This report states that civil society, mainly represented by the Collective Forest (area of forest stakeholder participation assisted project TRAFFIC), manages to achieve legal technical approaches pr...
Tipo: Other Environmental StudyInforme#: 69854Fecha: 1 de julio de 2010
This note specifies that one of the challenges faced by developing countries and more advanced countries is gender inequality in the labor market. Despite the existence of laws prohibiting discriminat...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 57155Fecha: 1 de julio de 2010Autor:
Pungiluppi,Juliana ;
Castro, María Elena ;
Muñoz-Boudet, Ana María
This is the fifth in a series of reports to document global progress with control of animal and pandemic influenza. Global efforts continue to work towards ensuring a world capable of preventing, dete...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 57514Fecha: 1 de julio de 2010
Mobile-Swahili for Money (M-PESA), Kenya's mobile phone-based money transfer service, exploded onto the scene in 2007. In just three years, it has attracted over 9.5 million customers, in a country wi...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 56629Fecha: 1 de julio de 2010Autor:
Breloff,Paul Joseph ;
Tarazi,Ala Michael
Late one night in November 2007 Aleksandr Kalanda, chief executive officer of Opportunity Bank in Malawi, sat in his office reviewing strategic plans for 2008. The commercial microfinance bank had dou...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 56628Fecha: 1 de julio de 2010Autor:
Kumar,Kabir Chandra ;
Mckay,Claudia Vonderohe ;
Rotman,Sarah Catherine
This statement sets out the policy of the World Bank on public access to information in its possession. The policy supersedes the World Bank policy on disclosure of information, and takes effect on Ju...
Tipo: Policy PaperInforme#: 54873Fecha: 1 de julio de 2010
This study is an outgrowth of a previous study on communal land in Guatemala. The purpose is to identify which are the factors that determine low representation and participation by women in the decis...
Tipo: Policy NoteInforme#: 70643Fecha: 30 de junio de 2010Autor:
Reyna Contreras,Ana Violeta
This report is part 1 of a study on the development of a strategy for a policy on clean vehicles in Colombia. It contains a review of the regulatory, economic, persuasive and other instruments that ha...
Tipo: Energy-Environment ReviewInforme#: 70648Fecha: 29 de junio de 2010
The policy notes have two objectives: (i) to present the incoming government team with a menu of policy options in areas where the World Bank has local and international experience; and (ii) to provid...
Tipo: Policy NoteInforme#: 54939Fecha: 22 de junio de 2010
The bank has a long relationship with Uruguay's agricultural sector, expanding over a period of more than 60 years in which several projects and various analytical and advisory assistance initiatives ...
Tipo: Other Agricultural StudyInforme#: 55220Fecha: 20 de junio de 2010
During the second half of the year 2008, the world experienced the worst worldwide economic crisis in over 70 years. The effects deriving from this crisis can still be felt over most of the planet. Lo...
Informe#: 56513Fecha: 15 de junio de 2010Autor:
Senderowitsch, Roby ed. ;
Tsikata, Yvonne M ed.
The Province of Buenos Aires has historically been the most important of all 23 Argentine provinces. Following Argentina's independence in 1816 and the development of the export-oriented agricultural ...
Tipo: Country Economic MemorandumInforme#: 52601Fecha: 14 de junio de 2010
Decentralization in Peru is an ongoing process that is in its infancy and faces key challenges. This study aims to take stock of the process and identify these challenges. The main goal of the report ...
Tipo: Public Expenditure ReviewInforme#: 52885Fecha: 7 de junio de 2010Autor:
Apostolou,Apostolos ;
Aviles,Ana Maria ;
Calvo-Gonzalez,Oscar ;
Casas Tragodara,Carlos Augusto ;
Cunha,Barbara ;
Eaton,Kent H. ;
Holt,Patricia Chacon ;
Illescas,Javier ;
Kaiser,Kai-Alexander ;
Koehler-Geib, Friederike ;
Mayuri,Milagro ;
Ortiz, Diana ;
Yokoyama Tsuchikame,Emmy Silvya
Market nervousness concerning the fiscal positions of several European high-income countries poses a new challenge for the world economy. This arises as the recovery is transitioning toward a more mat...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 64468Fecha: 1 de junio de 2010Autor:
World Bank
This paper states that Peru is a country of extreme diversity, both in geography and in the conditions of the socioeconomic characteristics of their citizens. This makes the achievement of the goals o...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 57564Fecha: 1 de junio de 2010Autor:
Meier,Peter ;
Tuntivate,Voravate ;
Barnes,Douglas French ;
Bogach,Victoria Susan ;
Farchy,Daniel J.
This document is the second in a series of three reports prepared by the Bank at the request of Costa Rica as a deeper study - Competitiveness of Costa Rica: Diagnosis and Recommendations. The commerc...
Tipo: PSD, Privatization and Industrial PolicyInforme#: 69129Fecha: 1 de junio de 2010
This study posits that in order to gain a better understanding of existing and potential users of electricity in rural areas of Peru, the National Survey on Energy Consumption Households in Rural Area...
Tipo: Energy StudyInforme#: 57700Fecha: 1 de junio de 2010Autor:
Meier,Peter ;
Tuntivate,Voravate ;
Barnes,Douglas French ;
Bogash, Susan V. ;
Farchy,Daniel J.
This report is an analysis of the size, structure and resources of the economy of Costa Rica that validates government's decision to implement a growth strategy based on exports and services. The succ...
This document is the first in a series of three reports prepared by the Bank at the request of Costa Rica as a deeper study of Competitiveness of Costa Rica: Diagnosis and Recommendations. The aim of ...
Tipo: Other Poverty StudyInforme#: 69165Fecha: 1 de junio de 2010
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