from chronic food insecurity (World Food Program, 2010). One third of the population is food insecure, the most vulnerable of whom are women and children. International Financial Institutions (IFIs), including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB) and the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB), have severely undermined Haiti’s ability to improve food security and reduce hunge...

Support for range management interventions by the World Bank and other international development institutions has a somewhat checkered history. In certain respects, this has mirrored theoretical developments and shifts in thinking among rangeland professionals, but the relationship between rangeland science and development policy and practice is far from direct. It is mediated by contextual fac...

The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) defines disability as a complex phenomenon, reflecting the interaction between features of a person’s body and features of the society in which he or she lives (World Health Organization [WHO] 2002:2). Based on the ICF definition of disability, over a billion people worldwide and 19% of the Ugandan population are estim...

Political intervention into markets can take a nearly endless number of forms. During the latter part of the twentieth century, there was a widely shared sense that governments should decrease their role in the economy. Still, there were important variations in this trend. In response to onerous banking crises, countries chose policies that varied dramatically between rescuing insolvent banks (...

Kurt Becker, Utah State University Kurt Becker is a Professor and the Department Head of Engineering and Technology Education. He is the Co-Principal Investigator for the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded National Center for Engineering and Technology Education and Principal Investigator for the NSF funded project: Communities of Effective Practice: A professional STEM Development Partne...

This paper provides a new estimation of an international poverty line based on a Bayesian approach. We found that the official poverty lines of the poorest countries are related to the countries’ mean consumption level. This new philosophy is to be compared to the previous assumptions made by the World Bank in favour of an absolute poverty line. We propose a new international poverty line at $1...

If Africa continues on the Cairo path at the current pace, can it achieve the Millennium Development Goals and if so, what progress has been made to address population aspects that are relevant for the achievement of these goals since Cairo? The answer to the first part of the question is almost certainly no unless a majority of African countries swiftly and significantly scale up action (Inter...

The Workshop was organised by Mexico’s Comisión Nacional Forestal (CONAFOR) and the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), and co-organised by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Intercooperation (Switzerland), the United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group and United States Agency for International Development (USA...

I am very pleased to attend the International Seminar on the Application of Credit Information Products in Managing Credit Risks of Commercial Banks. First, on behalf of the People’s Bank of China, I would like to express gratitude to our co-sponsor of this seminar, the International Finance Corporation. Also, I would like to extend warmest welcome and gratitude to experts from abroad countries...

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