Documents & Reports
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Reversing the Tide : Reducing Poverty and Boosting Resilience in Zimbabwe (English)
Despite an improvement in human development indicators since 2010, the extreme poverty rate in Zimbabwe increased steadily in the 2010s, climbing from 23 percent in 2010/11 to 30 percent in 2017, 38 percent...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 176544 Document Date: October 1, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sharma,Dhiraj,Alwang,Jeffrey Roger,Chingozha,Tawanda,Hoy,Christopher Alexander,Kurasha,Flora Marvellous Nyasha,Paez Rodas,Ananda
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Reversing the Tide : Reducing Poverty and Boosting Resilience in Zimbabwe - Overview (English)
Despite an improvement in human development indicators since 2010, the extreme poverty rate in Zimbabwe increased steadily in the 2010s, climbing from 23 percent in 2010/11 to 30 percent in 2017, 38 percent...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 176544 Document Date: October 1, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sharma,Dhiraj,Alwang,Jeffrey Roger,Chingozha,Tawanda,Hoy,Christopher Alexander,Kurasha,Flora Marvellous Nyasha,Paez Rodas,Ananda
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Land ownership and technology adoption revisited : improved maize varieties in Ethiopia (English)
The lack of land ownership can discourage agricultural technology adoption, yet there is scarce evidence of the impact of land rental contracts on the adoption of improved crop varieties in developing...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 125344 Document Date: January 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Zeng,Di,Alwang,Jeffrey Roger,Norton,George,Jaleta,Moti,Shiferaw,Bekele Ambaye,Yirga,Chilot
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Understanding the drivers of sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction in Honduras (English)
With a population of seven million, Honduras is the second most populous country in Central America. It is also the second poorest country in the region with an annual per capita income of less than US$...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 37045 Document Date: February 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Alwang,Jeffrey Roger,Jansen,Hans G. P.,Pichon,Francisco J.,Siegel,Paul Bennett
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Understanding the drivers of sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction in Honduras : Comprender los motores del crecimiento rural sostenible y la lucha contra la pobreza en Honduras (Spanish)
With a population of seven million, Honduras is the second most populous country in Central America. It is also the second poorest country in the region with an annual per capita income of less than US$...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 37045 Document Date: February 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Alwang,Jeffrey Roger,Jansen,Hans G. P.,Pichon,Francisco J.,Siegel,Paul Bennett
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Poverty reducing potential of smallholder agriculture in Zambia: opportunities and constraints (English)
The objective of this paper is to investigate poverty-reducing potential of smallholder agriculture in Zambia, considering suggested public actions expected to stimulate broad-based growth in the rural...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 34246 Document Date: July 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Siegel, Paul B.,Alwang,Jeffrey Roger
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Understanding the drivers of sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction in Guatemala (English)
The regional study, "drivers of sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction in Central America," carried out by the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Department of the Latin America...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 33199 Document Date: April 5, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Alwang,Jeffrey Roger,Pichon,Francisco J.,Raine,Martin,Siegel,Paul Bennett
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Understanding the drivers of sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction in Guatemala : Como funcionan en Guatemala los motores de crecimiento rural sostenible y reduccion de la pobreza (Spanish)
The regional study, "drivers of sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction in Central America," carried out by the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Department of the Latin America...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 33199 Document Date: April 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Alwang,Jeffrey Roger,Pichon,Francisco J.,Raine,Martin,Siegel,Paul Bennett
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Spatial analysis of rural economic growth potential in Guatemala (English)
Guatemala like other countries in Central America, growth and development have been concentrated in areas where agro-ecological conditions are favorable for agricultural export products. Economic potential...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 34633 Document Date: February 1, 2005 Author: Alwang,Jeffrey Roger,Siegel,Paul Bennett,Wooddall-Gainey,David
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Public investments in tourism in Northeast Brazil : Does a poor-area strategy benefit the poor? (English)
Tourism development is often promoted as a pro-poor non-agricultural rural strategy. However, little research exists at the World Bank about the broad impacts of tourism development. This paper is an interesting...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 34634 Document Date: February 1, 2005 Author: Alwang,Jeffrey Roger,Siegel. Paul B.
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Export commodity production and broad-based rural development: coffee and cocoa in the Dominican Republic (English)
An estimated 80,000-100,000 Dominican farmers produce coffee and cocoa, nearly 40 percent of all agricultural producers. The sectors also provide employment for tens of thousands of field laborers and...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3306 Document Date: May 1, 2004 Author: Alwang,Jeffrey Roger,Siegel,Paul Bennett