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  1. Library Resource
    Manuals & Guidelines
    March, 2017
    Global

    This note is part of an Action Notes series and provides guidance for governments and companies on how to ensure that the impact of agricultural investments on water resources is effectively measured, monitored, and regulated.

  2. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Philippines

    The theme of the 2011 Philippines
    development report is 'generating inclusive growth,
    uplifting the poor and vulnerable'. This theme is
    follows from the priorities set in President Aquino's
    Social Contract and the emerging 2011-2016 Philippines
    Development Plan (PDP). The PDP details the vision of
    inclusive growth and poverty reduction that underlies the
    social contract (chapter one). Accordingly, the PDP focuses

  3. Library Resource
    June, 2014
    Africa

    This paper documents a significant
    impact of climate variation on urbanization in Sub-Saharan
    Africa, primarily in more arid countries. By lowering farm
    incomes, reduced moisture availability encourages migration
    to nearby cities, while wetter conditions slow migration.
    The paper also provides evidence for rural-urban income
    links. In countries with a larger industrial base, reduced
    moisture shrinks the agricultural sector and raises total

  4. Library Resource
    July, 2014
    Eswatini

    This history illustrates a number of
    themes encountered in Swaziland that faces developing
    countries and their external partners in Africa and beyond.
    Firstly, the history relates the experience of a small and
    comparatively insular country in addressing complex
    challenges deriving from rapid urbanization and, as a
    result, the growing need to adapt governance systems and
    structures. A second key issue is the challenge that small

  5. Library Resource
    May, 2014

    This paper analyzes the available
    literature about the effects of structural adjustment
    programs (SAPs) on the environment and the convincing
    evidence for their success or failure. The studies covered
    refer to the SAPs by the World Bank as well as to general
    government programs that have similar policy implications.
    SAPs are designed to reform economies to become more
    liberalized and export-oriented while reducing the role of

  6. Library Resource
    public private partnership projects
    Manuals & Guidelines
    May, 2015
    Global

    This framework provides guidance on policy and practice in public-private partnerships and on the mechanics of disclosure by practitioners within governments and the private sector, to help develop programmes for the systematic, proactive pre- and post- procurement disclosure of information.

  7. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Egypt

    This document builds upon several recent
    studies and reports carried out in the 2006-2007 period. The
    first note, entitled analysis of housing supply mechanisms
    (World Bank), analyzes the situation of housing supply in
    urban areas in Egypt, including the study of existing formal
    and informal mechanisms for the delivery of urban housing,
    the institutions responsible for supply and regulation, the
    characteristics of the formal and informal stock, and the

  8. Library Resource
    April, 2015

    This toolkit serves as a guide to help
    project leaders in working with client governments to
    attract concrete agribusiness investments that create jobs,
    reduce poverty, and develop value chains in an
    environmentally and socially sustainable way. However, the
    toolkit can be used by anyone working to attract sustainable
    private investment to a developing a country s agribusiness
    sector. These may be public officials, development

  9. Library Resource
    local procurement west africa
    Manuals & Guidelines
    February, 2015
    Western Africa

    This document provides information, guidance and tools to support decision-making, planning and implementation of mining local procurement, in particular at a country level. It can be used by individual role players as well as form the basis of consultative processes. The guide can also support regional harmonization relating to mining local procurement. Although based on West Africa, it will be a useful resource in other regions.

  10. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Asia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam

    This study reviews the available
    quantitative and qualitative information on urban poverty
    issues and trends in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) Region,
    with particular focus on Indonesia, the Philippines, and
    Vietnam. The review is a desk study-which is limited to
    material accessible to the Bank in Washington and draws
    mainly on existing field work and other published and
    unpublished papers. The empirical analysis focuses on the

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