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Investment strategies for agricultural and natural resources : investing in knowledge for development
Persley, Gabrielle J. (ed.) - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000663828
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Investment in Agricultural Water for Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa : Synthesis Report
World Bank - 2012
The report analyses the contribution to date of agricultural water management to poverty reduction and growth in the in sub-Saharan Africa region, the reasons for its slow expansion and apparently poor track record, as well as the ways in which increased investment in agricultural water...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553034
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Bridging the Atlantic : Brazil and Sub-Saharan Africa, South-South Partnering for Growth
World Bank - 2012
Bridging the Atlantic is a descriptive study of Brazil's involvement with counterparts in Sub-Saharan Africa through knowledge exchange, trade, and investments. The objective of the study is to understand these relations better with the intent to forge concrete and mutually beneficial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247917
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Sub-Saharan Africa - Improving Institutional and Economic Performance
World Bank - 2012
The institutional crisis affecting economic management in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is a crisis of structural disconnect between formal institutions transplanted from outside and indigenous institutions born of the culture and traditional values of the African past. Building on the findings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012555075
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Natural Resources Governance : Way Forward Action Plan
World Bank - 2012
A 2003 World Bank study, "Governance of Natural Resources in the Philippines," analyzed natural resources management … and governance in the Philippines. It assessed sector policies, particularly property rights, institutions, and financing … public and private institutions responsible for natural resources management. Because the Governance study stopped short of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553499
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Natural resource abundance, growth and diversification in MENA : the effects of natural resources and the role of policies
Marotta, Daniela (contributor); De Melo, Jaime (contributor) - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393783
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The relative richness of the poor? : Natural resources, human capital, and economic growth
Bravo-Ortega, Claudio - 2005
"Are natural resources a blessing or a curse? Bravo-Ortega and De Gregorio present a model in which natural resources have a positive effect on the level of income and a negative effect on its growth rate. The positive and permanent effect on income implies a welfare gain. There is a growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522714
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India - Development and Growth in Northeast India : The Natural Resources, Water, and Environment Nexus
World Bank - 2012
India's Northeastern Region consists of eight states -- Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Tripura -- occupying 262,179 square kilometers and with a population of 39 million (2001 census). This report has come about at the request of the Indian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553196
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Republic of Ecuador Country Environmental Analysis : Environmental Quality and Natural Resource Management for Sustained Economic Growth and Poverty Alleviation
World Bank - 2013
Ecuador is a country with exceptional natural resource and environmental advantages and challenges. It is strategically located and has considerable oil reserves in the interior and the coastal region. This document does not aim to describe the state of the environment in Ecuador. Rather, its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557798
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Cote d'Ivoire - The Growth Agenda : Building on Natural Resources and Exports
World Bank - 2013
Cote d'Ivoire was an economic success story in the first twenty years of independence, but a sharp reversal began in 1980 and by 1993 per capita incomes was back to the level of 1960. Devaluation of the African Financial Community (CFA) franc triggered an economic rebound, but this was soon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557876