This paper extensively reviews the logistics chain and quality assurance for Colombian foreign trade products. The main content of the paper includes four sections: the importance of quality and log...
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 climatic regions. It is thus a key ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44296Fecha: 15 de enero de 2006Autor:
Foster,Stephen ;
Koundouri,Phoebe ;
Tuinhof,Albert ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
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, including structure of Bank lending 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 virtuous circles in which poverty reductio...
Tipo: Poverty AssessmentInforme#: 35348Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Arias Diaz,Omar S. ;
Lopez,J. Humberto ;
Maloney,William F. ;
Perry, Guillermo E. ;
Serven,Luis
Public agricultural, development, and savings banks do serve poor clients in many developing countries, but their objectives are largely social rather than commercial. Private and public banks devote ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35820Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Ivatury,Gautam J.
The two-way relationship between poverty and disability fosters: disability increases the risk of poverty and the conditions of poverty increase the risk of disability, yet little attention has been g...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33371Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Mitra,Sophie
Efforts to launder money and finance terrorism have been evolving rapidly in recent years in response to heightened counter measures. The international community has witnessed the use of increasingly ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 35052Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Schott, Paul Alllan
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) addresses global environmental issues while supporting national sustainable development initiatives. It does so through a partnership involving 176 member countri...
Tipo: Annual ReportInforme#: 65331Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
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 cause of death in children under 5 year...
Tipo: Other Health StudyInforme#: 70794Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
The report on enhancing control of highly pathogenic avian influenza in developing countries through compensation seeks to provide guidelines on good practice for payment of compensation as part of hi...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38403Fecha: 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 avoid and mitigate the severity of ...
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 social safety net, the main justificat...
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 falling into poverty. Cash transfers,...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33355Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Blomquist,John D. ;
Mackintosh,Fiona J.
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 for all. It is a process by which p...
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 exchange risk is. Second, it looks at ...
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 cheese, were known in prehistoric time...
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 a vacuum. Private and informal mecha...
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 corresponding price and volume levels of Gross...
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 education have been simple and rema...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 42874Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
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 convenient and accessible format. Thus eac...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44292Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Foster,Stephen ;
Kemper,Karin Erika
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