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  1. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Pakistan

    This report contends that the key to unleashing the North West Frontier Province's possibilities and to improving the lives of its citizens is strengthening the governance and policy environment in the province for both the private and the public sectors, and investing in the provinces' most valuable resource - its people. Reforms and efforts in the past few years have already started to translate into higher growth, improved incomes, and better living conditions for the citizens of the NWFP.

  2. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Vietnam

    Vietnam has experienced three sets of
    direct impacts as a result of the coffee crisis: Some
    regional economic shocks, socio-economic impacts in the
    primary coffee-producing regions that have resulted in the
    partial dismantling of services like health-care and
    education; and post-crisis changes in the business
    environment. This study of the Vietnamese coffee sector is
    divided into seven parts. Part 1 provides an overview of the

  3. Library Resource
    March, 2012

    Well-functioning groups enforce social
    norms that restrain opportunism, but the social structure of
    a society may encourage or inhibit norm enforcement. This
    paper studies how the exogenous assignment to different
    positions in an extreme social hierarchy - the caste system
    - affects individuals' willingness to punish violations
    of a cooperation norm. Although the analysis controls for
    individual wealth, education, and political participation,

  4. Library Resource
    August, 2012

    The recent surge in food and fuel prices
    has prompted countries with high dependence on food imports
    to try and lock in future food supplies through direct
    investment in agricultural production in other countries.
    The price surges also led to a wave of proposals to invest
    in biofuels investments in agricultural land. While such
    investment can provide large benefits, it also carries
    considerable risks both to investors and citizens in the

  5. Library Resource
    February, 2013

    This policy note, Environmental
    Management for a Sustainable Economic Development Strategy
    for Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, investigates six environmental
    management topics which will affect the capacity of the
    province to develop the economy and need to be underpinned
    by strong environmental and natural resource management. The
    six topics cover: agriculture, forestry, fisheries, land and
    water, environmental law and regulations, and spatial

  6. Library Resource
    May, 2012

    The workshop brings diverse perspectives
    from outside the World Bank, providing a forum in which to
    exchange ideas and debate in the course of developing the
    World Development Report (WDR). Participants at the 2006
    Berlin Workshop gathered to discuss challenges and successes
    pertaining to agriculture and development. Agriculture is
    the major sector contributing to economic development in
    many poor countries. Three out of every four poor people in

  7. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    China

    Income inequality in China has risen
    rapidly in the past decades across regions, between rural
    and urban sectors, and within provinces. The dynamics of
    divergence across these sub-national areas have taken the
    form of a "race to the top" - meaning that all
    segments of the population, including the poor with low
    education in lagging inland rural areas, have experienced
    gains in average income. The largest gains have been

  8. Library Resource
    June, 2014
    Costa Rica

    This paper discusses the social impacts
    of Costa Rica's Payments for Environmental Services
    (PSA) program and their effect on rural poverty. Although
    the analysis is hampered by significant information gaps, we
    believe that the PSA Program has probably managed to have an
    impact on the poor. This impact is almost certainly positive
    on the poor who were able to participate, but is difficult
    to quantify. However, except for very few cases, it seems

  9. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    Europe

    The main purpose of this study is to
    assess the changing landscape of agricultural protection and
    taxation patterns in the region. The study is based on the
    EU-10 sample, plus Turkey, as well as seven countries in the
    Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS): Kazakhstan, the
    Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan,
    Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan (the CIS-7). In
    2000-04, these countries accounted for 89 percent of the

  10. Library Resource
    May, 2012

    All countries fund safety net programs
    for the protection of their people. Though an increasing
    number of safety net programs are extremely well thought
    out, adroitly implemented, and demonstrably effective, many
    others are not. This book aims to assist those concerned
    with social policy to understand why countries need social
    assistance, what kind of safety programs will serve those
    best and how to develop such programs for maximum

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