World Bank Assistance to Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa : an IEG Review.
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 D...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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World Bank Group
2007.
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Colección: | Online access: World Bank World Bank Open Knowledge Repository.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Avant propos; Prefácio; Preface; Préface; Nota Preliminar; Executive Summary; Synthèse; Resumo Executivo; Management Response; Réponse de la direction; A Resposta da Administração; Chairperson's Summary: Committee on Development Effectiveness (CODE); Rapport de synthèse du Président : Comité pour l'efficacité du développement (CODE); Resumo do Presidente:Comissão sobre a Eficácia do Desenvolvimento (COED); Evaluation Snapshot in Selected Languages; 1 Introduction; 2 African Agriculture and the Bank
- Figure 2.1 Changes in Cereal Production Produced by Changes in Area and Yield, 1961-2001 Box 2.1 Constraints to Development of Access to Credit and Rural Finance in Africa; 3 Bank Support for Agriculture and Portfolio Performance; Figure 3.1 Sectoral Distribution of Investment Lending in Africa, Fiscal 1991-2006; Box 3.1 Bank's Coding System and Inadequate Reflection of Important Agricultural Activities; Figure 3.2 Outcome and Sustainability Ratings; Figure 3.3 Performance of Bank Projects with Greater than 50 Percent Agricultural Component; 4 Key Factors of Performance
- Box 4.1 Weak Political Commitment Has Been a Factor in Performance Box 4.2 The History and Challenges of National Research Capacity in Africa; 5 The Bank's Contribution-A Thematic Assessment; Box 5.1 Bank Support for Fadama Project I in Nigeria: Achievements Constrained by Lack of a Multifaceted Approach; Figure 5.1 Production of Maize and Cassava in Six Drought-Affected Countries of Southern Africa; Box 5.2 Cassava: A Missed Opportunity for the Bank to Contribute to Food Security; Box 5.3 New Uganda Extension System Improves Efficiency But Faces Challenges
- Box 5.4 Zimbabwe Pilot for Land Reform Fails to Take Off Box 5.5 Agricultural Market Reform in Africa: The Expectations; Box 5.6 Negative Impacts of Policy Sequencing on Traditional Export Crop Sectors in Cameroon; 6 Findings and Recommendations; Appendixes; Endnotes; References