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  1. Library Resource
    January, 2013
    Sub-Saharan Africa

    Based on worldwide experience and encouraging evidence from country pilots in African countries such as Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania,and Uganda, this new report suggests a series of ten steps that may help to revolutionise agricultural production and eradicate poverty in Africa. These steps include improving tenure security over individual and communal lands, increasing land access and tenure for poor and vulnerable families, resolving land disputes, managing better public land, and increasing efficiency and transparency in land administration services. 

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2013
    Sub-Saharan Africa

    Few development challenges in Africa are as pressing and controversial as land ownership and its persistent gap between rich and poor communities. With a profound demographic shift in Africa from rural areas to the cities where half of all Africans will live by 2050, these gaps will become steadily more pronounced as governments and communities rise to the challenge of growing enough aff ordable nutritious food for all families to thrive on the continent. In some countries in the region, these gaps—allied as they are with high

  3. Library Resource
    June, 2013
    Uganda

    While there is a large, though
    inconclusive, literature on the impact of land titles in
    Africa, little attention has been devoted to the study of
    land conflict, despite evidence on increasing incidence of
    such conflicts. The authors use data from Uganda to explore
    who is affected by land conflicts, whether recent legal
    changes have helped to reduce their incidence, and to assess
    their impact on productivity. Results indicate that

  4. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    Madagascar

    This report examines the question of
    land titling in Madagascar, a country where modern and
    informal tenure systems coexist and overlap to a significant
    extent. The report reviews three main arguments for land
    titling and their relevance for Madagascar in order to
    provide policy implications and evaluations. The first is
    that land titling serves as protection against
    expropriation. Second, titles may also facilitate land

  5. Library Resource
    September, 2013
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    The population of Sub-Saharan Africa
    stood at 854 million in 2010. Annual population growth
    averaged 2.5 percent, with a relatively high sustained
    fertility rate, fostered by the fact that two-thirds of the
    population is under 25. The region has the highest
    proportion of poor people in the world, with 47.5 percent of
    its population living on less than $1.25 a day, as measured
    in terms of purchasing power parity in 2008. It is also the

  6. Library Resource
    September, 2013
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    In the past dozen years, a literature
    has developed arguing that urbanization has unfolded
    differently in post-independence Sub-Saharan Africa than in
    the rest of the developing world, with implications for
    African economic growth overall. While African countries are
    more urbanized than other countries at comparable levels of
    income, it is well-recognized that total and sector gross
    domestic product data are of very low quality, especially in

  7. Library Resource
    October, 2013
    Burkina Faso

    Burkina Faso's Poverty Reduction
    Strategies (PRS) of the 2000s, which were implemented as
    annually rolled-over Priority Action Programs, focused on
    four pillars: a) accelerating broad based growth; b)
    expanding access to social services for the poor; c)
    increasing employment and income-generating activities for
    the poor; and d) promoting good governance. Increased public
    expenditure and targeted social service provision also led

  8. Library Resource
    January, 2013
    Liberia, Global

    This report evaluates the outcomes of
    World Bank Group support to Liberia from its post-war
    reengagement in 2003 through 2011. The country has moved
    from total disarray to a solid foundation for inclusive
    development. Although development has not moved forward as
    quickly as hoped, substantial progress has been made. Public
    finance and key institutions have been rebuilt; crucial
    transport facilities have been restored; and hospitals,

  9. Library Resource
    February, 2013
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    The main purpose of this paper is to
    explain the patterns of access to water supply and
    sanitation facilities in urban areas in Sub-Saharan Africa
    since the late 90's, and its relation with the
    performance of service providers in the case of improved
    water supply. It also seeks to explore the institutional
    context of the water supply and sanitation sectors. The
    paper concludes that services providers in Sub-Saharan

  10. Library Resource
    February, 2013
    Liberia

    Poor governance and nearly fifteen years
    of brutal conflict have made Liberia one of the poorest
    countries in the world. An important objective for the
    democratically elected government of post-conflict Liberia
    is to reduce poverty. As part of its long-term vision plan,
    the Government is preparing a second Poverty Reduction
    Strategy (PRS) to set out its medium-term approach to
    poverty reduction. The current climate of peace and

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