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  1. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    El Salvador

    This study assesses the alignment of
    land use, land tenure, and land market outcomes in El
    Salvador with public policy aspirations in recent decades
    for efficient, inclusive, and environmentally sustainable
    development in both urban and rural spaces. In doing so the
    study indirectly gauges the effectiveness of land sector
    institutions in facilitating such developmental outcomes in
    agricultural production, urbanization, and forest

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Brazil

    The overarching theme of the book is
    development in a land of contrasts. There have been large
    economic, social, and political changes. The mass of society
    is far more expressive and politically involved today. In
    1945, the country had 7.4 million voters, about 11 percent
    of the population. Today it has 120 million voters, or 67
    percent of the population. The economy has been modernized,
    the capitalist ethos spread across regions, mass

  5. Library Resource
    September, 2013

    Empirical evidence indicates that in
    many developing regions, the extreme poor in more marginal
    land areas form a "residual" pool of rural labor.
    Structural transformation in such developing economies
    depends crucially on labor and land use decisions of these
    most-vulnerable populations located on abundant but marginal
    agricultural land. Although the modern sector may be the
    source of dynamic growth through learning-by-doing and

  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
    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

  8. Library Resource
    December, 2015
    Bolivia

    Bolivia’s distinct characteristics and
    aspirations are a key for understanding its development
    trajectory. Bolivia is one of the countries with the highest
    share of indigenous population, representing a tapestry of
    different groups with different historical, cultural and
    economic features, with a significant influence in policy
    decision making. The country is landlocked and one of the
    most sparsely populated in the world. As a result, long

  9. Library Resource
    February, 2015
    Senegal

    Gross domestic product (GDP) growth was
    a disappointing 3.5 percent in 2013. It remained largely
    unchanged compared to 2012, reflecting a decline in cereal
    production and stagnation in the industrial sector. Services
    continue to drive the economy. The economic outlook for 2014
    was more positive, but poor rainfall and the Ebola outbreak
    have forced downward revisions in GDP growth projections,
    now expected to reach 4.5 percent. The plan Senegal emergent

  10. Library Resource
    November, 2014
    Brazil, Global

    This country program evaluation (CPE)
    evaluates World Bank Group (International Bank for
    Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), or the Bank,
    International Finance Corporation (IFC), and Multilateral
    Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) operations in Brazil from
    FY2004 through FY2011. It seeks to answer two questions: to
    what extent was the Bank Group program relevant to
    Brazil's development needs?, and how effective were

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