Pensions panorama provides a compendium of facts and analysis that should inform policy making and public debate about retirement-income systems around the world. The section following the introductio...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 37961Fecha: 1 de julio de 2007Autor:
Whitehouse,Edward R.
One of the Dominican labor market characteristics, as that in most countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, is the high percentage of population employed in the informal sector. This situation le...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 71656Fecha: 1 de julio de 2007
This note provides selected measurements of public sector size for the countries and territories of the Americas and discusses the resulting differences across countries and territories and across the...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 41105Fecha: 1 de julio de 2007Autor:
Carrizosa,Mauricio
The project PROPILAS pilot has been implemented by CARE PERU in the department of Cajamarca from 1999, with the financing of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (COSUDE) and the technical...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 42018Fecha: 1 de julio de 2007
The present document contains the result of the study on local small-scale businesses (OLPEs) which provide potable water and sanitary sewage system services in the suburban areas of the main cities o...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 41244Fecha: 1 de julio de 2007
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) set a record in fiscal 2007 for new investment commitments. This report explores IFC's increasing development impact and provides information on its investm...
Tipo: World Bank Annual ReportInforme#: 41234Fecha: 30 de junio de 2007
In this report several records stand out from fiscal year 2007: Nearly half (48 percent) of projects supported by MIGA were in IDA-eligible countries, bringing MIGA's outstanding exposure in IDA count...
Tipo: World Bank Annual ReportInforme#: 43496Fecha: 30 de junio de 2007
This World Bank annual report focuses on the work of the World Bank Group as it relates to countries and people striving to overcome poverty in all regions, especially in Africa. The World Bank Group ...
Tipo: World Bank Annual ReportInforme#: 41188Fecha: 30 de junio de 2007
Following the cessation of hostilities agreement between the governments of Ethiopia and Eritrea, the Ethiopian government approached the World Bank for assistance in financing a comprehensive post-wa...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92829Fecha: 27 de junio de 2007
In recent years, the Government of Colombia (GoC) has placed a high priority on competitiveness. Increasing globalization trends and Colombia's decision to increase trade integration, with the negotia...
Tipo: Other Infrastructure StudyInforme#: 42269Fecha: 26 de junio de 2007
Liberalization of the Indian economy, its gradual integration with the world economy, and rapid transformation into a knowledge-based society are increasing the demand for a well-trained workforce tha...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92818Fecha: 26 de junio de 2007
While Bangladesh has made impressive gains in access to education, governance constraints have contributed to the poor quality of education at all levels. The World Bank has supported the implementati...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92820Fecha: 26 de junio de 2007
In 1999, 23 percent of the Nicaraguan population age 10 and older was illiterate; in poor rural areas, the rate was actually 51 percent. International Development Association (IDA) started supporting ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92814Fecha: 25 de junio de 2007
In the 1990s the government drastically reduced its intervention in agriculture, but this liberalization was not accompanied by the provision of credit or technical assistance to farmers. The agricult...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92815Fecha: 25 de junio de 2007
In the 1990s, Mozambique's government had undertaken a substantial program of macroeconomic and policy reforms. The agricultural sector public expenditure program (PROAGRI) pioneered a sector-wide app...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92806Fecha: 13 de junio de 2007
Years of violence and conflict in Rwanda - after the collapse of the Arusha peace process in April 1994 and the ensuing genocide - spilled over into neighboring countries, fuelling, in particular, war...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92805Fecha: 12 de junio de 2007
A World Bank project launched experimentally in 1992 offered a welcome alternative to dire poverty or hard-knock immigration. The idea was to: offer small loans to trustworthy villagers and wait for t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92421Fecha: 10 de junio de 2007
The competitiveness project was designed to present and test options for improving the business environment in Nicaragua and to pilot new business development services (BDS), especially through develo...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92803Fecha: 8 de junio de 2007
Nicaragua is one of the poorest countries in Latin America and highly dependent on foreign aid. Despite recent steady progress in poverty reduction, at the launch of the program in 2004, some 46 perce...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92804Fecha: 8 de junio de 2007
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