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Reflections on Agricultural and Rural Development – Policies and Performance in Asia
India — one of many countries with second waves. Initial optimistic assessment revised following a 40-day national lockdown in March 2020 and return of millions of migrants
Health and Nutrition of India’s Labour Force and COVID-19 Challenges
Can the “post-COVID-19 normal” emerge better for India’s food supply and demand management, with a clear goal of zero hunger? Presently contributing one-third of the global undernutrition burden, a daunting challenge that the country must overcome now is of resuming broader based economic growth with a healthy labour force.
Do We Have the Right Data? Towards Better Measurement of High Priority Indicators to Eradicate Hunger and Assure Healthy Food for all.
The share of official development assistance (ODA) going to global programs has increased considerably during the past decade while overall ODA has stagnated at about $45 million annually (Ferroni and Mody, p. 19). According to Hewitt, Morrissey, and te Veldt, spending on international public goods represented 5.0% of overall ODA in 1980-82, 6.8% in 1990-92, […]
This paper is a collaborative effort by Uma Lele, Ronald Ridker, and Jagadish Upadhyay. Major substantive inputs were also provided by Richard Skolnik and many others. Uma Lele is Senior Advisor to the World Bank’s Operations Evaluation Department, and the other co-authors are consultants to the Secretariat of the International Task Force on Global Public […]
Global Health Programs, Millennium Development Goals, and the World Bank’s Role
The health sector has replaced environment at the forefront of global partnerships in terms of resource mobilization. A combination of factors has put global health issues, especially communicable diseases, on a “war footing.” These include increased awareness of cross-border spillovers from globalization; the technological, communication and transport revolutions; the ethical imperative of alleviating the socio-economic […]
