This study by the World Bank indicates
that forests offer vast potential for poverty reduction and
rural economic growth in India while also supporting
critical national...
Type: Other Rural StudyReport#: 34481Date: December 28, 2005
This study by the World Bank indicates
that forests offer vast potential for poverty reduction and
rural economic growth in India while also supporting
critical national...
Type: Other Rural StudyReport#: 34481Date: December 28, 2005
India faces a turbulent water future.
The current water development and management system is not
sustainable; unless dramatic changes are made in the way in
which government...
Type: Other Rural StudyReport#: 34750Date: December 22, 2005
The water economy of Pakistan depends
fundamentally on a gigantic and complex hydraulic
infrastructure system. There are now a set of related
challenges which have to...
Type: Other Rural StudyReport#: 34081Date: November 22, 2005
The overall objective of the present
study is to contribute to the knowledge-base that is
urgently required for the implementation of sustainable
rural development activities...
Type: Other Rural StudyReport#: 36785Date: October 5, 2005
Information and communication
technologies (ICTs) are a potentially revolutionary means of
empowering the poor. Realizing this potential will require
investments that...
Type: Other Rural StudyReport#: 33503Date: October 1, 2005
The Philippines by virtue of its
geographic circumstances is highly prone to natural
disasters, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tropical
cyclones and floods,...
Type: Other Rural StudyReport#: 33822Date: October 1, 2005
Information and communication
technologies (ICTs) are a potentially revolutionary means of
empowering the poor. Realizing this potential will require
investments that...
Type: Other Rural StudyReport#: 33503Date: October 1, 2005
A major problem in the transition
countries of Europe and Central Asia (ECA) during the
transition was the breakdown of the relationships of farms
with input suppliers...
Type: Other Rural StudyReport#: 29457Date: June 30, 2005
There is still a long road ahead before
all Indonesian's can benefit from the full potential of
ICT. That road seems even longer to rural women. Despite
some improvements...
Type: Other Rural StudyReport#: 37697Date: June 30, 2005Author:
Garcia Ramilo, Chat ;
Hermawati,Wati ;
Jorge,Sonia Nunes
This report is a synthesis of
information gleaned from four case studies of World
Bank-financed land programs in Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Ghana,
and the Lao People's Democratic...
Type: Other Rural StudyReport#: 32571Date: June 1, 2005
The Philippines is one of the most
natural hazard-prone countries in the world. The social and
economic cost of natural disasters in the country is
increasing due to...
Type: Other Rural StudyReport#: 38063Date: June 1, 2005
The revision of the forests Operational
Policy (OP) 4.36 in the Bank, stems from discussions on this
new approach about the concern raised that, while Bank
sector investments...
Type: Other Rural StudyReport#: 33537Date: May 1, 2005
The Framework presented in this report
links - for the first time in the Egyptian context - access
to investment in rural sanitation services to quantifiable
water quality...
Type: Other Rural StudyReport#: 32230Date: March 31, 2005
The main objective of the Water Sector
Review in the member countries the Cooperation Council of
the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) is to (1) conduct a
diagnosis of the...
Type: Other Rural StudyReport#: 32539Date: March 31, 2005
The objective of this study is to raise
awareness and understanding of exposure and vulnerability to
drought in Central Asian countries and the Caucasus and to
introduce...
Type: Other Rural StudyReport#: 31998Date: March 11, 2005
The fisheries and aquaculture sectors
are significant contributors to the economy of Vietnam.
Direct production value (at the farm gate or on the wharf)
in 2003 was...
Type: Other Rural StudyReport#: 31695Date: February 16, 2005
This regional study encompasses three
Central American countries: Nicaragua, Guatemala, and
Honduras. The focus of this report is Honduras. The
objective of the study...
Type: Other Rural StudyReport#: 31192Date: December 31, 2004
This regional study encompasses three
Central American countries: Nicaragua, Guatemala and
Honduras. The focus of this report is Guatemala. The study
is motivated by...
Type: Other Rural StudyReport#: 31191Date: December 31, 2004
This regional study encompasses three
Central American countries: Nicaragua, Guatemala, and
Honduras. The focus of this report is Nicaragua. The
objective of the study...
Type: Other Rural StudyReport#: 31193Date: December 31, 2004
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