This guide reflects the International
Finance Corporation's (IFC) experience with credit
bureau markets; its purpose is to provide a comprehensive
overview of the d...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38857Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
A recent review of international
experience finds that the median targeted program provides
roughly 25 percent more resources to the poor than would
random allocati...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 33372Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Lindert,Kathy A.
The report provides a preliminary
assessment of DR-CAFTA (the Dominican Republic and Central
American Free trade Agreement), with particular attention to
three key ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 36806Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Jaramillo,Carlos Felipe ;
Lederman,Daniel
Brazil is one of the few countries to
secure real progress in the Education for All (EFA) process.
This issue, part of the special series for EFA in Latin
America a...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35658Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
This field note reports lessons from a
recently concluded pilot project in the city of El Alto,
Bolivia. The project aimed to find innovative ways of
reducing the c...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 37306Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
The past two years witnessed an
unprecedented advocacy campaign by global civil society to
promote the 2005 year of development. An estimated 150
million citizens a...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 51430Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Garrison, John
This second fully revised edition
presents the experiences of a set of leading companies in
Latin America in reforming and improving how their firms are
governed, a...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 49606Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Global Corporate Governance Forum ;
IFC ;
Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Develo
The focus of the note is on
non-contributory social programs for low-income households,
or other vulnerable groups in OECD countries. These
programs, typically refe...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35631Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Tesliuc,Emil Daniel
Governments and donor organizations
increasingly recognize that rigorous evaluations of public
interventions should be part of the social policy
decision-making pro...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33364Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Blomquist,John D.
Groundwater and surface water are
intimately linked, being part of the same overall
hydrological cycle. Aquifers discharge to surface water
bodies, and can be recha...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44293Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Garduno, Hector ;
Foster, Stephen ;
Nanni, Marcella ;
Kemper, Karin ;
Tuinhof, Albert ;
Koundouri, Phoebe
This report analyzes the Bank's
assistance to support pension reform to determine if the
Bank's strategy was relevant and if it was followed.
The evaluation assesse...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 35521Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Andrews,Emily S. ;
Bateman,Hazel ;
Ferraresi,Pier Marco ;
Fornero,Elsa ;
Palmer,Ed ;
Piggott,John ;
Rofman,Rafael P. ;
San Martino,Jorge Antonio ;
Valdes Prieto,Salvador ;
Wang,Debby Kim
Food-based safety net programs provide
food, either directly, or through instruments (such as food
stamps or coupons) that may be used to purchase food. More
genera...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33356Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Weigand,Christine
This study analyzes the general
situation and main political changes with regard to
indigenous peoples in Latin America; more specifically the
countries of: Bolivia...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 38612Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Hall,Gillette H. ;
Patrinos,Harry Anthony
Groundwater resources management has to
deal with balancing the exploitation of a complex resource
(in terms of quantity, quality, and surface water
interactions) w...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44297Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Tuinhof, Albert ;
Dumars, Charles ;
Foster, Stephen ;
Kemper, Karin ;
Garduno, Hector ;
Nanni, Marcella
This evaluation of the Bank's
assistance on trade-related issues focuses on the period
between fiscal years 1987 and 2004. The majority of
developing countries have...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 35921Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
The determination of the price of
emission reductions (ERs) of the Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF)
has always been a critical aspect in implementation. All the
parties ...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 33332Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
In response to shrinking budgets and
growing demands, many developing countries have adopted
formal or informal user fees in government health
facilities. While the...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 33359Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Bitran Dicowsky,Ricardo A. ;
Giedion,Ursula
Transition economies are commonly
understood to be countries that have moved or are moving
from a primarily state-planned to a market-based economic
system with pri...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33352Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Del Ninno,Carlo
Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are an
innovative and increasingly popular approach to social
assistance. They provide money to poor families contingent
upon cert...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33365Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Rawlings, Laura B.
In many low income African countries,
three factors are placing an undue burden on the elderly: 1)
the burden on the elderly has enormously increased with the
incre...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33369Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Subbarao,Kalanidhi
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