World Bank Assistance to Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: An IEG Review

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World Bank Publications, 2007 M01 1 - 144 pages
Sub-Saharan Africa is a critical development priority-it has some of the world's poorest countries and during the past two decades the number of poor in the Region has doubled, to 300 million-more than 40 percent of the Region's population. Africa remains behind on most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and is unlikely to reach them by 2015. With some of the world's poorest countries, Africa is a development priority for the donor community. A major drag on Africa's development is the underperformance of the critical agriculture sector, which has been neglected both by donors and governments over the past two decades. The sector faces a variety of constraints that are particular to agriculture in Africa and make its development a complex challenge. Poor governance and conflict in several countries further complicate matters. IEG has assessed the development effectiveness of World Bank assistance in addressing constraints to agricultural development in Africa over the period of fiscal 1991-2006.
 

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Page 145 - Group consists of five institutions — the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the International Development Association (IDA), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (1C SID).
Page 145 - Its mission is to fight poverty for lasting results and to help people help themselves and their environment by providing resources, sharing knowledge, building capacity and forging partnerships in the public and private sectors.
Page vii - Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas ICRISAT International Crops Research Institute for the SemiArid Tropics...
Page 12 - The central concept of rural development presented here is of a process through which rural poverty is alleviated by sustained increases in the productivity and incomes of low-income rural workers and households. The emphasis is on raising output and incomes rather than simply redistributing current income and existing assets, although the latter may be desirable or even essential in an overall rural development strategy which links production with distributive or equity objectives.
Page vii - CGIAR Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture...
Page 53 - Agenda 21 at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 provided international organizations and the nations of the world with a new focus for climate-related activities.
Page viii - UNDP — United Nations Development Programme; USAID — United States Agency for International Development.
Page 12 - ... series of sequential projects— first health, then education, then agricultural development. Or it may attempt a broadbased, multisectoral approach whereby a series of activities are to be undertaken almost simultaneously. In all cases, the constituent elements should be complementary and reinforcing. Most of the low-income groups in the rural areas depend heavily on agriculture for their livelihood. It follows that many of the programs intended to raise rural incomes must center on agricultural...
Page 130 - Regulatory quality measures the ability of the government to formulate and implement sound policies and regulations that permit and promote private sector development.
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