Today’s food systems generate 12
trillion dollars in hidden social, economic and
environmental costs. Implementing five "food finance
imperatives" would not only reduce...
Type: BriefReport#: 164319Date: September 23, 2021
The paper, which serves as a gender
background paper for the 2021 Malawi Poverty Assessment, is
structured as follows. It first presents the data and
empirical strategy....
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 164210Date: September 23, 2021Author:
Gross,Melanie ;
Muller,Miriam ;
Caruso,German Daniel ;
Cardona Sosa,Lina Marcela
This paper reviews the first 14 months
of the ERF’s operation, and this short duration should be
borne in mind when assessing potential policy changes. The
review spans...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 165971Date: September 23, 2021
The Food Industry is perhaps the most
prevalent industry across the world with an innumerable set
of firms engaged in production. In analyzing the sector, it
was determined...
Type: ReportReport#: 164357Date: September 22, 2021Author:
Lapres,Blair Edward ;
Bacic,Kazimir Luka
Throughout history, industrialization
has been synonymous with development. However, the trend of
premature deindustrialization and the spread of automation
technologies...
Type: PublicationReport#: 164078Date: September 16, 2021
Efforts aimed at supporting domestic
revenue mobilization in developing countries are often
designed and evaluated based on empirical indicators, such
as revenue-to-GDP...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9776Date: September 15, 2021Author:
Bogetic,Zeljko ;
Naeher,Dominik ;
Narayanan,Raghavan
The purpose of this manual is to provide
countries with practical advice and guidance for developing
a “nested” system for REDD+ implementation. Nested REDD+
systems...
A forestry investment can include land
suitable for growing trees, the trees themselves, or both.
Forestry has long provided opportunities for institutional
investors...
Type: ReportReport#: 156854Date: September 13, 2021Author:
Binkley,Clark Shepard ;
Stewart,Fiona Elizabeth ;
Power,Samantha Elizabeth
This case study is part of a series
prepared by the World Bank’s Water Global Practice to
highlight existing experiences in the water sector. The
purpose of the series...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 163628Date: September 2, 2021
The World Bank has engaged with the
government of Sri Lanka in an advisory services and
analytics (ASA) work entitled priorities for sustainably
managing Sri Lanka’s...
Type: ReportReport#: 165118Date: September 1, 2021Author:
Arin,Tijen ;
Rajapakse,Nadeera ;
Kondo,Sachiko ;
Brummett,Randall ;
Million,Julien Marie Francois ;
Jorge,Miguel Angel
In Western Uganda, women farmers and
their households were facing widespread agricultural and
non-agricultural income shocks in September 2020, indicating
a protracted...
Type: BriefReport#: 165302Date: September 1, 2021Author:
Sharma,Ambika ;
Gruver,Ariel Rose ;
Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C. ;
O'Sullivan,Michael B.
The Benefit Sharing Plan (BSP) for the
implementation of the Emission Reductions (ER) Program
titled Governance, Forest Landscapes and Livelihoods –
Northern Laos (GFLL)...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 165225Date: September 1, 2021
This Guidebook focuses on agricultural
labor related to crop production and post-harvest activities
on household farms. Future research will explore other areas
of household...
In May 2020, the National Statistical
Office (NSO), with support from the World Bank, launched the
High-Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19 (coronavirus), which
tracks...
Type: BriefReport#: 164311Date: September 1, 2021Author:
Vundru,Wilbert Drazi
This paper investigates how the
sector-specific source or the changing sectoral composition
of labor productivity has contributed to aggregate beta
convergence, using...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9767Date: September 1, 2021Author:
Dieppe,Alistair Matthew ;
Matsuoka,Hideaki
This volume is organized to assess
innovations in agricultural survey design, provide practical
recommendations on the design and tradeoffs inherent in
agricultural...
Type: ReportReport#: 164604Date: September 1, 2021Author:
Dillon,Andrew S. ;
Carletto,Calogero ;
Gourlay,Sydney ;
Wollburg,Philip Randolph ;
Zezza,Alberto
Global economic activity continued to
lose momentum in August as recovery leveled off and the new
Delta variant outbreak applied the brakes on services, while
commodity...
São Tomé and Príncipe (STP), a small
island nation in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of Central
Africa, is in many ways a country of great untapped wealth.
Its economy...
Type: Systematic Country DiagnosticReport#: 163801Date: September 1, 2021Author:
Sousa,Liliana Do Couto ;
Carret,Jean-Christophe ;
Kakou,Sylvain ;
Alam,Asad ;
Paci,Pierella ;
Dessus,Sebastien C. ;
Jaffrin,Guillemette Sidonie ;
Lixi,Marc Jean Yves ;
Kamano,Pierre Joseph
The belief that stable forests need to
be conserved reflects their extensive contributions to
carbon sequestration, hydrology, biodiversity, climate,
culture, and society....
Type: ReportReport#: 165865Date: September 1, 2021
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