2. Vision overcome poverty
enhance growth
Globalization create opportunity & hope
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3. WORLD BANK THEMES
1. The poorest countries
2. Post-conflict and fragile states
3. Middle-income countries
4. Global public goods
5. The Arab world
6. Knowledge and learning
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5. Millennium Development Goals
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
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6. IBRD The International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development
IDA The International
Development Association
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10. THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD
Purpose: RAPIDLY develop agriculture SIMULTANEOUSLY with industry
Method: “People’s communes” in mostly RURAL COMMUNITIES
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12. Result of the Great Leap Forward
1. Shortage of Food
2. Shortage of Raw Materials
3. Overproduction of Poor-Quality Goods
4. Demoralization of Peasants
And for the Chinese people?
Eighteen more years of widespread
poverty, hunger, and political and social
unrest.
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13. China After Mao:
Deng Xiaping
1978: prompts drastic
reforms after becoming the
de facto leader of the
People’s Republic of China
1979: established diplomatic
relations with the United
States of America
1981: accepted first World
Bank loan
NEED: ECONOMIC REFORM
AND INFRASTRUCTURE
DEVELOPMENT!!!
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14. The Five Pillars
1. Integrate China into the world economy
2. Reduce poverty, inequality, and social exclusion
3. Resource management and environmental challenges
4. Development of capital markets
5. Improving public and market institutions
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15. 9 percent GDP growth per year
400 million people out of poverty
3rd largest trading nation
4th largest economy
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17. The Five Pillars
1. Integrate China into the world economy
2. Reduce poverty, inequality, and social exclusion
3. Resource management and environmental challenges
4. Development of capital markets
5. Improving public and market institutions
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19. IBRD The International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development
IDA The International
Development Association
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20. more than 135 million people living on less than $1 a day
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21. Challenges of China
as a MIDDLE INCOME country
1. A growing but still weak civil society
2. Shortening of the gap between the wealthy and the poor
3. Emphasis on the economy while neglecting environmental
concerns
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22. from LENDER to CONSULTANT
the provider of economic analysis,
policy advice, technical assistance and training
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23. CHINA DEVELOPMENT
MARKETPLACE
bottom-up development IDEAS
address development CHALLENGES
mobilize social resources to REDUCE POVERTY
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24. INNOVATIVE ideas on
how to best reduce poverty
$1.17 million were awarded to
the 50 most INNOVATIVE projects
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25. Globalization: Wind Power in Pingtan Island
Using GLOBAL technology for
Clean & Cheap energy
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26. Call for a Green China
A Global Environmental Event
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27. International conferences with a unique, global, environmental
awareness-raising CULTURAL PERFORMANCE
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28. “ Today, well over 60 percent World Bank
Group-financed projects and activities
include a strong focus on the environment.”
~World Bank~
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29. The Five Pillars
1. Integrate China into the world economy
2. Reduce poverty, inequality, and social exclusion
3. Resource management and environmental challenges
4. Development of capital markets
5. Improving public and market institutions
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30. The Five Pillars
1. Integrate China into the world economy
2. Reduce poverty, inequality, and social exclusion
3. Resource management and environmental challenges
4. Development of capital markets
5. Improving public and market institutions
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31. The World Bank in
Working for A World Free of Poverty GHANA
32. GHANA
Location: West Africa
Population: 22,532,600 people (2006)
One of poorest countries in the world
GHANA
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33. The World Bank in Ghana
1. POVERTY REDUCTION and SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
2. SOLUTIONS in dealing with special CHALLENGES OF POST
CONFLICT countries
3. DISEASES and TRADE
4. GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE
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34. International Development Association (IDA)
QUICK FACTS FOR GHANA
53 years of invested time!
Provider of most of the
income to the country,
excluding the government
Holistic approach
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35. International Development Association (IDA)
QUICK FACTS FOR GHANA
About 6-7 percent economic
growth since 2005
Politically they have had
two peaceful elections
Poverty rate has dropped 23
percent in 14 years
1992 = 52 percent
2006 = 29 percent
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36. International Development Association (IDA)
QUICK FACTS FOR GHANA
They have provided money
for almost 200 cases that
directly contribute to
eradicating poverty:
1. Education 4. Water
2. Health 5. Energy
3. Roads 6. Agriculture
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37. SANITATION AND WATER
500,000 people have been provided water-giving services
50,000 people with sanitation amenities
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38. ENERGY
Akosombo and Kpong dams and power plants
Repair transmission system
Electricity access is 55 percent
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39. EDUCATION
National enrollment at 95 percent
Gender equality
Foundational education
achievement rate
Teacher training
Vocational learning
Adult literacy
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41. AGRICULTURE AND DEPLETION
Ghana’s economy: heavily
dependent on natural
resources therefore causing
major depletions
Long-term reforms
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42. COMMUNITY SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS (CSOs)
Look out for the good of the country,
like a checks and balances system
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43. OTHER IMPORTANT FACTORS….
“Public Information Center and
Development Dialogue Series,”
which meet to discuss country
issues
Challenges ahead
Improvement needed
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44. CONCLUSION
Major contributors financially
Cooperation
Holistic approach
Long-term focus
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45. The World Bank in
Working for A World Free of Poverty YEMEN
46. YEMEN (The Republic of Yemen)
Location: Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia
Population: More than 23 million people
One of the poorest countries in the world
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47. The Safe Childhood Center
The Social Fund for Development (SFD): a Yemeni development
agency established in 1997 with support from the World Bank,
bilateral donors and the government of Yemen.
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48. The Safe Childhood Center
The SFD aims to improve access to basic services:
1. Education
2. Healthcare or Health Services
3. Income generation through microfinance and
saving-service access
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49. The Safe Childhood Center
MICROFINANCING:
extending credit, usually in the form of small loans
with no collateral, to nontraditional borrowers such
as the poor in rural or undeveloped areas
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50. Education Focus
Over 50 percent of its budget
is dedicated to education.
The Social Fund for Development
(SFD) is delivering basic
education to even the most
remote corners of the country.
1. Primary school enrollment
has increased from 61 to 67
percent.
2. The goal is universal
enrollment by 2015.
3. The focus is on the number of
girls in school (whose
enrollment numbers are far
behind those of boys).
4. The SFD refurbished 8,790
classrooms.
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51. On the streets of
Sana’a, Yemen,
young AHMAD
used to spend his
Ahmad days begging.
He moved to the Safe
Childhood Center— a home for
street children under
fourteen — and now has had a
safe home and is attending
elementary school.
School officials say he has
grown cheerful and more social.
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52. Small Business Microfinancing
In 1998, with support from the World Bank through the Social Fund
for Development, the Yemeni government created the Small and
Microenterprise Development Program:
1. To provide financial and non-financial services to small and
microenterprises
2. To increase the income of the poor
3. Generate new job opportunities
4. Encourage microfinance through a number of capable Non
Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
5. Extended loans to more than 17,000 borrowers
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53. They lend to women like 47-year-old
Samira Hasan Khalid.
This mother of nine borrowed $100
to buy a billiard table to rent to the
Samira local kids.
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54. “Perhaps with the expansion
of my business, I will employ
others.”
Obeida Mansour El-Sharif
Making credit available to some
of the poorest people in Yemen is
creating innovation where once
there was despair.
Though times were “extremely hard,”
as a mother of eleven, she
obtained a loan from a microcredit
agency and bought a sewing machine;
obtained a second loan and started a
women’s wear clothing shop; and
obtained a third loan and bought a
small minibus.
Now she employs her sons to help
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55. Health Services
Promoting access to 518 water projects providing potable water to
safe water and health 1.4 million Yemenis for the first time
services is also a New health care projects—focused on involving
project priority, local communities in managing and maintaining
accounting for 24 health facilities
percent of SFD funding: Training for health workers—having served
hundreds of thousands of Yemenis
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56. Sakia Pumps
Improving the management of irrigation and drainage for all farmers
in two command areas in the Nile Delta, and thereby mainstreaming
Integrated Water Resources Management principles
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57. CHINA
YEMEN
GHANA
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