Building on two decades of education reform, Brazil's Ministry of Education (MEC) implemented a key instrument for measuring education quality in 2005, when it first administered Prova Brasil, a natio...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44691Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2008Autor:
Amorim,Erica Pereira ;
Parandekar,Suhas D. ;
Welsh,Andrea
This Country Financial Accountability Assessment (CFAA) for Argentina was prepared jointly by the World Bank (WB) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) on the basis of information timely colle...
Tipo: Country Financial Accountability AssessmentInforme#: 39228Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2008
The Global Environment Facility (GEF or the Facility) was established in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD or World Bank) as a pilot program in order to assist in the pro...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 105789Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2008
Included in this issue: In praise of purchasing power parties (PPP) comparisons. Remarks of International Comparison Program (ICP) anniversary Interviews Alan Hestoland Robert summers. What have we le...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 43814Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2008Autor:
Arl, Bart van ;
Bello, Abdullateef ;
Bevacque, Graciela ;
Ericta, Carmelita N. ;
Fantin, Marina ;
Fenwick, David ;
Giovannini, Enrico ;
Heston,Alan Wiley ;
Locas, Robert E. ;
Maddison, Angus ;
Maria, Melo Quintslr ;
Murria, Christopher JL ;
Ruiz, Francisco ;
SUMMERS, ROBERT ;
Tandon,Ajay ;
Timmer,Marcel Peter ;
Trewin,Dennis ;
Vogel,Frederic A. ;
Ward, Michael ;
Whitestone, Ben
From December 2006 to April 2007, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) evaluation office carried out an evaluation of GEF support to the Philippines. This was the second in an ongoing series of evalu...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 57585Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2008
The study provides policy recommendations to increase the productivity of micro and small firms in Bolivia and to provide incentives for firms to formalize based on a fresh understanding of firms beha...
Tipo: General Economy, Macroeconomics and Growth StudyInforme#: 40057Fecha: 19 de febrero de 2008
This main objective of the study is to provide information to the process of decisions making for future education strategies which the Government of Paraguay (GoP) will undertake to strengthening wha...
Tipo: Education Sector ReviewInforme#: 42665Fecha: 7 de febrero de 2008
This new investment stream is good news for microfinance providers. Microfinance needs a broader capital market to secure the funding required to scale up outreach and serve a greater number of financ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 43629Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2008Autor:
Reille,Xavier ;
Forster,Sarah Jacqueline
This book argues for the urgent need for countries to move forward aggressively on adopting and upgrading quality and standards. The focus is on developing countries, many of which are lagging in the ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 40516Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2008Autor:
Diop,Makhtar ;
Guasch, Luis J. ;
Racine,Jean-Louis Charles ;
Sanchez,Maria Isabel
This technical note describes ideas for discussion on social assistance and promotion under the Social Equity Plan in Uruguay. In late 2007 the National Care Plan for Social Emergency (PANES) ended. T...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 70642Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2008
In transformational branchless banking, technology plays the key role of inexpensively transmitting transaction details between the customer, the retail agent, the financial service provider, and thir...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 42703Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008Autor:
Lyman , Timothy R ;
Pickens , Mark ;
Porteous ,
The Indonesian health card program was part of the Social Safety Net Program (SSN) mounted by the Indonesian Government in response to the economic crisis in the fall of 1997. Even though similar sche...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 51774Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
Cambodia's Health Equity Funds (HEFs) seek to address the classic limitation of efforts to exempt the poor from user fees: the loss of income that such exemptions have typically represented for servic...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 43718Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
The study Comunicacion strategica para el desarrollo agrícola : el caso del Programa Nacional de Tecnología y Formacion Tecnica Agropecuaria en Nicaragua, presents a new way to understand inter-person...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 42902Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008Autor:
Bruni,Michele ;
Calabrese,Daniele ;
Santucci,Fabio Maria
The Department of Institutional Integrity (INT) uses a Board-endorsed triage system to categorize allegations as high, medium, or low-priority, and it aims to investigate all high-priority cases. Info...
Tipo: Annual ReportInforme#: 49476Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
The Kyrgyz experience illustrates that limiting patient financial burden is possible in a poor country with limited fiscal space through more efficient use of public resources. This lesson is particul...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 43722Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
This cartoon working paper deals with the topic of diversification and some investments that can be made in a business that you already have or a new one that you are planning to acquire. For this rea...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 45219Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
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