• Bringing Power to Lao PDR’s Rural Poor
    Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is one of the fastest growing economies in East Asia and the Pacific. It has improved access to electricity and has become...
    Type: Brief Report#: 125074 Date: March 1, 2018 Author: ESMAP
  • Gender gap in earnings in Vietnam : why do Vietnamese women work in lower paid occupations
    Despite making significant progress in educational attainment and labor force participation, women in Vietnam continue to earn less than men, which is partly explained...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124438 Date: March 1, 2018 Author: Chowdhury,Iffat Ara ; Johnson,Hillary C. ; Mannava,Aneesh ; Perova,Elizaveta
  • Policy Professionals Can't Defeat Their Own Biases
    A study shows policy professionals, like everyone else, are subject to cognitive biases.
    Type: Brief Report#: 124763 Date: March 1, 2018
  • What gets measured gets done : addressing policy capture and privilege-seeking in the MENA region and beyond
    Countries around the globe are seeking to diversify their economies and make them competitive. For this to happen, resources need to flow to firms that can make the...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124588 Date: March 1, 2018 Author: Akhtar,Mahmood Syed ; Ait Ali Slimane,Meriem
  • Monitoring investments
    This note provides guidance on how to monitor the performance and impact of agricultural investments, and on which aspects to observe. Ongoing monitoring of investments...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124284 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Introduction
    The United Nation Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) - World Bank knowledge into action note series is a compendium of practical, thematic guidance documents...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124276 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Kenya - Enabling private-sector participation in infrastructure and social services
    Kenya is developing programs to foster private sector participation in infrastructure investments to help address the funding gap in the sector. The World Bank Group...
    Type: Brief Report#: 125276 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Environmental and social impact assessments
    This note provides guidance on the conduct of environmental and social impact assessments (ESIAs) and the implementation of associated environmental and social management...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124289 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Additional resources
    This document provides introduction by providing overall guidance on the use of terms and abbreviations across the entire notes series. Common overarching principles...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124277 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Training and integrating local people into the workforce
    This note provides guidance on how to assist people from surrounding areas in gaining formal employment at the investment. Formal employment is a major expected benefit...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124292 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Outgrower schemes
    This note provides guidance on the design and implementation of outgrower schemes to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes for investors and smallholders. Outgrower schemes...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124279 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Aquaculture
    Global fisheries production has risen rapidly over the past 60 years at over two and a half times the rate of world population growth, and aquaculture today is among...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124341 Date: March 1, 2018 Author: Cassou,Emilie
  • Technology transfer
    This note provides guidance to governments and investors on how best to support the development and transfer of technologies to local smallholders and communities. New...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124298 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Labor market observatories – critical success factors
    Type: Brief Report#: 124553 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Bringing rural development to bear on human nutrition
    Intuitively, agricultural and rural development projects may seem to bear straightforward impacts on human nutrition. Yet nutrition outcomes are not traditionally within...
    Type: Brief Report#: 127756 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Respecting land rights and averting land disputes
    This note provides guidance on how to ensure that agricultural investments respect existing land rights, both formal and informal, and thereby avert land disputes. Failure...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124286 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Fertilizer
    Over the past 50–60 years, unbridled growth in global fertilizer use to boost and maintain crop yields has polluted natural and agricultural systems, leading to a range...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124343 Date: March 1, 2018 Author: Cassou,Emilie
  • Field Burning
    The practice of burning unwanted vegetation to prepare land for sowing crops or other farming activities is a worldwide and long-standing practice. Its tenacity, despite...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124342 Date: March 1, 2018 Author: Cassou,Emilie
  • West Bank and Gaza - Securing energy for growth and development
    Power demand in West Bank is fast outpacing supply and Gaza is already experiencing severe shortage with electricity supply of less than 6 hours per day, affecting homes,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 125275 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Creating an enabling environment
    This note provides guidance on how to create an investment climate that is conducive to attracting high-quality, responsible investment in agriculture. The investment...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124280 Date: March 1, 2018
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