Jharkhand has a large proportion of
marginal and small landholders (84 percent), who mainly
practice rain-fed, single-crop subsistence farming,
cultivating a low-yielding...
Due to the limited penetration of bank
branches across rural India, access to formal financial
services has been a pipe dream for millions of rural poor
for decades....
Type: ReportReport#: 148860Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Acharya,Gayatri
The Government of India (GoI) approved
the National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) in June 2011
to implement a renewed demand-driven strategy of rural
poverty alleviation...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 151597Date: March 1, 2020
Farmers in India, especially
smallholders, face a number of challenges that make their
income streams low and unreliable. Start-up companies have
entered the agriculture...
Type: BriefReport#: 149100Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Krishnaswamy,Karunakaran
Over the past two decades India has seen
significant improvements in household incomes, agricultural
productivity and child survival, although malnutrition among
children...
Type: ReportReport#: 148850Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Acharya,Gayatri
Overview of implementation experience
and progress: the first phase of the National Rural
Livelihoods Project (NRLP), which aimed to reach 4.8 million
rural women, was...
Type: ReportReport#: 148852Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Acharya,Gayatri
The Road Climate Resilience Project for
Timor-Leste aims to deliver sustainable, climate-resilient
road infrastructure on the Dili-Ainaro corridor. This report
provides...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 146567Date: March 1, 2020
The Chongqing Urban -Rural Integration
Project for China aims to increase the access of residents
in participating countries and districts to improved public
services...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 146559Date: March 1, 2020
The Second Rural Electrification Project
aims to contribute to the Peruvian government’s goal of
reducing the electrification gap. This report provides the
findings...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 146565Date: March 1, 2020
The main objective of this activity is
to shed light on the transformative potential of smallholder
irrigation in Mozambique. Irrigation is critical in ensuring
sustainable...
In recent years, there has been renewed
attention on policies to enhance the income generating
capacity and productivity of the poor (World Bank, 2012).
Since both skills...
Type: ReportReport#: 145957Date: February 11, 2020Author:
Vakis,Renos
This handbook outlines an approach to
proactively manage the risks of geohazards on roads, road
users, and the people living near and affected by road. This
handbook...
Type: ReportReport#: 153691Date: January 1, 2020Author:
Toya,Akiko
Rural drinking water quality is an
emergent issue in the State of Punjab. In response to health
concerns related to children being exposed to metals in some
regions,...
The Sundarban region lies at the delta
of three mighty rivers of Ganga, Brahmaputra and Meghna. It
is one of the most, if not the most, vulnerable region
globally, to...
The household and enterprise diary
endeavor is part of the World Bank’s Afghanistan energy
study. The aim of the project is to collect data on energy
patterns at the...
Securing forest tenure lays the
foundation for effective programs across sectors. In the
context of the role of forests in climate change mitigation,
research indicates...
This paper presents the medium-term
results of the impact evaluation of the Integrated
Agriculture and Productivity Project (IAPP), which studies
the effect of IAPP’s...
Kenya has made great strides in
increasing access to electricity to its population. The
Multi-Tier Framework (MTF) survey has found about two-thirds
of the population...
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