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Admission is Free Only if Your Dad is Rich! Distributional Effects of Corruption in Schools in Developing Countries

February, 2014
Land & Corruption
agriculture
corruption
farmers
land ownership
rural areas
rural development
In the standard model of corruption, the
rich are more likely to pay bribes for their children's
education, reflecting higher ability to pay. This prediction
is, however, driven by the assumption that the probability
of punishment for bribe-taking is invariant across
households. In many developing countries lacking in rule of
law, this assumption is untenable, because the enforcement
of law is not impersonal or unbiased and the poor have
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Breaking the Cycle : A Strategy for Conflict-Sensitive Rural Growth in Burundi

May, 2012
Burundi
Land & Corruption
agriculture
corruption
expropriation
farmers
food security
investment funds
land degradation
The study on the sources of rural growth
in Burundi results from a meticulous work carried out by
eminent experts of the World Bank in response to a request
of the Government of Burundi. It describes the global
environment, which explains poverty aggravation and builds
proposals to overcome most binding constraints to growth in
Burundi. This study is an important contribution in the
fight against poverty, as it identifies ways to resume
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Does the Village Fund Matter in Thailand?

March, 2012
Thailand
Land & Corruption
agriculture
corruption
farmers
rural areas
urban areas
This paper evaluates the impact of the
Thailand Village and Urban Revolving Fund on household
expenditure, income, and assets. The revolving fund was
launched in 2001 when the Government of Thailand promised to
provide a million baht (about $22,500) to every village and
urban community in Thailand as working capital for
locally-run rotating credit associations. The money about
$2 billion in total was quickly disbursed to locally-run
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East Java Growth Diagnostic

Identifying the Constraints to Inclusive Growth in Indonesia's Second-Largest Province

Reports & Research
Training Resources & Tools
February, 2011
Indonesia, Eastern Asia, Oceania
Land & Corruption
agriculture
corruption
farmers
land registration
property rights
rural areas
urban areas
urbanization
East Java is the second largest contributor to Indonesia's economy with a growth rate similar to national level and other major provinces in Java. Nevertheless, for a province that is expected to be a major economic center in the country, there has been very little change in the region's economic structure in the past 10 years. Since 1995, the share of industry and agriculture in the economy is almost unchanged. Furthermore, the growth in both of these two sectors has been low, despite the fact that industry was once the main driver of the East Java economy.
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Fostering Community-Driven Development : What Role for the State?

August, 2014
Land & Corruption
land reform
agriculture
corruption
farmers
rural areas
rural development
States can do much to tap
community-level energies, and resources for development, if
they seek to interact more synergistically with local
communities. The broader spin-off is creating a
developmental society, and polity. Using case studies from
Asia and Latin America, the authors show how: 1) State
efforts to bring about land reform, tenancy reform, and
expanding non-crop sources of income, can broaden the
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Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook

Reports & Research
December, 2009
Land & Corruption
agriculture
capacity development
corruption
decentralization
farmers
fisheries
land ownership
land rights
natural resources management
property rights
rural development
Three out of every four poor people in developing countries live in rural areas, and most of them depend directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihoods. In many parts of the world, women are the main farmers or producers, but their roles remain largely unrecognized. The 2008 World development report: agriculture for development highlights the vital role of agriculture in sustainable development and its importance in achieving the millennium development goal of halving by 2015 the share of people suffering from extreme poverty and hunger.
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Gender-Informing Aid for Trade : Entry Points and Initial Lessons Learned from the World Bank

August, 2012
Global
Land & Corruption
agriculture
corruption
farmers
land ownership
The effects of policy interventions on
women are of increasing concern to policy makers in all
fields, and trade is no exception. This note reviews recent
World Bank projects and studies that 'gender
inform' trade-related interventions, and it uses the
Bank's experience to promote gender-equal opportunities
by highlighting entry points at which trade projects,
studies, and policies can effectively address gender issues.
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Guinea-Bissau Country Economic Memorandum : Terra Ranca! A Fresh Start

March, 2015
Guinea, Guinea-Bissau
Land & Corruption
agriculture
capacity development
corruption
deforestation
farmers
fisheries
forestry
sustainable development
After decades of turmoil and
instability, a period of calm and progress evolved in
Guinea-Bissau in 2009. A military coup in April 2012
interrupted it. A fresh start is needed to alter the
dynamics that kept Guinea-Bissau poor. In 2013, Gross
National Income per capita was US$590. Average economic
growth barely kept pace with population growth. In 2010,
poverty at the national poverty line of US$2 a day was 70
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Impact of Property Rights Reform to Support China’s Rural-Urban Integration

Household-Level Evidence from the Chengdu National Experiment

Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2015
China, Eastern Asia, Oceania
Land & Corruption
property rights
corruption
development
land markets
land rights
land ownership
farmers
urban areas
agriculture
property
land registration
transaction costs
decentralization
As part of a national experiment in 2008, Chengdu prefecture implemented ambitious property rights reforms, including complete registration of all land together with measures to ease transferability and eliminate migration restrictions. A triple difference approach using the Statistics Bureau’s regular household panel suggests that the reforms increased consumption and income, especially for less wealthy and less educated households, with estimated benefits well above the cost of implementation.
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Jamaica : Fiscal Consolidation for Growth and Poverty Reduction, A Public Expenditure Review

June, 2012
Jamaica
Land & Corruption
agriculture
corruption
farmers
fisheries
rural areas
rural development
urban areas
This Public Expenditure Review (PER) builds on the commitments of the 2003 Country Economic Memorandum (CEM), and 2002 Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) Progress Report, being its primary objective to assess strengths and weaknesses in key areas of public expenditure, and identify policy options for fiscal sustainability. Jamaica's high debt aggravates debt sustainability and efforts to improve growth.