 Food Price Crisis. Rising food prices can be devastating for the poor - particularly those who consume more than they produce.  Find out more about the issues and what the World Bank and other organizations are doing to address them... more | slideshow | country policies (pdf)
Related Links:  Report - Rising Food Prices in East Asia: Challenges and Policy Options
Report - Food Crisis:Policy Options and World Bank Response
Share your thoughts on the food crisis with other experts. Join the discussion: East Asia and Pacific blog |  Mongolia: Second Sustainable Livelihoods Project aims to protect the livelihoods of the rural population in Mongolia... more
Related Links: Project Documents
Rural Development in Mongolia
Mongolia website
 China: Rural-Urban Inequality.  Urbanization in China is taking place at an unprecedented pace, says latest World Bank report, with a consequent impact on rural-urban inequality. One of the issues that needs to be tackled is to ensure there is enough arable land for agriculture, given high commodity prices and rising consumption... more
Chapter 2:Â Rural-Urban Inequality in China
China Urbanizes book website |
RECENTLY APPROVED PROJECTS Cambodia: Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development (US$11.5 m). Local communities will identify state land and select poor landless families to receive land and other assistance... more Cambodia: Avian and Human Influenza Control and Preparedness Emergency (US$6 m). Grant will help Cambodia carry out its national plan to respond to avian flu threats and strengthen its health system... more Lao PDR: Khammouane Development (US$9 m). Project will help strengthen the planning processes and public financial management for better decentralized service delivery and infrastructure including irrigation... more Vietnam: Third Rural Finance (US$230 m). It aims to increase economic benefits to rural private enterprises and households by increasing their access to finance... more Vietnam: Land Administration (US$75 m). Project aims to increase access to land information services by all stakeholders through development of an improved land administration system in selected provinces... more
 | OTHER RECENT PUBLICATIONS:  Agriculture can decrease the rural-urban divide. Agricultural and rural development through investment in public goods works best to accelerate poverty reduction, says Special Focus section of the latest EAP Update... more
 Legal pluralism and equity: some reflections on land reform in Cambodia (brief). Land in Cambodia presents a case of multiple competing norms.
Download the brief (pdf)
 ? Quick Fact: Did you know that Mongolia has the lowest population density in the world at 1.6 persons per square kilometer (3 times the size of  France, but a population which is 24 times smaller) and a per capita income of about US$1,000?...  more  Â
In the next issue... Focus on Vietnam
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