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November 21, 2008
The World Food Situation - New Driving Forces and Required Actions-
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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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July 22, 2008
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The Sunken Billions - The Economic Justification for Fisheries Reform, World Bank, FAO 2008
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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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October 14, 2005
The Rural Non-Farm Economy Project-
Website to extensive set of studies on rural non farm economy.
The purpose of this project is to promote policies that support non-farm rural livelihoods across a range of less developed countries and transition economies in which the Department ...
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http://www.nri.org/rnfe/index.html
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June 30, 2006
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The Rural Investment Climate: It Differs and It Matters; World Bank 2006
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This
report is the first comprehensive study on rural investment climate. It
accompanies country reports from pilot studies and will be followed by a tool
kit for practitioners, including a training course, and an empirical study of
the databases ...
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Original Resource Location (Source):
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTARD/Resources/Rural_Investment_Climate_ESW
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August 8, 2008
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The Rural Investment Climate: Analysis and Findings, World Bank 2008
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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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March 13, 2008
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The Emerging Biofuels Market Regulatory: Trade and Development Implications, Zarrilli, UNCTAD 2006
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This study was prepared by Simonetta Zarrilli within the framework of the activities of the UNCTAD BioFuels Initiative. It demonstrates how the sharp increase in the price of petroleum products, the finite nature of fossil fuels, growing environmental ...
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September 9, 2008
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The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successfull in the fight against poverty, Briefing note, World Bank, 2008
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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.worl ...
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Original Resource Location (Source):
http://econ.worldbank.org/docsearch
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October 14, 2005
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The Contribution of ICTs to Pro-Poor Growth
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This document was submitted FOR INFORMATION to the POVNET meeting held on 4-5 November 2004.
It was also submitted as BACKGROUND document for the ICTs and Poverty Reduction discussion session at the POVNET Infrastructure for Poverty Reduction (InfraPoor ...
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October 17, 2005
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Term financing in agriculture: A review of relevant experiences Vol.I: Main Report
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The report covers different financing instruments such as term loans, leasing and equity finance/venture capital. It looks mainly at farm level investments such as those mentioned above. However, larger–scale investments such as processing enterp ...
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