Central America is undergoing an
important transition, with urban populations increasingat
accelerated speeds, bringing pressing challenges as well as
opportunities to boost sustained,inclusive and resilient
growth. Today, 59 percent of Central America's

The World Bank has funded land reform, land administration, and land management projects in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region since the early 1990s. The region comprises the 15 countries of the former Soviet Union, the former socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and Turkey.

Improving the productivity of
smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa offers the best
chance to reduce poverty among this generation of rural
poor, by building on the limited resources farming
households already possess. It is also the best and shortest

This paper assesses the relation between
access to markets and cultivated land in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Making use of a geo-referenced panel over three decades
(1970-2005) during which the road network was significantly
improved, the analysis finds a modest but significant

Policy makers and regulators have
devoted much effort to reforms aimed at improving financial
stability in response to lessons from the 2007-09 crisis. At
the same time, much effort has also been directed to
promoting greater financial inclusion as an enabler of equal

Ce document résume la consultation en ligne: Urbanisation, transformation rurale et leurs incidences sur la sécurité alimentaire Consultation en ligne sur le document de fond qui sera soumis au forum du CSA, organisé sur le Forum global sur la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition (Forum FSN) de la FAO du 15 mars au 12 avril 2016 et coordonné par Deborah Fulton, secrétaire du CSA.

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This article is about an early example of gentrification processes in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. A unique form of the gentrification process is examined using a case study of a small inner-city neighborhood on Koza Street through the monitoring of the area between 1998 and 2016, and giving voice to both the gentrifiers and gentrified.

Metropolitan areas are concentrated and dense areas filled settlements and include a central urban region with its surrounding residences.

Source: Afrik.com

Dans un nouveau rapport, deux experts de la Banque mondiale (Salim ROUHANA et Dina Nirina RANARIFIDY- spécialistes en développement urbain ) analysent l’évolution du paysage urbain sénégalais.

Latin America and the Caribbean (LCR)
will be center stage in the global development debate as
leaders from around the world convene in Lima, Peru for the
annual meetings of the World Bank Group and International
Monetary Fund. Critical progress in poverty reduction has

Author: Robyn Pharoah/ActionAid