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September 9, 2008

Global Poverty Estimates: The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successfull in the fight against poverty, World Bank, 2008

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank’s past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better data. Extreme poverty—as judged by what “poverty” means in the world’s poorest ountries—is found to be more pervasive than we t ...

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September 9, 2008

The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successfull in the fight against poverty, Briefing note, World Bank, 2008

This briefing summarizes the results of a paper by Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion, “The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty,” Policy Research Working Paper, World Bank. http://econ.worldban ...

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September 2, 2008

Establishing a facility for rapid response to soaring food prices in developing countries, Proposal, EC, June 2008

The European Commission has adopted on 18 July 2008 a proposal to establish an European Food Facility with the following characteristics :

an ad-hoc instrument for short-term response to soaring food prices in developing countries established by ...

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August 21, 2008

Forests Sourcebook – Practical Guidance for Sustaining Forests in Development Cooperation, World Bank 2008

The Forests Sourcebook is divided into two parts. The first contains an introduction to the book plus seven chapters covering topics associated with enhancing the contribution of forests to poverty reduction, engaging the private sector, meeting the gr ...

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August 8, 2008

Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Kenya Forests Act 2005, World Bank 2007

In November of 2005 the Government of Kenya (GOK) ratified a new Forests Act. The Forests Act is an outcome of the Kenya Forest Master plan finalized in 1994. In the new Forests Act the government embraces the concept of participatory forest management ...

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August 8, 2008

Livestock Externalities: Public Policy and Investment Needs, World Bank 2008

Driven by population growth, urbanization, and income growth, the demand for animalsource food products is rising fast in the developing world. As a result, the livestock subsector, which already constitutes 30 percent of agricultural GDP in the develo ...

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August 8, 2008

The Rural Investment Climate: Analysis and Findings, World Bank 2008

This Economic and Sector Work report analyzes econometric data from Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania. It (1) provides a broad and deep understanding of non-farm activity in rural areas, its constraints, and possible ways to mitigate those constraints ...

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July 22, 2008

The Sunken Billions - The Economic Justification for Fisheries Reform, World Bank, FAO 2008

This report concludes that marine capture fisheries are an underperforming global asset. The study shows that the difference between the potential and actual net economic benefits from marine fisheries is in the order of $50 billion per year. The cumul ...

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July 10, 2008

Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook, World Bank, FAO, IFAD 2008

The sourcebook provides an up-to-date understanding of gender issues and a rich compilation of compelling evidence of good practices and lessons learned. The sourcebook is aimed at the practitioner both in international and regional development agencie ...

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July 4, 2008

UK Treasury: Global commodities - long-term vision for stable, secure and sustainable global markets

The UK's Treasury report: "Global commodities: long-term vision for stable, secure and sustainable global markets", dated June 2008, outlines Britain’s vision for the required international action to enable efficient and effective g ...