The characterization of pro-poor growth, including the sources through which the poor benefit from public interventions, remains a topic of debate in the current development literature. This paper examines the impact of a range of policies across villages in rural Bangladesh (spanning credit and infrastructure expansion, as well as agricultural output pricing) not only on different sources of i...

This study focuses this study surveying the impact of organization structure on employees' job satisfaction of agricultural bank in Ardebil province. Data has collected from 105 employees of agricultural bank in Ardabil Province by two questionnaires with study of variables. Organizational structure Questionnaire, an18 item scale according to Robins (2000) theory and A Structured, closedended q...

Egerton University. This report was prepared with financial support from the World Bank, Washington DC. We also acknowledge the long-term capacity building support by USAID/Kenya for the Tegemeo Agricultural Monitoring and Policy Analysis (TAMPA) Project, under which most of the data and background knowledge for the analysis in this study was generated.

This study employs a semi-parametric Cox proportional hazard model to study the relationship between survival time and bank-specific determinants of failure of commercial and agricultural banks during the recent recessionary period. Results indicate that non-performing consumer and commercial loans have seriously impaired banks‟ financial health and survival.

This meeting was embedded within the prestigious Prince Mahidol Award Conference series. At the same time, the 1 st Global Conference on Regional Surveillance Networks, the Centennial Commemoration of the Rockefeller Foundation and many specific side meetings, were held. In total, there were 966 invited participants from 73 countries, representing academics, governments (including public health...

It has been suggested that lower rates of granivory in South American warm deserts compared to their North American counterparts arose from a reduction of seed reserves in the former owing to the extinction of argyrolagid marsupials. We measured seed reserves in two habitats of the central Monte Desert in an attempt to detect such seed decline, but to no avail. After moderate rainfall, maximum ...

Drawing from the encouragement of Prof. Norman Uphoff to start SRI in Kenya, the first meeting to plan and introduce SRI was held at the Mwea Irrigation Scheme in July 2009, organized by Prof. Bancy Mati of JKUAT and Markus Moeller (then the Irrigation Specialist at the World Bank office in Kenya). The two drew together some like-minded individuals to form a collaborative team comprised of staf...

Following the global food crisis of the early 1970s, the World Bank has placed a priority on funding agriculture and rural development projects. These projects have been funded with a view to raising the productivity of low-income groups. Projects aimed at increasing the incomes of rural poor must clearly identify the target group and be designed so that they will benefit directly. Some of t...