Climate change is a very serious
environmental challenge that affects prospects for
sustainable development. Since the Industrial Revolution,
the mean surface tempe...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 38740Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2006Autor:
Vergara,Walter
This paper focuses on the coverage
dimension, looking at empirical data in Latin America.
Coverage of pension systems has slowly become a central
issue in the polic...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 38170Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2006Autor:
Rofman, Rafael ;
Lucchetti, Leonardo ;
Ourens, Guzman
There are many causes, consequences, and
connections of deforestation and forest poverty in the
tropical world. This report specifically addresses the
potential di...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 36789Fecha: 23 de octubre de 2006Autor:
Buys,Piet ;
Chomitz,Kenneth M. ;
De Luca,Giacomo Davide ;
Thomas,Timothy S. ;
Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Sheila
The main objective of this report is to
provide an update of the education situation in Bolivia,
identify the challenges facing the Bolivian education system
today,...
Tipo: Education Sector ReviewInforme#: 35073Fecha: 16 de octubre de 2006
El Salvador faces a list of policy
challenges related to infrastructure that will impact the
country's ability to reduce poverty and resume growth.
The Government m...
Tipo: Other Infrastructure StudyInforme#: 37689Fecha: 10 de octubre de 2006
With water in Mexico becoming very
scarce spatially and over time, it is now a factor that
limits economic activity and social well-being in several
regions. The id...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 38205Fecha: 5 de octubre de 2006Autor:
Asad,Musa S. C. ;
Dinar,Ariel
This Foreword and Executive Summary to
the 2006 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (ARDE)
restates the aim of the World Bank's results agenda to
design coun...
Tipo: Annual ReportInforme#: 38314Fecha: 2 de octubre de 2006
This book argues that Peru faces an
unprecedented opportunity to become the next success story
in Latin America. In the coming five years, policy making
could put t...
Tipo: Policy NoteInforme#: 38286Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006Autor:
Fretes-Cibilis, Vincente ;
Guigale, Marcelo M. ;
Newman,John Lincoln
The purpose of Guidelines : selection
and employment of consultants by World Bank borrowers, is to
define the Bank's policies and procedures for
selecting, contract...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 95662Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006
Costa Rica is well-known for its
socio-economic achievements with low levels of poverty and
inequality by Latin American standards. It also performs
well in health,...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 38739Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006Autor:
Mason,Andrew D. ;
Sobrado,Carlos E.
This Focus Note offers insights on
questions concerning new approaches to branchless banking:
what are the risks and are they different from the risks of
convention...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 38413Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006
This publication provides a brief
introduction to the concept of ecological sanitation sums up
the experience of two pilot projects and makes
recommendations to fac...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 42951Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006
This publication provides a brief
introduction to the concept of ecological sanitation,
summarizes the experience of two pilot projects, and makes
recommendations t...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 46900Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006
The purpose of these guidelines is to
inform those carrying out a project that is financed in
whole or in part by a loan from the International Bank for
Reconstruct...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 95474Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006
This "Preliminary Analysis of
National Governance and Forest Sector Legislation for the
Countries of the Amazon River Basin "is commissioned by
the Bank World with ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 80505Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006
The International Comparison Program
(ICP) is the world's largest statistical initiative,
involving 107 countries. It produces internationally
comparable price leve...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 39654Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006
Education requires sustained and
well-sequenced efforts to bring about tangible results. The
recently completed Secondary Education Project in El
Salvador builds up...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 38197Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006
This report seeks to raise awareness of
good practice and improve the effectiveness of donors'
and investors' operations in supporting inclusive
finance. Specifical...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38788Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006
This executive summary of the Annual
Report records the achievements of the Multilateral
Investment Guarantee Agency during fiscal year 2006.
MIGA's investment insu...
Tipo: World Bank Annual ReportInforme#: 37400Fecha: 30 de septiembre de 2006
This study points out that the economic
and political history of Paraguay in the last decade
indicates that the country, albeit with considerable
potential has rema...
Tipo: Other Public Sector StudyInforme#: 69582Fecha: 25 de septiembre de 2006
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