With a population of seven million,
Honduras is the second most populous country in Central
America. It is also the second poorest country in the region
with an ann...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 37045Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2006Autor:
Alwang,Jeffrey Roger ;
Jansen,Hans G. P. ;
Pichon,Francisco J. ;
Siegel,Paul Bennett
The document describes the main findings
and recommendations of a study focused on the operational,
managerial, and participatory communal aspects within the
autono...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 35671Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2006
Afro-descendents in Latin America
represent about one-fifth of the total population of the
region, and next to the indigenous population, are the
poorest of the con...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 36387Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2006Autor:
La universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero ;
Reyes, Hiska N. [editor] ;
Stubbs, Josefina [editor]
The National Program for the Development
of Community-Administered Education (PRONADE) in Guatemala
began in 1992 with the objective of improving access to
educatio...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35659Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2006Autor:
Rojas, Carlos ;
Valerio, Alexandria ;
Demas, Angela
This report presents the proceedings of
the SWAp ("Sector Wide Approach") Workshop in
Water Supply and Sanitation held in Montelimar, Nicaragua,
May 19-20, 2005. Th...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 35581Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2006
A growing number of countries are
pursuing a results orientation by building or strengthening
their government monitoring and evaluation (M&E)
systems. This paper p...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 37828Fecha: 31 de enero de 2006Autor:
Mackay,Keith
This report provides an assessment of
accounting, financial reporting and auditing practices
within Uruguay's corporate sector, using International
Financial Report...
Tipo: Accounting and Auditing Assessment (ROSC)Informe#: 38589Fecha: 30 de enero de 2006
This paper extensively reviews the
logistics chain and quality assurance for Colombian foreign
trade products. The main content of the paper includes four
sections...
Tipo: PSD, Privatization and Industrial PolicyInforme#: 35061Fecha: 25 de enero de 2006
Groundwater plays an integral role in
sustaining certain types of aquatic, terrestrial and coastal
ecosystems, and the associated landscapes, both in humid and
arid...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44296Fecha: 15 de enero de 2006Autor:
Foster, Stephen ;
Koundouri, Phoebe ;
Tuinhof, Albert ;
Kemper, Karin ;
Nanni, Marcella ;
Garduno, Hector
The book has a comprehensive
introduction and two main parts. Part I presents the
conceptual underpinnings for the Bank's thinking on
pension systems and reforms, i...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 32672Fecha: 12 de enero de 2006Autor:
Hinz,Richard Paul ;
Holzmann,Robert
Poverty Reduction and Growth is about
the existence of these vicious circles in Latin America and
the Caribbean about the ways and means to convert them into
virtuo...
Tipo: Poverty AssessmentInforme#: 35348Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Arias Diaz,Omar S. ;
Lopez,J. Humberto ;
Maloney,William F. ;
Perry, Guillermo E. ;
Serven,Luis
The two-way relationship between poverty
and disability fosters: disability increases the risk of
poverty and the conditions of poverty increase the risk of
disabil...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33371Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Mitra,Sophie
Public agricultural, development, and
savings banks do serve poor clients in many developing
countries, but their objectives are largely social rather
than commerci...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35820Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Ivatury,Gautam J.
Efforts to launder money and finance
terrorism have been evolving rapidly in recent years in
response to heightened counter measures. The international
community ha...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 35052Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Schott, Paul Alllan
This paper points out that
Public-Private Partnership to promote laundering hands with
soap in Peru has evolved to deal with diarrhea which is the
third leading cau...
Tipo: Other Health StudyInforme#: 70794Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
The Global Environment Facility (GEF)
addresses global environmental issues while supporting
national sustainable development initiatives. It does so
through a part...
Tipo: Annual ReportInforme#: 65331Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
In the wake of the periodic financial
crises of the late 1990s, the international financial
institutions and many experts have recognized the need for a
strategy to...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 34415Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Pomerleano, Michael [editor] ;
Shaw, William [editor]
Several governments in developing
countries have been using demand-side programs to increase
access to housing services among the poor. From the
perspective of a so...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33353Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
del Ninno, Carlo
Cash transfers can be defined as the
provision of assistance in the form of cash to the poor or
those who face a probable risk, in the absence of the
transfer, of f...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33355Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Blomquist,John D. ;
Mackintosh,Fiona J.
The report on enhancing control of
highly pathogenic avian influenza in developing countries
through compensation seeks to provide guidelines on good
practice for p...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38403Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
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