This new World Bank report says that volatility in food prices has been a key factor behind a rising tide of large scale farmland purchases in the developing world, which can pose social and environment risks, if not well managed.
As world leaders gather at UN headquarters to review Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) progress to date, the World Bank Group has announced that it will mobilize significant new funding for health, education, and agriculture to help countries achieve their MDGs by 2015.
The main objective of this report is to strengthen understanding of climate-related risks and impacts in coastal megacities in developing countries using case studies of three cities that are different in their climate, hydrological, and socioeconomic characteristics.
The objective of this technical report is to provide the background to the methodology used to model the impact of climate change on runoff for the global track of the Economic of Adaptation to Climate Change (EACC) project.
One of the major difficulties in doing cost-benefit analysis of a development project is to estimate the total economic value of project benefits, which are usually
multi-dimensional and include goods and services that are not traded in the market. Challenges also arise in
aggregating the values of different benefits, which may not be mutually exclusive.
This report reviews recent impact evaluations of interventions and programs that seek to reduce child malnutrition as measured by low anthropometric outcomes. The objective is to distill lessons on effective approaches and to improve the relevance of nutrition
impact evaluations of World Bank
This paper aims to highlight the growing importance of improving wastewater use in agriculture across the spectrum from lower to high-income countries. It presents an innovative approach linking key issues related to different aspects of wastewater irrigation to a country
This review of World Bank’s water strategy, calls for better information and an integrated approach to water management. It calls for renewed emphasis on integration of new technologies, hydro power; climate change adaptation, agriculture and sanitation. It also describes implementation of the strategy on the ground within seven countries and provides regional cases.
