Financial inclusion today is about financial markets that serve more people with more products at lower cost. This focus note first describes the challenges of the broader financial inclusion landscap...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 68069Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2012Autor:
Ehrbeck,Tilman D. ;
Pickens,Mark ;
Tarazi,Ala Michael
This primer is concerned with energy use and efficiency of network-based water supply and wastewater treatment in urban areas. It focuses on the supply side of the municipal water cycle, including the...
Tipo: ESMAP PaperInforme#: 68280Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2012
In a number of countries, two separate, but potentially complementary policy agendas have emerged in the past five years: governments have sought to increase the use of electronic means for government...
Informe#: 68070Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2012Autor:
Bold,Christopher Eric ;
Porteous,David John ;
Rotman,Sarah Catherine
This issue of the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) caseload - statistics provides an updated profile of the ICSID caseload, historically and for the Centre's fisc...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 72661Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2012
The financial systems of the Latin America and the Caribbean region (LAC) are at a crucial juncture. After a history of recurrent instability and crisis (a trademark of the region), they now seem well...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 65744Fecha: 10 de enero de 2012Autor:
Ize,Alain ;
Schmukler,Sergio L. ;
De La Torre,Augusto
Knowledge exchange, or peer-to-peer learning, is a powerful way to share, replicate, and scale up what works in development. Development practitioners want to learn from the practical experience of ot...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 74263Fecha: 1 de enero de 2012Autor:
Kumar,Shobha ;
Leonard,Aaron
The increase in oil prices has created a growing economic pressure in Nicaragua. The electric power industry, especially, has generated controversy, because electricity prices have not kept pace with ...
Tipo: Policy NoteInforme#: 69670Fecha: 1 de enero de 2012
This issue of the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) caseload - statistics updates the profile of the ICSID caseload, historically and for the calendar year 2011. I...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 68312Fecha: 1 de enero de 2012
International Finance Corporation (IFC) strives for positive development outcomes in the activities it supports in developing countries. These activities include: (i) investments financed directly by ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 110832Fecha: 1 de enero de 2012
International Finance Corporation’s (IFC’s) sustainability framework articulates the Corporation’s strategic commitment to sustainable development, and is an integral part of IFC’s approach to risk ma...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 113848Fecha: 1 de enero de 2012
Uno de los temas más importantes y acuciantes de
la actualidad es la seguridad hídrica. La agricultura
es el mayor consumidor de recursos hídricos. Si
continuamos utilizando en exceso este valioso ...
Tipo: Annual ReportInforme#: 195300Fecha: 1 de enero de 2012Autor:
World Bank
The paper is focused on the banking sector, not on other financial and nonfinancial sectors vulnerable to the laundering of corrupt funds. These other sectors may find the recommendations and good pra...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 54250Fecha: 1 de enero de 2012Autor:
Greenberg,Theodore Stewart ;
Gray,Larissa Alanna ;
Schantz, Delphine ;
Gardner, Carolin ;
Latham,Michael
IFC’s Sustainability Framework articulates the Corporation’s strategic commitment to sustainable development, and is an integral part of IFC’s approach to risk management. The Sustainability Framework...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 113768Fecha: 1 de enero de 2012
Madinah, Saudi Arabia, is a major destination point for pilgrims and a designated center for knowledge-based industry in the country. The Prince Mohammed Bin Abdulaziz International Airport, which ser...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 72717Fecha: 1 de enero de 2012
International Finance Corporation’s (IFC’s) sustainability framework articulates the Corporation’s strategic commitment to sustainable development, and is an integral part of IFC’s approach to risk ma...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 113839Fecha: 1 de enero de 2012
Doing Business 2012 is the ninth in a series of annual reports published by IFC and the World Bank. The report assesses regulations affecting domestic firms in 183 economies and ranks the economies in...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 73226Fecha: 1 de enero de 2012
The authors main thesis is that Peru has made significant progress in recent years thanks to a combination of good policy and good luck, the latter represented by an international environment very fav...
Tipo: Policy NoteInforme#: 61783Fecha: 1 de enero de 2012Autor:
Jaramillo,Carlos Felipe ;
Silva-Jáuregui, Carlos (editor)
In October 2008, the World Bank created the South-South Experience Exchange Facility to facilitate the exchange of anti-poverty experiences between and among developing countries. In 2009, the Plurina...
Tipo: Other Poverty StudyInforme#: 69220Fecha: 1 de enero de 2012
As donors pledge growing support for protecting and managing forests to address climate change, the question of how to pay tropical countries to reduce their emissions from deforestation and forest de...
Tipo: Other Agricultural StudyInforme#: 71575Fecha: 1 de enero de 2012
Guidance Note 1 corresponds to the application of Performance Standard 1. The Performance Standards are directed towards clients, providing guidance on how to identify risks and impacts, and are desig...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 113764Fecha: 1 de enero de 2012
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