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December 3, 2007
New Evidence on the Urbanization of Global Poverty, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4199, April 2007-
We find that one-quarter of the world’s consumption poor live in urban areas and that the proportion has been rising over time. By fostering economic growth, urbanization helped reduce absolute poverty in the aggregate but did little for urban poverty. ...
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November 29, 2007
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The urban part of rural development, IIED Working Paper 9
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More than half the urban
population in Africa, Asia and Latin America lives in urban centres with less
than half a million inhabitants, many of them in market towns and
administrative centres with between 5,000 and 100,000 inhabitants. But
demograp ...
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November 29, 2007
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Beyond Rural Urban -- Keeping up with Changing Realities, IFPRI Issue Brief 37, 2005
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The labels “urban” and “rural” fall far short of capturing the dynamism and diversity of reality. Conjuring up visions of crowded cities and isolated countryside, they suggest separate worlds and ways of living. They mask the many ways urban and rural ...
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November 16, 2007
Gender in Agricultural Livelihoods -- Questionnaire, World Bank Nov 2007-
The Agriculture and Rural Development (ARD) in the World Bank, together with FAO and IFAD, is developing a Gender in Agricultural Livelihoods (GAL) Sourcebook. This will provide a wide range of practical guidelines and innovative approaches to investin ...
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November 6, 2007
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From Project Aid towards Sector Support, An evaluation of the sector-wide approach in Dutch bilateral aid 1998-2005, Minbuza 2006
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In order to formulate an answer to the persistent criticism that aid lacks effectiveness, since the mid 1990s bilateral and multilateral donors have developed initiatives to alter the organisation and purpose of aid. The key theme addressed is the need ...
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November 6, 2007
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Review of Evidence of the Effectiveness of CIDA's Grants and Contributions, CIDA 2006
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The development effectiveness performance of the Agency's grants and contributions is 80% satisfactory or better and 20% unsatisfactory or lower, which compares to similar scores of the performance of the WB and the AsDB.
There is minimal diffe ...
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October 25, 2007
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Best Practice: Drivers of Local Economic Growth - Developing the Dairy Sector in Chontales, Nicaragua
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A World Bank study of drivers of local economic growth in Nicaragua carried out in 2004, generated much enthusiasm for territorial approaches to planning in rural development programmes. A follow-up study of the dairy sector in Chontales in Nicar ...
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October 24, 2007
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Best Practice: Promotion of Private Sector Development in Agriculture, Kenya
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To support small and medium-scale enterprises in tapping market potential, the programme applies an adapted value chain development approach. In a nutshell, the private sector actors are empowered to actively and efficiently participate in markets wher ...
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October 10, 2007
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Best Practice: Environmental-oriented Management of Local and Regional Development in Pará and Amapá
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The project followed a two-fold approach: promoting value chains based on biodiversity linking communities and companies in business-partnerships, and promoting the diversification of community income and business opportunities to prevent undesired depend ...
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October 9, 2007
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Best Practice: Linking tea farmers with markets
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The Sahyadri Tea Farmers’ Consortium was established to overcome poor market access of small-scale tea farmers. After participatory appraisals with self-help groups that were coordinated by Village Development Councils, the consortium was established, and ...
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