The latest edition of the World Bank's Little Green Data Book includes two new indicators on air pollution based on state-of-the art methodology to measure exposure and health impacts. Poor air qualit...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166710Fecha: 16 de junio de 2015
An estimated seven million people were killed by diseases related to indoor and outdoor air pollution alone in 2012 according to the World Health Organization. Data for Nigeria included in the newly r...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166782Fecha: 16 de junio de 2015
This story highlights the growing reach and access to the Internet is creating new types of work, offering new opportunities, and helping transform lives around the world. The World Bank Group and its...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166806Fecha: 2 de junio de 2015
Successfully alleviating poverty, protecting social gains, and promoting shared prosperity in Honduras requires an ongoing commitment to sound macroeconomic and fiscal policies. The experience of the ...
Honduras has experienced moderate economic growth in the past decade, in line with the rest of the region. Despite this growth track record, limited opportunities for decent jobs for the majority of w...
Tipo: Public Expenditure ReviewInforme#: 95648Fecha: 1 de junio de 2015Autor:
Acosta,Pablo Ariel ;
Almeida,Rita Kullberg ;
Alonso,Juan Diego ;
Calidonio Aguilar,Perla Rocio ;
Monsalve Montiel,Emma Mercedes ;
Alfaro Palominos,Pablo Francisco ;
Pena,Christine Lao
This paper, Agriculture for prosperity of rural territories in Guatemala linking the agricultural development with the prosperity of the countryside, analyzes the performance of the agricultural sect...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: AUS7583Fecha: 1 de junio de 2015Autor:
Diaz Rios,Luz Berania
Low-income consumers stand to benefit greatly from more accessible and affordable digital financial services (DFS) offerings. Indeed, evidence from consumer research in 16 markets analyzed for this pa...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 99310Fecha: 1 de junio de 2015Autor:
Mckee,Katharine ;
Kaffenberger,Michelle Anne ;
Zimmerman,Jamie Melissa
Uruguay currently stands out in Latin America for its higher per capita income, low inequality, low poverty, and virtual absence of indigence. As a proportion of the total population, the size of Urug...
Tipo: Systematic Country DiagnosticInforme#: 98620Fecha: 1 de junio de 2015
This report on the Study of social public spending and institutions in El Salvador: education, health, social protection and employment claims that development of El Salvador in the last decade has be...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 98798Fecha: 1 de junio de 2015
El Salvador's development over the past decade has been dichotomous. On the one hand, economic growth has remained persistently low, employment and labor force participation have barely increased, and...
Tipo: Public Expenditure ReviewInforme#: 95649Fecha: 1 de junio de 2015Autor:
Acosta,Pablo Ariel ;
Almeida,Rita Kullberg ;
Alonso,Juan Diego ;
Pena,Christine Lao
This report on the Study of social public expenditure and its institutions stresses that Honduras has experienced moderate economic growth in the last decade, in line with the rest of the region. Desp...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 98797Fecha: 1 de junio de 2015
El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America, and one of the most densely populated in the world. El Salvador is among the countries most affected by weather-related events and other hazards...
Tipo: Country Assistance Strategy DocumentInforme#: 95185Fecha: 26 de mayo de 2015
The new Carbon Pricing Watch compiles the latest data on formal carbon pricing initiatives around the world. Several carbon taxes and one of the world's largest emissions trading systems started in th...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166456Fecha: 26 de mayo de 2015
This story highlights the moving in the right direction, but far from reaching universal access to modern energy, doubling energy efficiency and doubling share of renewable energy in global energy mix...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166510Fecha: 18 de mayo de 2015
The world economy is not what it used to be twenty years ago. For most of the 20th century, the world economy was characterized by developed (North) countries acting as 'center' to a 'periphery' of de...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 96467Fecha: 13 de mayo de 2015Autor:
De La Torre,Augusto ;
Didier Brandao,Tatiana ;
Ize,Alain ;
Lederman,Daniel ;
Schmukler,Sergio L.
Since the end of the Civil War in 1992, El Salvador has advanced on both the social and political fronts. Despite this progress and the recent reductions in income inequality, poverty remains high, la...
Tipo: Systematic Country DiagnosticInforme#: 97718Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2015Autor:
Calvo-Gonzalez,Oscar ;
Lopez,J. Humberto
This note is a summary of a report that considers urban areas as the complement to rural areas that will allow the Plurinational State of Bolivia to achieve the goals set forth in its Patriotic Agenda...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 97834Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2015Autor:
Trohanis,Zoe Elena ;
Zaengerling,Bontje Marie ;
Sanchez-Reaza,Javier
This story highlights education in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea was hit hard by the Ebola outbreak; at the height of the epidemic, five million children were affected by school closures. Schools ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166476Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2015
Contrato de Prestación de Servicios Profesionales que celebran por una parte, el Gobierno Federal por conducto del Organismo Ejecutor que solicita el servicio, en su carácter de Ejecutor del Proyecto ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 119663Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2015
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