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  • Vietnam - Spearheading Vietnam’s Green Agricultural Transformation : Moving to Low-Carbon Rice (English)

    This report focuses on promoting low-carbon rice production systems in Vietnam. There are many sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within the agricultural sector in Vietnam, including along value...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 176267 Document Date: September 21, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Shrivastava,Animesh,Tchale,Hardwick,Cao,Binh Thang,Elabed,Ghada,Kar,Anuja,Kieu,Hoa Thi Phuong,Nguyen,Hoa Thi Thanh

  • Realizing Scale in Smallholder-Based Agriculture : Policy Options for the Philippines (English)

    In recent decades, the agriculture and fisheries sector in the Philippines has grown but has clearly not lived up to its potential. Philippine agriculture has weathered the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19)...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 161421 Document Date: June 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Weiss,Eli,Kar,Anuja,Nash,John D.,Jaffee,Steven M.,Forno,Doug,Briones,Roehl,Quinones,Maria Theresa G.,Figueroa-Geron,Carolina V.,Macandog,Paula Beatrice Magcale

  • Malaysia Economic Monitor : Sowing the Seeds – Abbreviated Report (English)

    In 2020, the country experienced its sharpest recession in twenty years due to the impact of a triple shock related to the direct health impact of the pandemic; the economic impact of domestic restrictions...

    Document Type: Economic Updates and Modeling Report No.: 155222 Document Date: December 18, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Record,Richard James Lowden,Teh Sharifuddin,Shakira Binti,Chong,Yew Keat,Bandaogo,Mahama Abdel Samir Sidbewende,Goh,Sheau Yin,Shrivastava,Animesh,Cassou,Emilie,Kar,Anuja

  • Malaysia Economic Monitor : Sowing the Seeds (English)

    In 2020, the country experienced its sharpest recession in twenty years due to the impact of a triple shock related to the direct health impact of the pandemic; the economic impact of domestic restrictions...

    Document Type: Economic Updates and Modeling Report No.: 155096 Document Date: December 7, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Record,Richard James Lowden,Teh Sharifuddin,Shakira Binti,Chong,Yew Keat,Bandaogo,Mahama Abdel Samir Sidbewende,Goh,Sheau Yin,Shrivastava,Animesh,Cassou,Emilie,Kar,Anuja

  • Transforming Philippine Agriculture During COVID-19 and Beyond (English)

    Like other rapidly growing and urbanizing middle-income countries, the Philippines is experiencing a structural transformation of its economy. Structural transformation has progressed slowly in the Philippines...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 150131 Document Date: June 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Weiss,Eli,Kar,Anuja,Nash,John D.,Jaffee,Steven M.,Briones,Roehl,Figueroa-Geron,Carolina V.,Macandog,Paula Beatrice Magcale

  • Male outmigration and women's work and empowerment in agriculture : the case of Nepal and Senegal (English)

    Attention to the implications of rural outmigration is growing, but little evidence exists on its association with women in agriculture. Migration affects women’s work and empowerment mainly through the...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 127755 Document Date: June 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kar,Anuja,Slavchevska,Vanya,Kaaria,Susan,Taivalmaa, Sanna Lisa,Mane, Erdgin,Ciacci, Riccardo,Hoberg,Yurie Tanimichi,Townsend,Robert,Stanley,Victoria

  • Jobs from Agriculture in Afghanistan (English)

    The agriculture sector can play an important role in poverty reduction and sustained growth in Afghanistan, primarily through job creation, improved productivity, and inclusiveness. Using an 'agricultural...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 123158 Document Date: February 5, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Leao,Izabela,Ahmed,Md Mansur,Kar,Anuja

  • Dynamics of rural growth in Bangladesh : sustaining poverty reduction (English)

    The rural economy in Bangladesh has been a powerful source of economic growth and has substantially reduced poverty, especially since 2000, but the remarkable transformation and unprecedented dynamism...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 103244 Document Date: May 17, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gautam,Madhur,Faruqee,Rashidur R.,Ahmed,Md Mansur,Shilpi,Forhad J.,Khandker,Shahidur R.,Ahmed, S. Amer,Verissimo,Patrick,Kar,Anuja,Chellaraj,Gnanaraj