The Joint Data Center on Forced
Displacement provides a monthly literature review,
summarizing recently published research to encourage
exchange of ideas on topics related...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 148163Date: April 1, 2020
This poverty assessment focuses on the
evolution of poverty and other social indicators in Ethiopia
between 2010-11 and 2015-2016 (henceforth referred to as
2011 and...
As countries develop (and food
saturation takes hold), agriculture's role as domestic
employer declines. But the broader agri-food system also
expands, and the scope...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9193Date: March 24, 2020Author:
Christiaensen,Luc ;
Rutledge,Zachariah Judson ;
Taylor,J. Edward
As cities grow and spatially expand,
agricultural land is converted into residential land. In
many developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa,
this process...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9192Date: March 23, 2020Author:
M. Picard,Pierre ;
Selod,Harris
The technical assistance on leveraging
urban land for development in Cameroon in particular and
other countries of the CEMAC region in general aimed to
provide analysis...
The World Bank and the Ministry of
National Education (MoNE) of Romania through the National
Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training
Development (NCTVETD)...
Type: ReportReport#: 146785Date: March 11, 2020Author:
Sava,Alina
As countries develop (and food
saturation takes hold), agriculture’s role as domestic
employer declines. But the broader agri-food system (AFS)
also expands, and the...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 148250Date: March 10, 2020Author:
Christiaensen,Luc ;
Rutledge,Zachariah Judson ;
Taylor,John Edward
This paper defines three new indicators
that capture the remoteness of local communities within a
country context and the overall scale of population
dispersion and...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9179Date: March 10, 2020Author:
Halstead,Imogen Cara ;
Utz,Robert Johann ;
Xia,Boer
In 2018, the World Bank and the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) jointly issued a position paper on Culture in City
Reconstruction...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 146673Date: March 3, 2020Author:
Amirtahmasebi,Rana
The Government of India (GoI) approved
the National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) in June 2011
to implement a renewed demand-driven strategy of rural
poverty alleviation...
Type: ReportReport#: 148848Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Acharya,Gayatri
Layer farming is an income-generating
livelihood activity wherein egg-laying poultry birds are
raised by a household for the purpose of egg production on a
commercial...
Type: BriefReport#: 149101Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Newton-Lewis, Tom ;
Jha, Avadesh ;
Singh,Pratyush Ranjan ;
Nagpal, Phalasha ;
Bihari, Bipin
The main design principle behind self
help groups (SHGs) organizations of rural poor women at the
village level was to empower women by mobilizing them into
small groups,...
Small and marginal farmers in India
struggle for access to good quality inputs in farming of
crops (seeds, fertilizers, crop protection) and livestock
(stock species,...
JOHAR is a pioneer in enabling tribal
communities to be an integral stakeholder in development by
ensuring availability, accessibility and utilization of
water resources...
Access to adequate and timely credit at
affordable rates is critical for the rural poor to alleviate
high cost debt and invest in livelihood opportunities.
Despite the...
Type: ReportReport#: 148859Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Acharya,Gayatri
The JOHAR project was initiated in 2017
to aid targeted rural producer households to diversify and
enhance their household income, and achieve a significant
increase...
Type: BriefReport#: 149095Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Bihari, Bipin ;
Khanuja, Jasmeet ;
Kothari,Anand Kumar Yogen ;
Newton-Lewis, Tom
Rural India is primarily an agri-based
economy. Over-dependence on agriculture has meant declining
percapita rural income which has gradually initiated a shift
towards...
Type: ReportReport#: 148865Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Acharya,Gayatri
The launch of NRLM to address rural
poverty marks a paradigm shift in poverty alleviation
because unlike other programs that preceded it, the NRLM
focuses on training...
Type: ReportReport#: 148851Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Acharya,Gayatri
The agriculture sector is the largest
employer in India, providing direct employment to more than
fifty percent of the nation’s workforce. Small and marginal
farmers...
Type: ReportReport#: 148861Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Acharya,Gayatri
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