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October 17, 2005
Rural Development Cooperation: Learning from Finland's International Projects and Programmes-
The review demonstrates that Finland’s support to rural development has followed the evolution of the development paradigm globally shifting from top-down approaches to participatory way of working, and from technical issues to more institutional an ...
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October 17, 2005
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Rural Development - A Reference Framework
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The Policy Paper on Rural Development is a formally binding programmed directive governing the formulation by the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of German governmental development cooperation. The present policy paper utili ...
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December 3, 2007
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Rural and Urban Dynamics and Poverty: Evidence from China and India, IFPRI Discussion Paper 196, 2005
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The analysis indicates that, in the case of China, agricultural growth
has contributed to poverty reduction in both rural and urban areas, but its
effect on rural poverty is larger than its effect on urban poverty. The results
for India also clearly ...
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April 29, 2008
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Rising food prices: policy options and World Bank response - Background note for the Development Committee, World Bank, April 2008
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1. Context
2. What can governments do?
3. How can the World Bank and donors help?
3.1 Support for rapid policy responses
Just-in-time policy advice to address immediate concerns.
Meeting short-run financing needs.
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April 29, 2008
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Rising food prices: A global crisis - Action needed now to avert poverty and hunger, ODI Briefing Paper 37, April 2008
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Soaring food prices pose problems for three groups. First, the poor whose ability to buy food is undermined. Second, governments of low-income countries facing higher import bills, soaring costs for safety net programmes and political unrest. Third, ai ...
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April 29, 2008
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Rising Food Prices - What should be done? IFPRI Policy paper, April 2008
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The sharp increase in food prices over the past couple of years has raised serious concerns about the food and nutrition situation of poor people in developing countries, about inflation, and—in some countries—about civil unrest. Real prices are st ...
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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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449 views/downloads
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July 11, 2007
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Report of the Rwanda CAADP National Compact process, March 2007
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This short document reports the process and outcomes of the Rwanda Roundtable-process, a multi-stakeholder process that led to the agreement on the Rwanda national CAADP Compact in March 2007.
The Rwanda CAADP (Comprehensive Africa Agri ...
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October 14, 2005
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Regional Rural Development: A Regional Response to Rural Poverty
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The "Concept for Rural Development" of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) provides principles and a framework for poverty-oriented rural development interventions ranging all the way from local to global i ...
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October 14, 2005
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Reengaging in Agricultural Water Management: Challenges, Opportunities, and Trade-Offs
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The World Bank’s recent corporate strategies on rural development, water, and the environment all call for reengagement in agricultural water management (AWM) stressing that water for agriculture has to be used sustainably within an integrated ap ...
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