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  1. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Lesotho

    Lesotho began a structural economic
    transformation in the early 1990s. The transformation has
    brought higher, more secure incomes to households while the
    government succeeded in dramatically improving access to
    services such as education, health, water, and
    transportation. Yet today, Lesotho faces a number of serious
    development challenges, including a high rate of chronic
    poverty, entrenched income inequality, and most troubling

  2. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Vanuatu

    Under the Vanuatu constitution, the
    'rules of custom shall form the basis of ownership and
    use of land.' Implementing this principle after decades
    of land alienation, however, has proved to be challenging.
    While the leasing arrangement was originally intended to
    restore investor confidence and maintain agricultural
    development in newly independent Vanuatu, it soon evolved
    into the method of acquiring new leases over previously

  3. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Pakistan

    Parts of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), the
    northeastern most administrative region of Pakistan, have
    been undergoing a dramatic transformation over the last
    three decades. Given the challenging environment, GB's
    development outcomes are impressive, built on the
    time-tempered resilience of the people of GB and facilitated
    by high levels of social capital. GB has also benefitted
    from the attentions of the national Government of Pakistan

  4. Library Resource
    December, 2015
    Sweden

    This report’s starting point is thus to
    acknowledge that despite Sweden’s many virtues, there are
    areas in which it can do better, and the task has been to
    identify those areas, focusing particularly on the quality
    of the investment climate and competitiveness. This has been
    done in two main ways. First, by looking at areas of the
    business environment captured by databases compiled in the
    World Bank Group’s Global Indicators Group—Doing Business,

  5. Library Resource
    August, 2015

    The overall goal of this report is to
    assist the World Bank Group (WBG) to achieve greater impact
    for women from its current activities in agribusiness in
    Papua New Guinea (PNG), and to provide clear recommendations
    on additional interventions aimed at improving outcomes for
    women. The report focuses on the supply chains for coffee,
    cocoa, and horticultural products (fresh produce), as there
    is a wealth of knowledge on these supply chains and on

  6. Library Resource
    May, 2015

    African governments and international
    development groups see boosting productivity on smallholder
    farms as key to reducing rural poverty and safeguarding the
    food security of farming and non-farming households.
    Prompting smallholder farmers to use more fertilizer has
    been a key tactic. Closing the productivity gap between male
    and female farmers has been another avenue toward achieving
    the same goal. The results in this paper suggest the two are

  7. Library Resource
    June, 2015

    Women comprise 50 percent of the
    agricultural labor force in Sub-Saharan Africa, but manage
    plots that are reportedly on average 20 to 30 percent less
    productive. As a source of income inequality and aggregate
    productivity loss, the country-specific magnitude and
    drivers of this gender gap are of great interest. Using
    national data from the Uganda National Panel Survey for
    2009/10 and 2010/11, the gap before controlling for

  8. Library Resource
    January, 2016

    Women and girls often risk being left
    behind in development, not being fully informed or involved
    in decision making about issues that can have a real impact
    on their lives. Sometimes, they are already disadvantaged by
    cultural and legal norms that affect their rights to
    resources. Working together to develop the Nile resource,
    the 10 countries involved in the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI)
    are making it ‘business as usual’ to ensure gender equality

  9. Library Resource
    July, 2015

    The contribution of women to labor in
    African agriculture is regularly quoted in the range of 60
    to 80 percent. Using individual-disaggregated, plot-level
    labor input data from nationally representative household
    surveys across six Sub-Saharan African countries, this study
    estimates the average female labor share in crop production
    at 40 percent. It is slightly above 50 percent in Malawi,
    Tanzania, and Uganda, and substantially lower in Nigeria (37

  10. Library Resource
    July, 2015

    Central place theory predicts that
    agglomeration can arise from external shocks. This paper
    investigates whether gold mining is a catalyst for
    proto-urbanization in rural Ghana. Using cross-sectional
    data, the analysis finds that locations within 10 kilometers
    from gold mines have more night light and proportionally
    higher employment in industry and services and in the wage
    sector. Non-farm employment decreases at 20–30 kilometers

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