Reaching the Rural Poor : A Renewed Strategy for Rural Development

"From Vision to Action", the Bank's previous rural development strategy launched in 1997, had a decisive influence on global thinking - but disappointing results on the ground. In 2001, lending for agricultural projects was the lowes...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Publication
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:
ADB
GDP
HIV
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/08/7036682/reaching-rural-poor-renewed-strategy-rural-development
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topic ACCOUNTABILITY
ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME
ADB
AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
AGRICULTURAL FINANCE
AGRICULTURAL GROWTH
AGRICULTURAL INPUTS
AGRICULTURAL POLICIES
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
BANK LENDING
CAPACITY BUILDING
CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS
CLIMATE CHANGE
COMMERCIAL BANK
COMMERCIAL BANKS
COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
COMPETITIVENESS
COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
CONSUMER CHOICE
CROP YIELDS
DECENTRALIZATION PROCESS
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS
DEVELOPMENT POLICIES
DEVELOPMENT POLICY
DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
DISSEMINATION
DIVERSIFICATION
DONOR AGENCIES
ECONOMIC COOPERATION
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC REFORM
ECONOMIES OF SCALE
EMPLOYMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
EQUAL ACCESS
ETHNIC MINORITIES
EXPORTS
FARMER
FARMERS
FARMING SYSTEMS
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
FINANCIAL RISK
FOOD CHAIN
FOOD CROP
FOOD POLICY
FOOD PRODUCTS
FOOD SAFETY
FOOD SUMMIT
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
FUTURE GROWTH
GDP
GENDER EQUITY
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
GLOBAL MARKETS
GLOBAL POLICY
GOOD GOVERNANCE
GRAIN MARKETING
GREEN REVOLUTION
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
HEALTH PROBLEMS
HIV
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
HUMAN HEALTH
HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS
IMPORT QUOTAS
INCIDENCE OF POVERTY
INCOME GENERATION
INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS
INFORMATION SYSTEM
INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
INTEREST RATES
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION
IRRIGATION
LAND DISTRIBUTION
LAND REFORM
LEGAL STATUS
LEGISLATION
LIVELIHOOD STRATEGIES
LIVING STANDARDS
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
MACROECONOMIC POLICY
MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
MARKET FAILURES
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
MULTILATERAL TRADE
NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS
NATIONAL LEVEL
NATURAL RESOURCE
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
NATURAL RESOURCES
NUMBER OF PEOPLE
OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
PESTICIDES
POLICY CHANGE
POLICY DIALOGUE
POLICY RESEARCH
POOR COUNTRIES
POOR FARMERS
POOR RURAL HOUSEHOLDS
PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS
POST-HARVEST LOSSES
POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION
POVERTY ALLEVIATION
POVERTY ASSESSMENT
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY
POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER
PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
PROFIT MARGINS
PROGRESS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY
PUBLIC SERVICES
QUALITY ASSURANCE
QUALITY CONTROL
REGIONAL ACTION
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS
REGIONAL STRATEGIES
REGIONAL STRATEGY
REGULATORY SYSTEMS
RURAL AREAS
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
RURAL DWELLERS
RURAL ECONOMIC GROWTH
RURAL ECONOMY
RURAL ENTREPRENEURS
RURAL FINANCE
RURAL FINANCIAL SERVICES
RURAL GROWTH
RURAL INCOMES
RURAL INHABITANTS
RURAL INVESTMENT
RURAL PEOPLE
RURAL POOR
RURAL POPULATION
RURAL POVERTY REDUCTION
RURAL PRODUCERS
RURAL RESIDENTS
RURAL SECTORS
RURAL STRATEGY
RURAL TRANSPORT
RURAL WOMEN
SAFETY NETS
SANITATION
SERVICE PROVIDERS
SERVICE PROVISION
SMALL FARMERS
SMALL LOANS
spellingShingle ACCOUNTABILITY
ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME
ADB
AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
AGRICULTURAL FINANCE
AGRICULTURAL GROWTH
AGRICULTURAL INPUTS
AGRICULTURAL POLICIES
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
BANK LENDING
CAPACITY BUILDING
CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS
CLIMATE CHANGE
COMMERCIAL BANK
COMMERCIAL BANKS
COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
COMPETITIVENESS
COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
CONSUMER CHOICE
CROP YIELDS
DECENTRALIZATION PROCESS
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS
DEVELOPMENT POLICIES
DEVELOPMENT POLICY
DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
DISSEMINATION
DIVERSIFICATION
DONOR AGENCIES
ECONOMIC COOPERATION
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC REFORM
ECONOMIES OF SCALE
EMPLOYMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
EQUAL ACCESS
ETHNIC MINORITIES
EXPORTS
FARMER
FARMERS
FARMING SYSTEMS
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
FINANCIAL RISK
FOOD CHAIN
FOOD CROP
FOOD POLICY
FOOD PRODUCTS
FOOD SAFETY
FOOD SUMMIT
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
FUTURE GROWTH
GDP
GENDER EQUITY
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
GLOBAL MARKETS
GLOBAL POLICY
GOOD GOVERNANCE
GRAIN MARKETING
GREEN REVOLUTION
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
HEALTH PROBLEMS
HIV
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
HUMAN HEALTH
HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS
IMPORT QUOTAS
INCIDENCE OF POVERTY
INCOME GENERATION
INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS
INFORMATION SYSTEM
INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
INTEREST RATES
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION
IRRIGATION
LAND DISTRIBUTION
LAND REFORM
LEGAL STATUS
LEGISLATION
LIVELIHOOD STRATEGIES
LIVING STANDARDS
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
MACROECONOMIC POLICY
MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
MARKET FAILURES
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
MULTILATERAL TRADE
NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS
NATIONAL LEVEL
NATURAL RESOURCE
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
NATURAL RESOURCES
NUMBER OF PEOPLE
OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
PESTICIDES
POLICY CHANGE
POLICY DIALOGUE
POLICY RESEARCH
POOR COUNTRIES
POOR FARMERS
POOR RURAL HOUSEHOLDS
PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS
POST-HARVEST LOSSES
POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION
POVERTY ALLEVIATION
POVERTY ASSESSMENT
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY
POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER
PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
PROFIT MARGINS
PROGRESS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY
PUBLIC SERVICES
QUALITY ASSURANCE
QUALITY CONTROL
REGIONAL ACTION
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS
REGIONAL STRATEGIES
REGIONAL STRATEGY
REGULATORY SYSTEMS
RURAL AREAS
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
RURAL DWELLERS
RURAL ECONOMIC GROWTH
RURAL ECONOMY
RURAL ENTREPRENEURS
RURAL FINANCE
RURAL FINANCIAL SERVICES
RURAL GROWTH
RURAL INCOMES
RURAL INHABITANTS
RURAL INVESTMENT
RURAL PEOPLE
RURAL POOR
RURAL POPULATION
RURAL POVERTY REDUCTION
RURAL PRODUCERS
RURAL RESIDENTS
RURAL SECTORS
RURAL STRATEGY
RURAL TRANSPORT
RURAL WOMEN
SAFETY NETS
SANITATION
SERVICE PROVIDERS
SERVICE PROVISION
SMALL FARMERS
SMALL LOANS
World Bank
Reaching the Rural Poor : A Renewed Strategy for Rural Development
description "From Vision to Action", the Bank's previous rural development strategy launched in 1997, had a decisive influence on global thinking - but disappointing results on the ground. In 2001, lending for agricultural projects was the lowest in the Bank's history. The new strategy is results oriented: "Reaching the Rural Poor" stresses practice, implementation, monitoring, and empowerment of the people it is designed to help. This strategy responds to changes in: the global environment; in client countries; and, in the Bank, starting with the development of regional action plans, and extensive consultations at the regional level. It also reflects, and reinforces the Bank's commitment to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals to increase rural incomes, and broaden opportunities for rural people. The key features of this strategy are to: focus on the rural poor; foster broad-based economic growth; address rural areas comprehensively; forge alliances of all stakeholders; and, address the impact of global developments on client countries. In this capacity, support for better agricultural, and trade policies, should be achieved through increased advocacy for trade liberalization, by mainstreaming agricultural trade liberalization, and trade-capacity development in the Bank's country assistance, and operations; and, by facilitating capacity building through technical assistance in the areas of standards, and sanitary and phytosanitary regulations.
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title Reaching the Rural Poor : A Renewed Strategy for Rural Development
title_short Reaching the Rural Poor : A Renewed Strategy for Rural Development
title_full Reaching the Rural Poor : A Renewed Strategy for Rural Development
title_fullStr Reaching the Rural Poor : A Renewed Strategy for Rural Development
title_full_unstemmed Reaching the Rural Poor : A Renewed Strategy for Rural Development
title_sort reaching the rural poor : a renewed strategy for rural development
publisher Washington, DC
publishDate 2013
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/08/7036682/reaching-rural-poor-renewed-strategy-rural-development
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14084
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spelling okr-10986-140842022-08-23T13:54:28Z Reaching the Rural Poor : A Renewed Strategy for Rural Development World Bank ACCOUNTABILITY ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME ADB AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AGRICULTURAL FINANCE AGRICULTURAL GROWTH AGRICULTURAL INPUTS AGRICULTURAL POLICIES AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AGRICULTURAL SECTOR BANK LENDING CAPACITY BUILDING CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS CLIMATE CHANGE COMMERCIAL BANK COMMERCIAL BANKS COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPETITIVENESS COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK CONSUMER CHOICE CROP YIELDS DECENTRALIZATION PROCESS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT AGENCY DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS DEVELOPMENT POLICIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY DISSEMINATION DIVERSIFICATION DONOR AGENCIES ECONOMIC COOPERATION ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REFORM ECONOMIES OF SCALE EMPLOYMENT ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION EQUAL ACCESS ETHNIC MINORITIES EXPORTS FARMER FARMERS FARMING SYSTEMS FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS FINANCIAL RISK FOOD CHAIN FOOD CROP FOOD POLICY FOOD PRODUCTS FOOD SAFETY FOOD SUMMIT FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FUTURE GROWTH GDP GENDER EQUITY GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT GLOBAL MARKETS GLOBAL POLICY GOOD GOVERNANCE GRAIN MARKETING GREEN REVOLUTION GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT HEALTH PROBLEMS HIV HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN HEALTH HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS IMPORT QUOTAS INCIDENCE OF POVERTY INCOME GENERATION INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS INFORMATION SYSTEM INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTEREST RATES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL TRADE INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION IRRIGATION LAND DISTRIBUTION LAND REFORM LEGAL STATUS LEGISLATION LIVELIHOOD STRATEGIES LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL GOVERNMENTS MACROECONOMIC POLICY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS MARKET FAILURES MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS MULTILATERAL TRADE NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS NATIONAL LEVEL NATURAL RESOURCE NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT NATURAL RESOURCES NUMBER OF PEOPLE OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PESTICIDES POLICY CHANGE POLICY DIALOGUE POLICY RESEARCH POOR COUNTRIES POOR FARMERS POOR RURAL HOUSEHOLDS PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS POST-HARVEST LOSSES POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY ASSESSMENT POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER PRODUCTION SYSTEMS PROFIT MARGINS PROGRESS PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY PUBLIC SERVICES QUALITY ASSURANCE QUALITY CONTROL REGIONAL ACTION REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS REGIONAL STRATEGIES REGIONAL STRATEGY REGULATORY SYSTEMS RURAL AREAS RURAL DEVELOPMENT RURAL DWELLERS RURAL ECONOMIC GROWTH RURAL ECONOMY RURAL ENTREPRENEURS RURAL FINANCE RURAL FINANCIAL SERVICES RURAL GROWTH RURAL INCOMES RURAL INHABITANTS RURAL INVESTMENT RURAL PEOPLE RURAL POOR RURAL POPULATION RURAL POVERTY REDUCTION RURAL PRODUCERS RURAL RESIDENTS RURAL SECTORS RURAL STRATEGY RURAL TRANSPORT RURAL WOMEN SAFETY NETS SANITATION SERVICE PROVIDERS SERVICE PROVISION SMALL FARMERS SMALL LOANS "From Vision to Action", the Bank's previous rural development strategy launched in 1997, had a decisive influence on global thinking - but disappointing results on the ground. In 2001, lending for agricultural projects was the lowest in the Bank's history. The new strategy is results oriented: "Reaching the Rural Poor" stresses practice, implementation, monitoring, and empowerment of the people it is designed to help. This strategy responds to changes in: the global environment; in client countries; and, in the Bank, starting with the development of regional action plans, and extensive consultations at the regional level. It also reflects, and reinforces the Bank's commitment to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals to increase rural incomes, and broaden opportunities for rural people. The key features of this strategy are to: focus on the rural poor; foster broad-based economic growth; address rural areas comprehensively; forge alliances of all stakeholders; and, address the impact of global developments on client countries. In this capacity, support for better agricultural, and trade policies, should be achieved through increased advocacy for trade liberalization, by mainstreaming agricultural trade liberalization, and trade-capacity development in the Bank's country assistance, and operations; and, by facilitating capacity building through technical assistance in the areas of standards, and sanitary and phytosanitary regulations. 2013-06-20T19:23:23Z 2013-06-20T19:23:23Z 2003-08 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/08/7036682/reaching-rural-poor-renewed-strategy-rural-development 0-8213-5459-0 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14084 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Publication Publications & Research :: Publication