Development debates frequently focus on making economic growth sustainable or ensuring that natural resources are used sustainably; such debates rest on longstanding scholarship and largely shared understandings...
Development is a dynamic, transformative process that fundamentally changes how people live. People are the means and ends of development-the goal of which is to equip, link, and enable groups of people...
The structure of this report is organized into 10 sections. Following the Introduction, section two discusses the country context in terms of demographic trends and potential dividends and the fiscal space...
The development objective of the Second Sustainable and Participatory Energy Management Project for Senegal is to increase the availability of diversified household fuels in a sustainable way,and to increase...
The development objectives of the Recovery and Reform of the Electricity Sector Project for Cape Verde are to increase electricity generation in the Islands of Sao Vicente and Santiago and to assist ELECTRA...
The development objective of the Casamance Development Pole Project for Senegal are to: (i) enhance the agricultural productivity of youth and female farmers for selected crops; and (ii) improve transport...
The objective of the Electricity Support Project for Gambia, The is to increase the availability and reliability of electricity supply for existing customers. The restructuring will also enable the Borrower...
The development objective of the Statistics for Results Project for Senegal is to better inform public and private sector decision-makers by filling gaps in the statistical knowledge base in the areas...
Over the last decade Latin America and the Caribbean region has achieved important progress towards the World Bank Group's goals of eradicating extreme poverty and boosting income growth of the bottom...
Over the past decade (2003—2012), Latin America has experienced strong income growth and a notable reduction in income inequality, with the region's Gini coefficient falling from 55.6 to 51.8. Previous...
Over the past decade (2003-12), Latin America has experienced strong income growth and a notable reduction in income inequality, with the region's Gini coefficient falling from 55.6 to 51.8. Previous studies...
Yet the current situation differs from 2007-2008 in critical respects. First, recent international price increases are more widespread across agricultural commodities than in 2008, when price spikes were...
Yet the current situation differs from 2007-2008 in critical respects. First, recent international price increases are more widespread across agricultural commodities than in 2008, when price spikes were...
The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has made laudable progress in the past fifteen years in reducing poverty, building the middle class, and promoting prosperity for all levels of society. Extreme...
The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has made laudable progress in the past fifteen years in reducing poverty, building the middle class, and promoting prosperity for all levels of society. Extreme...
Strong poverty reduction in Latin America resumed with the growth rebound in 2010, as both moderate and extreme poor households benefitted from the recovery, accelerating poverty reduction to rates similar...
Strong poverty reduction in Latin America resumed with the growth rebound in 2010, as both moderate and extreme poor households benefitted from the recovery, accelerating poverty reduction to rates similar...
This book reports on the status and evolution of human opportunity in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). It builds on the 2008 publication in several directions. First, it uses newly available data...
This brief included the following headings: how did the 2009 economic crisis affect poverty in Latin America? Why did poverty rise by less than predicted in 2009? Why did the links between poverty and...