Despite facing more extensive climatic events and significant losses, more resilient and/or affluent communities recover faster than poor and vulnerable communities exposed to minor disasters. This st...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 78279Fecha: 28 de mayo de 2013
The ten things to know about the World Bank's work on forests includes the following headings: impact; protection; poverty reduction; restoration; opportunity; food security; transparency; integration...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 80808Fecha: 18 de mayo de 2013
This updated edition has been prepared to complement the previous guidelines issued by the World Bank that were designed to support the successful implementation of the recommendations of the world re...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 84203Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2013Autor:
Bliss, Tony ;
Breen,Jeanne M.
The World Bank has developed over the month of April 2013 a series of 5 workshops in different cities in the Dominican Republic (Santiago, Dajabón, Barahona, La Romana and Santo Domingo), with the aim...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 82407Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2013Autor:
Valiente, María del Carmen Tomé
This manual presents the objectives and procedures for application of the Education Resilience Approaches (ERA) Programs first major tool to aid in assessing resilience in education systems. The RES-...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 77685Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2013
One of the Education Resilience Approaches (ERA) programs first major tools, the Resilience in Education System (RES) 360 degree rapid assessment helps both national education institutions (e.g. Minis...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 77686Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2013
Guatemala has made tremendous strides in moving toward democracy and building institutions after a prolonged civil war, much remains to be done in generating the foundations for strong broad-based eco...
Tipo: Public Expenditure ReviewInforme#: 78000Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2013
Este informe semestral - un producto de la oficina del Economista Jefe para América Latina y el Caribe (LAC) del Banco Mundial - examina los desafíos de corto y mediano plazo a los que se enfrenta LAC...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 191428Fecha: 30 de abril de 2013Autor:
de la Torre, Augusto ;
Yeyati, Eduardo Levy ;
Pienknagura, Samuel
Twenty million people in Central America cook with biomass using open fires or rudimentary stoves. The number of people using biomass for cooking in the region will remain significant for a long time ...
Tipo: Energy StudyInforme#: 76222Fecha: 3 de abril de 2013Autor:
Wang,Xiaoping ;
Franco Salazar,Janina Andrea ;
Masera, Omar R. ;
Troncoso Torrez,Karin Susana ;
Rivera, Marta X.
This Inequality in Focus newsletter includes the following headings: The state of opportunities in South Africa: inequality among children and in the labor market; Climate change and inequality: what ...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 76979Fecha: 1 de abril de 2013Autor:
Mccarthy,Nancy ;
Lipper, Leslie ;
Ashwill,Maximillian Shen ;
Narayan,Ambar ;
Mahajan,Sandeep
Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region were bumping against capacity constraints with unemployment reaching historically low levels and economic activity hitting bottlenecks and central banks were ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 77445Fecha: 1 de abril de 2013Autor:
De La Torre,Augusto
The development objective of the Magdalena Bajo Seco Forestry Project is to reduce emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) through the reforestation and sustainable management of 3,137 ha. of land traditi...
The development objective of the Magdalena Bajo Seco Forestry Project is to reduce emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) through the reforestation and sustainable management of 3,137 ha. of land traditi...
This report brings together the results of an eight-part series of presentations by leading experts in issues directly related to microfinance institutional sustainability. It is intended for microfin...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 54252Fecha: 21 de marzo de 2013Autor:
Goldberg,Michael J. ;
Palladini,Eric
After decades of stagnation, the size of the middle class in Latin America and the Caribbean recently expanded by 50 percent from 103 million people in 2003 to 152 million (or 30 percent of the contin...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 73823Fecha: 13 de marzo de 2013Autor:
Ferreira,Francisco H. G. ;
Lopez-Calva,Luis-Felipe ;
Lugo,Maria Ana ;
Messina Granovsky,Julian S. ;
Rigolini,Iamele P. ;
Vakis,Renos
This policy note on the Dominican Republic holds that in recent years, the Dominican Republic has had economic growth rates relatively high, with domestic price stability and exchange rate. This expan...
Informe#: 87111Fecha: 9 de marzo de 2013Autor:
Agüero, Rudy Loo-Kung ;
Manzano, Osmel ;
Richaud,Christine M. ;
Sanchez Martin,Miguel Eduardo
This book is the result of three conferences held in Uruguay, Paraguay, and El Salvador, to discuss the role of public television in Latin America. The role of public media is making a major readjustm...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 75918Fecha: 8 de marzo de 2013Autor:
Martinez,Luis Arroyo ;
Becerra, Martin ;
Garcia Castillejo,Angel Ignacio ;
Santamaria Valladolid,Oscar
This report presents an overview of general findings from International Labor Office (ILO) and World Bank (WB) database. The report only uses a fraction of this large and rich database and is an invit...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 75824Fecha: 5 de marzo de 2013Autor:
Mahmood, Moazam ;
Saget, Catherine
Estos Documentos armonizados por la Agencia Nacional de Contratación Pública – Colombia Compra Eficiente - CCE, el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo y el Banco Mundial para la Adquisición de bienes, ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 145479Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2013
Sharia-compliant financial inclusion represents the confluence of two rapidly growing sectors: microfinance and Islamic finance. With an estimated 650 million Muslims living on less than $2 a day (Oba...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 78233Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2013Autor:
El-Zoghbi,Mayada ;
Tarazi,Ala Michael
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