World Development Report 2006 analyzes the relationship between equity and development. The report documents the persistence of inequality traps by highlighting the interaction between different forms...
Tipo: World Development ReportInforme#: 32204Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2006Autor:
Manuelyan Atinc,Tamar ;
Banerjee,Abhijit ;
Ferreira,Francisco H. G. ;
Lanjouw,Peter F. ;
Menendez,Marta ;
Ozler,Berk ;
Prennushi,Giovanna ;
Rao,Vijayendra ;
Robinson, James ;
Walton, Michael ;
Woolcock,Michael
This study on reducing HIV/AIDS vulnerability in Central America was carried out with the following specific objectives: 1) Review the epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in Central America; 2) Assess Nation...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38544Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2006Autor:
Bortman,Carlos Marcelo ;
Miranda, Marianella ;
Moreira, Leonardo ;
Rocha Pimenta,Isabel ;
Rayo Benavides,Danilo Jose ;
Rodriguez, Antonia Elizabeth ;
Saenz,Luis Bernardo
This study on reducing HIV/AIDS vulnerability in Central America was carried out with the following specific objectives: 1) Review the epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in Central America; 2) Assess Nation...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38550Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2006Autor:
Bortman, Marcelo ;
Saenz, Luis B ;
Pimenta, Isabel
One of the principal challenges in reducing poverty and accelerating development in Peru is improving the quality of education. This book is a contribution from the World Bank to the debate over how t...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 40557Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2006
This work pursues two objectives. On one hand, it evaluates the quality of the information regarding income transfer as obtained by the Continuous Household Surveys 2001 to 2006, taking into account r...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 41056Fecha: 12 de noviembre de 2006Autor:
Arim Ihlenfeld,Rodrigo ;
Vigorito Delgado,Andrea ;
Salas, Gonzalo
In this issue: Third GEF Assembly - a retrospective: UNDP view of Assembly; overview of the IYDD forum; overview of the NGO forum; evaluation office; roundtables; market-based mechanisms; mitigation a...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 38428Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2006
This book reviews Latin America's experience with infrastructure reform over the last fifteen years. It argues that the region's infrastructure has suffered from public retrenchment and unrealistic ex...
Tipo: Recent Economic Developments in Infrastructure (REDI)Informe#: 37899Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2006Autor:
Fay,Marianne ;
Morrison,Mary
Mexico is presently in a transition period. With help of public institutions, the private sector and the civil society, the country is in the process of introducing sector reforms that will contribute...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 38966Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2006
This paper concerns municipal debt reduction in Peru. The paper is organized in five chapters, including this introduction. The second chapter describes the present status of municipal debt in Peru, a...
Tipo: Other Financial Accountability StudyInforme#: 35607Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2006
This study was undertaken under an agreement between Regulatel, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facili...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 40829Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2006Autor:
Stern, Peter A. ;
Townsend,David Newell
This is the second of two articles that draw on the results of recent studies of the links between financial services and low income communities in Latin America. While the focus remains on the nature...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 38741Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2006Autor:
Didoni,Alberto ;
Goldberg,Michael J. ;
Gwinner,William Britt ;
Solo, Tova Maria
This country procurement assessment review (CPAR) was compiled according to the internal World Bank directives issued on May 23, 2002. In November of 2006, the Banks presented the CPAR report to the n...
Tipo: Country Procurement Assessment (CPAR)Informe#: 39594Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2006
Doing Business investigates the scope and manner of regulations that encourage business activity and those that constrain it. The indicators cover four areas of business regulation and their enforceme...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 39325Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2006
Climate change is a very serious environmental challenge that affects prospects for sustainable development. Since the Industrial Revolution, the mean surface temperature of Earth has increased an ave...
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 policy debate in the region. After more t...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 38170Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2006Autor:
Rofman,Rafael P. ;
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 dilemma of trade-offs between poverty ...
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, and present possible options to res...
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 must: address shortfalls in the provi...
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 identification of priorities and trade...
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 country assistance programs and developm...
Tipo: Annual ReportInforme#: 38314Fecha: 2 de octubre de 2006
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