This report explores a number of indicators of environmentally sustainable development that include the links between environmental quality and economic growth and between the use of resources and the...
This report is intended to serve as a sourcebook to aid decisionmakers as they create environments conducive to the development of rural financial markets. As a sourcebook, it explores both the traditional...
This report is intended to serve as a sourcebook to aid decisionmakers as they create environments conducive to the development of rural financial markets. As a sourcebook, it explores both the traditional...
This report is intended to serve as a sourcebook to aid decisionmakers as they create environments conducive to the development of rural financial markets. As a sourcebook, it explores both the traditional...
This rural sector strategy outlines the steps the Bank and its partners must take to spur rural development. Key elements of the strategy include (a) taking a broad rural focus, as opposed to a narrow...
This study reveals the power and utility of participatory methods for policy research. It demonstrates practices and processes that can tap the knowledge the poor have about their own reality. By comparing...
This is a report of the panel commissioned by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) to assess the potential of crop bioengineering as well as the inherent risks. The report...
This rural sector strategy outlines the steps the Bank and its partners must take to spur rural development. Key elements of the strategy include (a) taking a broad rural focus, as opposed to a narrow...
This report is intended to serve as a sourcebook to aid decisionmakers as they create environments conducive to the development of rural financial markets. As a sourcebook, it explores both the traditional...
This report explores a number of indicators of environmentally sustainable development that include the links between environmental quality and economic growth and between the use of resources and the...
If development is to become sustainable, human behavior must change. Corporations, consumers, and public agencies all need to switch away from activities that degrade the environment and invest instead...
This report explores a number of indicators of environmentally sustainable development that include the links between environmental quality and economic growth and between the use of resources and the...
It has now been 5 years since most of the countries of the world committed to the policies and programs for environmentally sustainable development laid out at the Rio Earth Summit in Agenda 21. Along...
If development is to become sustainable, human behavior must change. Corporations, consumers, and public agencies all need to switch away from activities that degrade the environment and invest instead...
Efforts to implement environmentally sound pest management strategies have often been impeded by government policies and regulations that inadvertently promote the use of pest control over more sustainable...
Efforts to implement environmentally sound pest management strategies have often been impeded by government policies and regulations that inadvertently promote the use of pest control over more sustainable...
This volume argues that biodiversity must be better managed and conserved to meet the twin challenges of improving living standards and enhancing the environment. The authors explore the many links between...
In both developed and developing countries the coastal zone is likely to undergo the most profound change in the near future. Already more than 60 percent of the world's population lives within 60 kilometers...
This publication describes the enabling environment required in developing countries to acquire powerful new tools in biotechnology and to assess their potential usefulness. It is designed to provide a...
This monograph describes the position of the World Bank concerning sustainability and the wealth of nations; it discusses the Bank's efforts to more rigorously define the concept of sustainability, to...