A World Bank project in Honduras has helped make justice accessible to many people who previously struggled with an inefficient, outdated, opaque judicial system. Through a range of activities, from t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 93576Fecha: 10 de mayo de 2012
Over the past two decades, Nigers social indicators have improved significantly. The gross primary school enrollment rate increased from about 29 percent in the early 1990s to 76 percent in 2011 and ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 93575Fecha: 9 de mayo de 2012
A flagship government education program in India, the largest of its kind in the world, has succeeded in bringing more than 17 million children to school that had previously been left outside the scho...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 93512Fecha: 9 de mayo de 2012
Using a reform-based loan from the International Development Association (IDA), India has successfully improved the quality of vocational training provided by 400 industrial training institutes (ITI) ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 93510Fecha: 9 de mayo de 2012
The project makes a significant contribution to the Karnataka government’s reform and development program for the health sector by supporting policy and legislative reform, innovations in health finan...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 93503Fecha: 9 de mayo de 2012
The Government of India estimates that about 2.4 million Indians are living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), ranking the country third globally in number of people with HIV and acquired immuno...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 93505Fecha: 9 de mayo de 2012
Funded by the International Development Association (IDA) and the multi-donor Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF), a project aimed at developing the skills of young Afghans has assisted more ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 93568Fecha: 9 de mayo de 2012
Bangladesh has sustained an impressive track record for growth and development. In the past decade, the economy has grown at nearly 6 percent per annum despite frequent natural disasters and the fuel,...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 93571Fecha: 9 de mayo de 2012
From its inception in 2008, an innovative project backed by the World Bank has provided over two million targeted stipends for secondary education in Bangladesh, 60 percent of which are provided for g...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 93484Fecha: 8 de mayo de 2012
The World Bank is working with the Government of Punjab in Pakistan to improve education for school children through a range of initiatives, from cash stipends, low-cost private schools to more effect...
This report argues that the practice of disaster risk management (DRM) is a defining characteristic of resilient societies, and should therefore be integrated, or 'mainstreamed', into all aspects of d...
Informe#: 80608Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012Autor:
Ghesquiere,Francis ;
Reid, Prashant Robert
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes mellitus and chronic respiratory diseases generate a heavy burden in the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Car...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 71403Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012Autor:
Bonilla-Chacin,Maria Eugenia
The lack of data has long been recognized as a major barrier to extending access to financial services to low-income households and small businesses. Considerable progress has been made in recent year...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 80539Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012Autor:
Ardic Alper,Oya Pinar ;
Chen,Gregory C. ;
Hoppe,Mombert ;
Latortue,Alexia
Through twenty years of experiment and innovation, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) has created working models of sustainable development that have shaped our attitudes toward environmental prote...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 70289Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012
The new environment strategy for the World Bank Group lays out an ambitious action agenda that seeks to respond to calls from our client countries for a new kind of development path, one that supports...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 80483Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012Autor:
Awe,Yewande Aramide
In the past two years, the publication of three impact evaluations of microcredit programs in India, the Philippines, and Morocco precipitated a spate of press reports questioning the value of microcr...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 63331Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012Autor:
El-Zoghbi,Mayada ;
Martinez,Meritxell
Carbon markets were not immune to the economic volatility. Compounded by increasing signs of long-term oversupply in the European Union (EU) Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), the backbone of the EU's...
Tipo: Annual ReportInforme#: 76842Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012
The goal of the Forests and Climate Change Project of Mexico is to ensure sustainable management, restoration and expansion of Mexico's forest resources while strengthening the social capacity to with...
Informe#: RP1205Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012Autor:
Gonzalez Montiel, Ivette
This paper offers evidence from interviews that took the pulse of more than 100 industry insiders to provide a self-assessment of microfinance governance today. Corporate governance serves to mediate ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 71310Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012Autor:
Mckee,Katharine
Alakudi is a remote farming village near the southernmost tip of India in Tamil Nadu State. It would take 30 minutes or more by foot to reach the nearest dilapidated bank branch, though most Alakudi r...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 89805Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012Autor:
Ananth, Bindu ;
Chen, Gregory ;
Rasmussen, Steph
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