The purpose of local economic
development (LED) is to build up the economic capacity of a
local area in order to improve its economic future and the
quality of life...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 33769Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Goga,Soraya ;
Murphy,Ian Fergus ;
Swinburn,Gwen
The primary goal of this Focus Note is
to raise awareness in the microfinance sector of the issues
associated with foreign exchange risk. First, it explains
what ex...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35819Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Featherston,Scott Douglas ;
Littlefield,Elizabeth L. ;
Mwangi,Patricia
Biotechnology is probably as old as
civilization itself. Special methods of food preparation,
such as developing drinks from fermenting wheat or fruit, or
making ch...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 36406Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
Public safety nets in developing
countries address the vulnerability of the poor and the
near-poor to income disruption, but such formal programs do
not operate in ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33358Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Weigand,Christine
In 2003, the World Bank launched a
global round of the International Comparison Program (ICP),
aimed at measuring the purchasing power parities (PPP) and
correspond...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38494Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Biru,Yonas ;
Camelo, Heber ;
Ducharme, Louis Marc ;
Ryten,Jacob
Over the years of Bank support for
Education for All (EFA) and its world conferences in 1990
and 2000, the Bank's policy objectives for increased
support to primary...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 42874Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
This briefing note deals primarily with
promoting an integrated approach to water resource planning
whereby groundwater is incorporated into the overall
national st...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 38818Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Garduno, Hector ;
Foster, Stephen ;
Nanni, Marcella ;
Kemper, Karin ;
Tuinhof, Albert ;
Koundouri, Phoebe
The series is intended to give a concise
introduction to the theory and practice of groundwater
resource management and protection (a neglected subject) in
a conven...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44292Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Foster,Stephen ;
Kemper,Karin Erika
This report investigates the scope and
manner of regulations that enhance business activity and
those that constrain it. Quantitative indicators on business
regulat...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 36225Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
Many developing countries are witnessing
the emergence of a large and growing number of orphans,
street children, and children in the worst forms of labor.
In parti...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33366Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Prywes,Menahem M.
Persistent malnutrition is contributing
not only to widespread failure to meet the first Millennium
Development Goals-to halve poverty and hunger-but to meet
other ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 34775Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
Social safety nets are often seen as
short-term palliatives or, worse, wastes of scarce money in
developing economies. Critics point to leakages of benefits
to non-...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33363Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Whitehead, Tim
In countries where large parts of the
population live in absolute poverty, the need for social
safety nets may be greatest, but the capacity to fund and
administer ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33361Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Weigand,Christine
Bolivia is today at a crossroads.
Several years of growth were achieved in the early and mid
1990s resulting from structural reforms which encouraged an
upswing in ...
Tipo: Country Economic MemorandumInforme#: 32233Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
This briefing note deals primarily with
issues affecting initial development, and subsequent
expansion of groundwater supplies, in areas underlain by
minor aquifers...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44294Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Foster, Stephen ;
Tuinhof, Albert ;
Garduno, Hector ;
Kemper, Karin ;
Koundouri, Phoebe ;
Nanni, Marcella
The crux of this report is that ground
water is a widespread but hidden and inaccessible resource.
It contrasts with surface water in that changes in the
quantity a...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44676Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Tuinhof, Albert ;
Foster, Stephen ;
Kemper, Karin ;
Garduno, Hector ;
Nanni, Marcella
Public works programs have been an
important safety net intervention in both developed and
developing countries for many years. By providing temporary
low-wage jobs...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33351Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Blomquist,John D. ;
Mackintosh,Fiona J.
Orphans and other vulnerable children
(OVC) are among the most vulnerable population groups in
Africa. Without support and protection, they are exposed to
the risk ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33367Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Tovo, Maurizia ;
Prywes, Menahem ;
Kielland, Anne ;
Gibbons, Catherine ;
Saito, Junko
To be successful, Social Safety Net
(SSN) programs require three elements of policy design:
technical correctness, administrative feasibility and
political viabilit...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33370Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Ouerghi,Azedine
Conflicts and the HIV-AIDS pandemic are
generating a major humanitarian crisis in Sub-Saharan
Africa: the number of children who have lost one or both
parents is ex...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33368Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
Ud. ha cliqueado en un enlace que lleva a una página que no se incluye en la versión beta del nuevo sitio bancomundial.org. Antes que salga del sitio, nos encantaría recibir sus comentarios acerca de la experiencia que tuvo mientras lo visitó. ¿Tiene dos minutospara completar una breve encuesta que nos ayudará a mejorar nuestro sitio web?
Encuesta sobre comentarios
¡Muchas gracias por participar en nuestra encuesta! Sus comentarios son muy valiosos para nosotros mientras buscamos mejorar nuestro sitio web.