“Beyond the Invisible Hand” – a sign of things to come at the World Bank?

Untapped resources are hard to come by in the realm of international development. Migrant remittances, however, represent a relatively unexploited resource bank for developing countries. Still, researchers often debate the degree to which migrant remittances actually incite community development in practice. I rekindle the this theoretical discussion by comparing the development effects of household remittances with investments made through the remittance-channeling program 3×1 para migrantes in Guanajuato, Mexico. Regression analysis demonstrates that household remittances repress development outcomes across Guanajuato's 46 municipalities, while remittances invested through the 3×1 program have a positive effect on indicators of municipal wellbeing, including healthcare, education, and income. To my knowledge, this is the first attempt to systematically compare the development effects of household remittances with the development outcomes of remittances transferred through a government-supported program like 3×1 para migrantes. This research has meaningful implications for policy makers in migrant-sending regions around the world as well as agents of international development such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

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Recognizing the "Invisible" Women in Development, The World Bank, 1979

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e581602012-006 ◽

1981 ◽

Keyword(s):

World Bank ◽

Women In Development ◽

The World Bank ◽

The World ◽

The Invisible

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Global Food Crisis Response Program: A World Bank initiative for food security and hunger fight (An analysis)

Scholedge International Journal of Multidisciplinary & Allied Studies ISSN 2394-336X ◽

10.19085/journal.sijmas021002 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2 (10) ◽

pp. 5

Author(s):

Nouman Keith

Keyword(s):

International Development ◽

World Bank ◽

Crisis Response ◽

Food Crisis ◽

International Bank ◽

The World Bank ◽

The World ◽

To Come ◽

Global Food ◽

Global Food Crisis

The World Bank reacted quickly to the food price crisis that began in 2008 through the Global Food Crisis Response Program (GFRP), which blends quick track financing from International Development Association (IDA) and IBRD (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) with trust asset grants to address the prompt food emergency, while urging agrarian frameworks to fabricate flexibility for what's to come. GFRP assets have as of now financed operations adding up to US$1.5 billion coming to about 40 million affected individuals in 44 nations. This paper reviews the achievement of the intended objectives which were underlining for conceptualizing the idea.

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THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF FOOD WASTE

Traditiones ◽

10.3986/traditio2020490106 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 49 (1) ◽

pp. 109-124

Author(s):

Dan Podjed ◽

Katarina Polajnar Horvat

Keyword(s):

Waste Management ◽

World Bank ◽

Food Waste ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

Human Consumption ◽

Qualitative Approaches ◽

The World Bank ◽

Household Food ◽

The World ◽

The Invisible

In recent years, food waste has become an important issue that attracts attention from scientists, consumers, and activists. According to the World Bank, one third of food produced for human consumption is wasted. In Slovenia, almost 131,800 tons of food waste were generated in 2017, or 64 kg per person on average. This article presents the findings of a study on household food waste in Slovenia and, more specifically, its capital, Ljubljana. The authors studied food waste management using a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches (i.e., a survey and an ethnographic study). These approaches were combined in order to obtain a broader picture of waste management and explain how, when, and why people “transform” food into waste.

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