In regard to Peru, the Municipal Scorecard 2007 complements other studies, such as the Doing Business Report and Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) of the World Bank Group. This paper offers an in-de...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 39921Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007
The primary objective of the Municipal Scorecard 2007 is to provide information to local authorities with which they can initiate reforms to improve the business climate in their jurisdictions. The sc...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 43743Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007
This book examines four major areas of institutional reform: a) political institutions and the state organization; b) fiscal institutions, such as budget, tax and decentralization institutions; c) pub...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 38780Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007Autor:
Lora, Eduardo [editor] ;
Fukuyama,Francis
The Municipal Scorecard 2007 focused on processes at 65 municipalities in 5 countries: Bolivia (9), Brazil (25), Honduras (9), Nicaragua (10) and Peru (12). A sample of business owners and municipal e...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 39917Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007
The World Bank committed $30.6 billion in transport-related projects during the past decade, making it one of the largest sectors. The evaluation looks into the Bank's experience in the sector, and as...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 43998Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007
Editorial: Social inclusion and water and sanitation sector by 2007; data, notes and drops; lessons and experiences: Report of the International Workshop of Andean Amazonia; Modernization of the manag...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 46196Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007
Conceived in 1944 to reconstruct war-torn Europe, the World Bank Group has evolved into one of the world's largest sources of development assistance, with a mission of fighting poverty with passion by...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 40519Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007
There are many causes, consequences, and connections of deforestation and forest poverty in the tropical world. This report specifically addresses the potential dilemma of trade-offs between poverty ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 36789Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007Autor:
Buys,Piet ;
Chomitz,Kenneth M. ;
De Luca,Giacomo Davide ;
Thomas,Timothy S. ;
Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Sheila
This study was initiated in 1999 with the objective of identifying the most promising path to development in light of emerging global and regional changes. The purpose of this volume is to examine the...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 38333Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007Autor:
Nabeshima,Kaoru ;
Yusuf,Shahid
To combat the country's stubbornly high poverty rate and replace a set of food-subsidy and other poverty relief programs that did not work, Mexico launched the Health, Nutrition and Education Program ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 43720Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007
Housing is one of the most important sectors of the economy -- in developing countries as in richer ones -- with large positive externalities in terms of economic growth, public health and societal st...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 38748Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007Autor:
Jha,Abhas Kumar
This paper investigates the conditions for social policy development of sub - autonomous national policies in federal countries. Autonomous sub-national social policies are understand to be those poli...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 51717Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007Autor:
Bonvecchi,Alejandro
Informality: exit and exclusion analyzes informality in Latin America, exploring root causes and reasons for and implications of its growth. The authors use two distinct but complementary lenses: info...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 40008Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007Autor:
Arias Diaz,Omar S. ;
Bosch Mossi,Mariano ;
Fajnzylber,Pablo ;
Maloney,William F. ;
Mason,Andrew D. ;
Perry, Guillermo E. ;
Saavedra,Jaime
In Mexico, the process of liberalization has simply aggravated the changes, or has given them a different direction. The agrarian structure in Mexico is highly concentrated and public policy is the pr...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 77987Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007Autor:
Rello,Fernando ;
Saavedra, Fernando
This paper identifies and analyzes three normative visions of social policy that social and political actors of ten Argentine provinces have respected as policies to be undertaken. In the first sectio...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 41775Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007Autor:
Bonvecchi,Alejandro ;
Smulovitz,Catalina
In Nepal, a country where young people's reproductive health needs are especially acute, a grassroots participatory approach has reduced the gap in reproductive health outcomes for young people with d...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 42025Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007
The primary objective of the Municipal Scorecard 2007 is to provide information to local authorities with which they can initiate reforms to improve the business climate in their jurisdictions. The sc...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 43744Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007
This paper presents a selection of unconventional technologies in Honduras with the purpose to identify and select solutions to users and the beneficiaries needs of rural water and sewerage services. ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38745Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007
This report states that Chile is on a path towards a steady advanced stage of development. However, this process can be affected by its high level of inequality, one of the highest in Latin America an...
Tipo: Country Gender Assessment (CGA)Informe#: 44661Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007
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