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Policy Research Working Paper 4310 #### **Abstract** The need for land-related investment to ensure sustainable land management and increase productivity of land use is widely recognized. However, there is little rigorous evidence on the effects of property rights for increasing agricultural productivity and contributing toward poverty reduction in Africa. Whether and by how much overlapping property rights reduce investment incentives, and the scope for policies to counter such disincentives, are thus important policy issues. Using information on parcels under ownership and usufruct by the same household from a nationally representative survey in Uganda, the authors find significant disincentives associated with overlapping property rights on short and long-term investments. The paper combines this result with information on crop productivity to obtain a rough estimate of the magnitudes involved. The authors make suggestions on ways to eliminate such inefficiencies. This paper—a product of the Sustainable Rural and Urban Development Team, Development Research Group—is part of a larger effort in the group to assess the impact of land policies. Policy Research Working Papers are also posted on the Web at http://econ.worldbank.org. The author may be contacted at kdeininger@worldbank.org. _The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage
**The World Bank** Costa Rica Results in Education (CORE) (P181174) Procurement Prior Review Thresholds detailed in Annex I of the Bank’s Procurement Procedure are to be observed. The Project will use the Systematic Tracking of Exchanges in Procurement (STEP) to plan, record, clear and track procurement transactions for the Project. An initial Procurement Plan has been prepared by the MEP in accordance with the results provided by the PPSD, including a timeline for implementation. **C. Legal Operational Policies** **D. Environmental and Social** 53. The Project will finance consulting services to design, develop and implement educational tools, information systems, platforms and other software, as well as to develop assessments, policies, plans and strategies for the educational sector. The Project will also finance the equipping of selected schools with internet connections and hardware (e.g., notebooks, tablets, smart boards, projectors, headphones, robotics, computational kits). The Project will not finance any type of civil works. The environmental and social risk rating is classified as Moderate. The Project is expected to have mostly positive social impacts through improved education quality, inclusion, and resilience. Impacts on vulnerable and systematically excluded groups are expected to be positive with limited negative social effects. **V.** **GRIEVANCE REDRESS SERVICES** 54.
Economics of Disasters and Climate Change Fig. 4 Location of slum areas and locations with urban expansion in the city of HCMC. Source: (PUMA 2013) We then overlay this flood layer with the population density data set, to estimate the number of people per population grid cell that are exposed to floods. As the population density data set is at a lower resolution (1 km) than the flood data (90 m), we estimate the percentage of the population grid cell which is flooded, and multiply this percentage by the population in that grid cell. For instance, if a population grid cell has 500 people, and 10% of that cell is flooded (based on the flood data), then we estimate 50 people to be exposed to floods in that cell. In doing so, we assume that the population is evenly distributed within a grid cell. We run this analysis for all the scenarios presented in Table 2, and aggregate our results at the district level to estimate the number of people affected. To include the poverty dimension, we use the poverty headcount rate in each district to estimate the percentage of poor people exposed. For instance, if 20,000 people are exposed
large-scale gold mines in Ghana. We find that a new large-scale gold mine changes economic outcomes, such as access to employment and cash earnings. In addition, it raises local wages and expenditure on housing and energy. An important welfare indicator in developing countries is infant mortality, and we note a large and significant decrease in mortality rates among young children, at both the local and district levels. [1] We hypothesize that increased access to prenatal care is one of the mechanisms behind the increased survival rate. 1 In the 2010 Ghana population census average district size is 112,000 3
Economics of Disasters and Climate Change Fig. 2 Flood maps showing inundation depth (cm) in case of a: (a) 10-year return period flood under current conditions, (b) 25-year return period flood under current conditions; (c) 50-year return period flood under current conditions; (d) 10-year return period flood given a 30 cm sea level rise; (e) 25-year return period flood given a 30 cm sea level rise; and (f) 50-year return period flood given a 30 cm sea level rise Local-Level Data on Urban Areas and Potential Slums in Ho Chi Minh City The spatial socioeconomic data set used for HCMC is a data set of potential slum areas from 2000 to 2010, from the Platform for Urban Management and Analysis (PUMA), a city-level data set developed by the World Bank (World Bank 2015).This data was collected via satellite in the year 2012, through a combination of visual interpretation of various sources and vintages of imagery. To guide the identification of slums, previous work has provided information on the appearance and geographical extent of slums in HCMC. Surveys of poverty in the city find the appearance of slums in HCMC to be characterized as densely built small households and shelters that
_Note:_ In panel A, active is status of mine in birth year; in panel B, active is active status of mine in survey year. Robust standard errors clustered at the DHS cluster level in parentheses. All regressions control for year and district fixed effects, urban dummy, age, and years of education. *** p<0.01, **p<0.05, *p<0.1. OLS = ordinary least squares. An active mine is associated with a decrease in cough among children under age five (panel B of table 5), and children are also (insignificantly) more likely to have a health card. An active mine is associated with insignificant decreases in the anthropometrics measures (World Health Organization measures in standard deviations), such as height-for-age and weight-for-age. However, the standard errors for these coefficients are very large relative to the estimated coefficients, which is why the effects are imprecisely estimated. **5.3 Spatial heterogeneity of results** Thus far we have used a cutoff distance of 20 km. Panel A of figure 4 shows that the largest treatment effect for services for women is found within 10 km of a mine, with an 8 percentage point increase in the probability that a woman works in the service sector. This is equivalent to a
reduce the time lag it takes to deliver support given the evolution over the last five years. The duration of C4N will be 24 months (2 years) whereas SBCC will be phased throughout the implementation of the project. 32. A total of 2,860 refugees - including student refugees in Djibouti-Ville will benefit from the C4N. This support, which proved critical for children from rural vulnerable households during covid-19, will help refugee children remain in school longer and improve their educational outcomes, addressing barriers such as school fees and additional basic costs. 33. **The C4N will cover all six regions with beneficiary coverage in each region determined based on a** **predetermined set of targeting criteria.** In accordance with the principle of convergence which the project promotes, efforts will be made to achieve overlap of C4N and SBCC interventions with component 2 interventions in Dikhil by maximizing beneficiary coverage in the region. A combination of geographical targeting, categorical targeting, ProxyMeans Targeting (PMT) and community-based targeting (CBT) mechanisms will be used in a complementary way to identify beneficiaries and minimize exclusion and inclusion errors that may arise from inadequate coverage of the social registry and biases that result from community beneficiary identification. The
high impact intensity and others have none. The first and second moments of the spatial impact distribution also change over time: The median landfall location shifts eastward from northern Odisha to the Bangladesh/West Bengal border area, while locational variance increases markedly after 1960. We also consider the overall distribution of impacts during the 140-year period covered by our database. Despite pronounced period-to-period shifts in impact locations, the overall distribution is far from uniform. We find the highest impact zones in northern Odisha and the Sundarbans region of West Bengal, with somewhat lower impacts in the zone between those two areas and a pattern of decline from the high-impact zones to the southern coastline boundaries of Odisha and Bangladesh. We should note that these boundary results are not artifacts of our methodology: We have also incorporated cyclone strikes in proximate areas south of the end points. Finally, despite the pronounced bimodality of the spatial distribution, we also find significant variation within zones. For example (Figure 8c), western coastal Bangladesh, generally a mid-impact zone, also has significant stretches of coast that have very low historical impacts. To summarize, our focal coastline area has witnessed highly-varied long- and short-term distributions of cyclonic storm
Several important questions can be addressed with these data. The first relates to locational stability: What are the permanent and transient components of household and community responses to long- and short-run cyclone clustering, and to the power of recent cyclones? Outright relocation will be part of the response, but so will relocation of prime-age household members to less-impacted inland areas where their earnings and residence will offer financial insurance and a potential safe harbor from future cyclones. The size and speed of the response will depend critically on expectations about future cyclone strikes, which can be inferred from the highly varied data in our cyclone panel. Other questions of interest can also be explored once cyclone-related controls are introduced. For example, how much coastal outmigration reflects the “pull” of urban opportunities, and how much reflects the “push” of cyclone-related hazards? How do disaster mitigation policies affect responses to these hazards? Some coastal zones in our study area invest significant resources in damage prevention via polder construction and other measures, while others offer compensation once cyclone-related damage has occurred. Incorporation of controls from our cyclone panel database may permit more accurate estimation of the timing and magnitude of responses to these
since FY 1998, and all AAA since FY 2000. Using the appropriate thematic codes, we calculate total Bank lending and AAA by country and environmental theme. Our five environmental indicators and the institutional problem indicator are constructed to match the corresponding thematic categories in the project database. The seventh thematic 9
works. The environmental and social risk rating is classified as Moderate. The Project is expected to have mostly positive social impacts through improved education quality, inclusion, and resilience. Impacts on vulnerable and systematically excluded groups are expected to be positive with limited negative social effects. **V.** **GRIEVANCE REDRESS SERVICES** 54. _**Grievance Redress**_ . Communities and individuals who believe that they are adversely affected by a project supported by the World Bank may submit complaints to existing project-level grievance mechanisms or the Bank’s Grievance Redress Service (GRS). The GRS ensures that complaints received are promptly reviewed in order to address project-related concerns. Project affected communities and individuals may submit their complaint to the Bank’s independent Accountability Mechanism (AM). The AM houses the Inspection Panel, which determines whether harm occurred, or could occur, as a result of Bank non-compliance with its policies and procedures, and the Dispute Resolution Service, which provides communities and borrowers with the opportunity to address complaints through dispute resolution. Complaints may be submitted to the AM at any time after concerns have been brought directly to the attention of Bank Management and after Management has been given an opportunity to respond. For information on how to submit [complaints
a reliable, accurate, and timely manner; and (c) project assets will be appropriately safeguarded. 75. **Based on the assessment conducted, the FM risk is rated moderate.** Project arrangements will rely on the existing public FM system at the IAs and the districts, which is adequate. The IAs have experience managing World Bank-financed operations and have mostly complied with key FM deliverables. However, the following potential risks are identified that relate to all the IAs, unless otherwise specified: (a) the Rwanda Feeder Roads Development Project (P126498), implemented by RTDA and Phase I of Jya Mbere under MINEMA have experienced challenges, including low budget execution, and qualified audit opinions on the achievement of value for money; (b) inadequate preparation of the AWPB, which could lead to errors in financial reporting and potential misallocation of expenditure; (c) delayed and/or poor-quality financial reporting; (d) staff capacity constraints; (e) poor planning, budgeting and budget monitoring systems; (f) possible ineligible expenditure due to potential BRD non-compliance with the MG manual guidelines; (g) inadequate and delayed implementation of internal and external audit recommendations; and (h) lack of automated accounting system at BRD. 76. **FM risk mitigating measures include** : (a) MINEMA will update the FM guidelines in
we use a cutoff distance of 20 km, we assume there is little economic footprint beyond that distance. Of course, any such distance is arbitrarily chosen, which is why we try different specifications to explore the spatial heterogeneity by varying this distance (using 10 km, 20 km, through 50 km) as well as a spatial lag structure (using 0 to 10 km, 10 to 20 km, through 40 to 50 km distance bins). [4] Second, we collapse the DHS mining data at the district level. [5] The number of districts has changed over time in Ghana, because districts with high population growth have been split into smaller districts. To avoid endogeneity concerns, we use the baseline number of districts that existed at the start of our analysis period, which are 137. Eleven of these districts have industrial mining. Because some mines are close to district boundaries, we additionally test whether there is an effect in neighboring districts. **3.1 Resource data** The Raw Materials Data are from InterraRMG (2013). The data set contains information on past or current industrial mines. All mines have information on annual production volumes, ownership structure, and GPS coordinates on location. We complete this data with exact
project as a whole. MINEMA conducted public and stakeholder consultations across the project target areas to gather feedback on the proposed activities, address concerns, and explore ideas to mitigate potential adverse impacts on socio-economic activities and livelihoods. The project’s stakeholder engagement plan, built on inclusive consultations, incorporates a comprehensive grievance redress mechanism (GRM) that provides stakeholders with accessible channels to resolve project-related grievances and complaints promptly. **B. Fiduciary** **Financial Management (FM)** 74. **An FM assessment was carried out for the project in accordance with the World Bank policy and directives** **on Investment Project Financing (IPF).** The assessment was carried out on the IAs – MINEMA, RTDA, BRD, BDF and the six districts – during project preparation to determine whether they have acceptable FM arrangements, which will ensure that: (a) funds are used for the intended purposes in an effective, efficient and economical way; (b) financial reports will be prepared in a reliable, accurate, and timely manner; and (c) project assets will be appropriately safeguarded. 75. **Based on the assessment conducted, the FM risk is rated moderate.** Project arrangements will rely on the existing public FM system at the IAs and the districts, which is adequate. The IAs have experience managing
at national-level, but notes that examining how these dynamics is distributed spatially within the country is still not possible (Rozenberg and Hallegatte 2016). Nonetheless, as a stress test, a number of papers in the field have employed the same strategy we follow in this paper, of using current socio-economic characteristics to examine potential future trends, which is considered standard practice (Hirabayashi et al. 2013; Koks et al. 2015; Winsemius et al. 2015). 3 While we considered other metrics of poverty (e.g. the Multi-dimensional Poverty Index), the only available data that was spatially explicit was the headcount and headcount rate, which we use for the analysis. This headcount rate uses an income definition of poverty, with those earning less than $1.25 USD per day classified as poor.
IGAs, small businesses and** **cooperatives all contribute to economic empowerment and development in target areas.** By aligning Sub-component 2.2 activities with the socio-economic infrastructure and productive facilities developed under Sub-component 2.1, the project aims to maximize productivity, improve market access, and bolster local economies. Together, these efforts will foster inclusive growth and resilience by ensuring that IGAs benefit from essential infrastructure, such as grain mills, seed centers, other productive facilities and local markets, creating a supportive environment that amplifies the economic impact across communities. The project will strengthen private sector linkages, drawing from good practices identified in the Yemen Emergency Crisis Response Program (ECRP) (2016-2022) (P159053), which used a community-driven approach to sector and business selection, and provided support to SMEs and MSMEs to finance productive investments and support financial inclusion for vulnerable communities. The World Bank’s Private Sector for Refugees (PS4R) initiative also offers good practice on how to create mutually beneficial relationships between the private sector and refugee communities on entrepreneurship, employment, investment, and products and services [23] . 52. **Technical expertise will be mobilized to identify key opportunities and effective strategies for catalyzing local** **economic initiatives** . This expertise will provide specialized guidance and advice, ensuring the
provinces combined contribute the rest. By contrast, agriculture is high in labor intensity (24 percent of total employment) but with low productivity (the contribution to GDP was 3.4 percent in 2021). [7] 4. **Zambia’s economy and population are highly vulnerable to climate change.** The country’s dependence on rainfed agriculture, which employs two-thirds of the workforce, and on hydropower makes it particularly vulnerable to climate shocks, threatening food production, electricity supply, and economic growth. While the country experiences low exposure to natural disaster risks in general, resilience is hindered by social vulnerability. Adverse impacts of climate change include increased frequency and severity of seasonal droughts, higher temperatures, flash floods, occasional dry spells, and changes in the growing season. In agriculture, the key risk stemming from climate change is the projected lower maize yields, as this is the country’s staple crop. Zambia is currently experiencing drought conditions in 84 of its 116 1 Zamstats.gov.zm. 2 Zambia Statistics Agency. 2023. _Highlights of the 2022 Poverty Assessment in Zambia_ . World Bank. 2023. _Zambia Gender Assessment_ . 3 Zambia: Selected Issues, IMF, 2023. 4 2022 Census of Population and Housing, GRZ 2023. 5 According to the 2021 Labour Force Survey Report by Zamstat, the
activities to be implemented under DRDIP II in the 13 refugee settlements, 12 RHDs, refugee transit districts, and selected secondary cities. 82. **The potential E&S risks that may arise from component 1 civil works may include:** noise, dust, soil, water pollution, construction debris, sedimentation and deposition of fine materials in downstream watercourses during construction; soil and water pollution due to construction and occupational hazards. Some of the project activities under component 2 on INRM will also have positive environmental impacts. 83. **There are risks to sensitive ecosystems and biodiversity hotspots in the western and south-western RHDs.** The western region of the project falls within the Albertine Rift valley, considered one of the global biodiversity hotspots, with many tropical high forests remaining but under high pressure. The western region has a dense network of national parks, wildlife reserves, and natural forests. Kyangwali, Rwamwanja, and Kiryandongo refugee settlements are situated near Bugoma Central Forest Reserve, Katonga Wildlife Reserve, and Kibeka Central Forest Reserve, which have already been encroached upon. Likewise, the south-western region has Lake Nakivale and Mburo-Nakivale wetland system, which serves as a habitat for unique species of birds, animals, plants, and fish. Page 23
To construct a water-resource indicator, we draw on two sources of information. The first is an estimated geographic distribution of excess demand for water resources (surface and sub-surface) in Vörösmarty, et al. (2000). We use GIS to compute the total population residing in excess-demand areas identified by this research. The second information source is a database of deaths and injuries from floods maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED, Université Catholique de Louvain). For each of the Bank's partner countries, we calculate the sum of deaths and injuries for all recorded floods since 1960. In constructing an indicator for flood damage, we weight deaths to injuries in the ratio 50:1. Using equal weights, we combine our indicators for demand pressure and floods into a composite indicator of water-related problems. [4] We derive our indicator for environmental policy and institutional problems from two sources. The first is the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) database, which rates environmental policies and institutions on a numerical scale of 1 (the lowest) to 6. For this exercise, we reverse the scaling (1 becomes the highest) and normalize the ratings so that countries with the greatest problems score
will be served by health centers, resulting in 50 maternal lives saved per year and a 15 percent reduction in other causes of morbidity (baseline morbidity of 19 percent). [28] The NPV of these investments is estimated at US$1.3 million at a 12 percent discount rate, with an ERR of 29 percent. 61. _Communal WASH_ investments reduce morbidity from diarrhea and other waterborne diseases, along with time and cost savings to access water. The analysis assumes the mortality rate due to unsafe water will reduce by 10 percent (from 25 deaths per 100,000 to 22.5), along with time savings of two hours per week per beneficiary household in accessing clean water and US$20 in annual cost savings per household (CEIC data). The NPV of these WASH investments is estimated at US$1.1 million at a 12 percent discount rate, with an ERR of 28 percent. 62. Additional assumptions used in the analysis for this component include: (a) value of a statistical life: US$2,394; [29] and (b) annual O&M costs of five percent of total investment value. [30] 63. The results of the analysis for this component and the sensitivity analysis are summarized in the tables below: **Table 6: NPV and ERR