eliminate long-standing disparities aggravated by a decade
    of multifaceted crisis, during which the World Bank Group

  8. Library Resource
    December, 2015
    Tanzania

    Climate change is a core development
    challenge in Tanzania, and the potential costs of inaction
    are significant. Current climate variability (including
    extreme events such as droughts and floods), already leads
    to major economic costs in mainland Tanzania and in
    Zanzibar. Individual annual events have economic costs in
    excess of 1 percent of GDP, and occur regularly, reducing
    long-term growth and affecting millions of people and

  9. Library Resource
    July, 2015

    This paper informs the national and
    international policy discussions related to the adoption of
    the United Nations Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and
    Forest Degradation Programme. Effective program instruments
    must carefully consider incentives, opportunity costs, and
    community interactions. A choice experiment survey was
    applied to rural Ethiopian communities to understand
    respondents’ preferences toward the institutional structure

  10. Library Resource
    September, 2015

    This report seeks to understand the
    successes, challenges and opportunities of Cambodia’s
    agricultural transformation over the past decade to derive
    lessons and insights on how to maintain future agricultural
    growth, and particularly on the government’s role in
    facilitating it. It is prepared per the request of the
    Supreme National Economic Council and the Ministry of
    Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries and is based on the

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