This briefing note deals primarily with promoting an integrated approach to water resource planning whereby groundwater is incorporated into the overall national strategy for water conservation. Groun...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 38818Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Garduno,Hector ;
Foster,Stephen ;
Nanni,Marcella ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
Tuinhof,Albert ;
Koundouri,Phoebe
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 goals in maternal and child health, ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 34775Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
This report investigates the scope and manner of regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement have been...
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 particular, conflict and HIV-AIDS have pr...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33366Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Prywes,Menahem M.
This briefing note deals primarily with issues affecting initial development, and subsequent expansion of groundwater supplies, in areas underlain by minor aquifers, whose yield to water wells is both...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44294Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Foster,Stephen ;
Tuinhof,Albert ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
Koundouri,Phoebe ;
Nanni,Marcella
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-targeted groups (i.e., the non-poor)...
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 them can be severely constrained. Wh...
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 private investment and productivity ...
Tipo: Country Economic MemorandumInforme#: 32233Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
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 and quality processes are often very ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44676Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Tuinhof,Albert ;
Foster,Stephen ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
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 to unskilled manual workers, income...
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 of abusive labor, lack of education,...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33367Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Tovo,Maurizia ;
Prywes,Menahem M. ;
Kielland,Anne ;
Gibbons,Catherine A. ;
Saito,Junko
To be successful, Social Safety Net (SSN) programs require three elements of policy design: technical correctness, administrative feasibility and political viability; yet the politically supportable a...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33370Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Ouerghi,Azedine
The report provides a preliminary assessment of DR-CAFTA (the Dominican Republic and Central American Free trade Agreement), with particular attention to three key themes: (1) expected trade and non-t...
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 and the Caribbean, includes: outsta...
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 cost of providing water and sewerage ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 37306Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
This guide reflects the International Finance Corporation's (IFC) experience with credit bureau markets; its purpose is to provide a comprehensive overview of the development of credit bureaus. IFC's ...
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 allocations. Nonetheless, the study also fin...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 33372Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Lindert,Kathy A.
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 expected to rise to 35 million by 2010...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33368Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
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, and the results these changes have ac...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 49606Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Global Corporate Governance Forum ;
IFC ;
Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Develo
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 around the globe mobilized to call on...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 51430Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Garrison,John W.
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