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The agriculture sector in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains the backbone of national economies, sustaining rural and … urban livelihoods alike, and providing food and income for the majority of households. Recent agriculture growth in Sub …-Saharan Africa has been solid and has supported improvements in nutrition outcomes and poverty rates.Despite some relative gains …
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The objective of this report is to provide a review of and recommendations for improving the agriculture and food … security risk financing framework in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Member States. This report presents the … compilation of various analyses and activities realized in the context of a World Bank Group Advisory Services program to the SADC …
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The rural economy in Bangladesh has been a powerful source of economic growth and has substantially reduced poverty, especially since 2000, but the remarkable transformation and unprecedented dynamism in rural Bangladesh are an underexplored, underappreciated, and largely untold story. The...
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agriculture and rural development in Croatia, as the country prepares its National Agriculture and Rural Development Strategy and …) in the context of the macro-trends and issues affecting Croatian agriculture today, the ongoing EU CAP reform process … by the World Bank as key inputs. Both advanced economic analysis and qualitative assessments were carried out as part of …
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developing countries, particularly in Africa, most people are still not connected to local, regional, or global markets. Such … rural population of about one billion disconnected around the world …
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This report applies the framework to diagnose the opportunities and constraints faced by the rural economy and households and to assess policy options to address these constraints. The approach builds on four steps. The first step consists in examining the socio-demographic profile and living...
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resulted in losses generated by the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sector. Climate change impacts are expected to appear …
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The World Bank Group has developed a new diagnostic approach called Maximizing Finance for Development (MFD). This … study pilots the use of the World Bank's MFD approach to identify areas along value chains (VCs) where the private sector is …
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The objective of this report is to provide a review of and recommendations for improving the agriculture and food … security risk financing framework in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Member States. This report presents the … compilation of various analyses and activities realized in the context of a World Bank Group Advisory Services program to the SADC …
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Agriculture and the rural space will continue to demand the attention of policy makers in Bolivia for several reasons …, even as urbanization gains momentum. First, agriculture is a proven engine of economic growth. Aside from showing its … strength in decades past, in recent years agriculture shielded the Bolivian economy from the worst effects of the decline in …
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