Mexico's seguro popular (Popular Health Insurance) program represents an effort to overcome the classic problem in reaching the poor through insurance programs: the difficulty of providing adequate co...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 43057Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
The design of many development policies continues to assume wrongly that farmers and rural workers are men. The important role of women in agriculture in many parts of the world calls for urgent atten...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 41385Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
This paper explains the story of how Senora Ana Maria Andrade, an enterprising baker, launched her business. She learned to identify opportunities and to confront the risks to improve her future. The ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 45221Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
This strategic framework serves to guide and support the operational response of the World Bank Group (WBG) to new development challenges posed by global climate change. Unabated, climate change threa...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 47893Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
This paper explains that the International Finance Corporation (IFC), member of the World Bank Group, promotes economic growth in sustainable middle-income countries and emerging economies. Through it...
Tipo: ReportInforme#: 62311Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008Autor:
Deane,Arsala ;
Astonitas Villafuerte,Lya Maine
Participatory water monitoring has an especially important role to play in reducing or avoiding water-related conflict in large-scale, intensive development projects. Conflict tends to arise in situat...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 108843Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
Doing Business in Colombia measures the ways in which government regulations enhance business activity or restrain it. In enhances the general Doing Business report by expanding from Bogota to 12 citi...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 42788Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
This paper explains that the International Finance Corporation (IFC), member of the World Bank Group, promotes economic growth in sustainable middle-income countries and emerging economies. Through it...
Tipo: ReportInforme#: 62286Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008Autor:
Deane,Arsala ;
Astonitas Villafuerte,Lya Maine
Rwanda was recovering from the genocide of 1994, during which nearly a million of its people died. Gradually, the social fabric is being stitched together with support from the international community...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 51776Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
In 2001, after a long period of recession, Argentina faced the greatest economic, political, and institutional crisis in its history. Unemployment reached levels nearing 18 percent and the poverty rat...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 53816Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008Autor:
Stubbs,Josefina
Small-and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) represent an important part of the Colombian economy, although they are not well documented in official statistics. In particular, there does not exist suffic...
Tipo: Other Financial Sector StudyInforme#: 41610Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
Grievance mechanisms are increasingly important for development projects where ongoingrisks or adverse impacts are anticipated. They serve as a way to meet requirements, prevent and address community ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 108864Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
Highlighted in this issue of Caudal: Challenges of water and sanitation services in the Amazon basin; Provision of water services, sanitation and hygiene for low income urban communities in Medellin, ...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 44500Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
Realizing the potential of Latin America and the Caribbean's youth is essential not only to their well being, but also to the long term well being of the whole region. Young people's families, communi...
Tipo: Other Social Protection StudyInforme#: 62478Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008Autor:
Cunningham,Wendy ;
Mcginnis,Linda ;
Garcia Verdu,Claudio Rodrigo ;
Tesliuc,Cornelia M. ;
Verner,Dorte
This paper explains that the International Finance Corporation (IFC), member of the World Bank Group, promotes economic growth in sustainable middle-income countries and emerging economies. Through it...
Tipo: ReportInforme#: 62307Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008Autor:
Deane,Arsala ;
Astonitas Villafuerte,Lya Maine
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) annual report continues an approach pioneered last year, combining information on the investments and advisory services, sustainability, development effecti...
Tipo: World Bank Annual ReportInforme#: 46277Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
The paper on addressing needs, creating opportunities or ensuring rights, identifies and examines what three normative visions of social policy and social actors and relevant politicians of ten Argent...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 43741Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008Autor:
Bonvecchi,Alejandro ;
Smulovitz,Catalina
Doing Business 2008, the fifth report in the series, found that large emerging markets, such as China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Turkey, and Vietnam, were reforming fast. The report also found that mor...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 41938Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
This work is a compilation of three studies that discuss recent evolution of poverty Peru in 2004-2007. Although the studies may be read separately, they complement each other. The first study examine...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 50150Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
This paper updates the 1997 World Bank Health, Nutrition, and Population (HNP) strategy to enhance Bank capacity so that it continues to contribute to this virtuous circle in light of the momentous ch...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 40928Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
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