This Public Expenditure Review (PER)
concentrates on four main issues: the overall fiscal
sustainability and rigidities in expenditure, the
distribution of benefits...
Tipo: Public Expenditure ReviewInforme#: 27894Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004
The high interest rates charged by many
microfinance institutions (MFIs) have attracted the
attention of policy makers throughout the world. Several
concerns have b...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 33479Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004Autor:
Helms,Brigit S. ;
Reille,Xavier
Microfinance enables the poor to build
assets, diversify and increase incomes, and reduce their
vulnerability to economic stress. Microfinance is
sustainable: dozen...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 83149Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004Autor:
Littlefield,Elizabeth L. ;
Rosenberg,Richard
This study presents the evolution,
present situation, and perspectives of the water supply and
sanitation sector in Colombia. The sector is totally
decentralized, g...
Tipo: Other Infrastructure StudyInforme#: 32088Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004Autor:
Tuzman Fernandez,Diego
As in most Latin American countries, the
water and sanitation sector of Honduras is going through a
decentralization process that induces profound changes. New
regu...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 31717Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004
The overall objective of this analysis
is to identify investment priorities and need of reforms by
assisting the government to develop a strategy for World
Bank fin...
Tipo: Other Infrastructure StudyInforme#: 32087Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004Autor:
Ospina Ovalle,German A.
This report covers how subsidies have
been applied to utility users with differing income levels.
Addressing subsidies in Colombia is complex. Prior to 1994
the Gov...
Tipo: Other Infrastructure StudyInforme#: 32092Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004Autor:
Casas, Camila ;
Medina Guzman,Juan Pablo ;
Melendez Arjona,Marcela
This paper poses the key question as to
what extent can carefully-deployed, low-cost, recharge
structures be used to enhance groundwater resources and
rejuvenate dr...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 38811Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004Autor:
Foster, Stephen ;
Garduno, Hector
The issues addressed in this Country
Financial Accountability Assessment (CFAA), lie at the very
core of the Government of Paraguay's performance, and
its fight aga...
Tipo: Country Financial Accountability AssessmentInforme#: 30084Fecha: 26 de agosto de 2004
In the province of Manabi, Ecuador, the
Poverty Reduction and Local Rural Development Project
(PROLOCAL) has partnered with a group of community based
organizations...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30732Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2004Autor:
Pichon,Francisco J. ;
Rueda,Manuel ;
Santi,Emanuele
Chile's public procurement system
is considered generally free of corruption, supported by
probity of the civil servants, decentralization, and good
budgetary and c...
Tipo: Country Procurement Assessment (CPAR)Informe#: 28914Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2004
Inadequate sanitation and housing
threaten the lives and health of 600 million urban dwellers
worldwide. By applying good microfinance practice to housing
finance, ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34240Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2004Autor:
Brusky, Bonnie
This latest Voices of the Poor study
advances the participatory research tradition of the
previous World Bank Voices works with new modules focusing
on poor peoples...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 29890Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2004Autor:
Arboleda,Jairo A. ;
Blackburn,James ;
Petesch,Patti L.
In this issue: Highlights of May
Council Meeting. News from GEF focal areas. News from GEF
implementing agencies. GEF country activities/issues. New
GEF public...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 37622Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2004
Throughout the development of the
microfinance industry, network support organizations (NSOs)
have played a critical role in launching new institutions,
developing ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33456Fecha: 1 de julio de 2004Autor:
Cook,Tamara B. ;
Isem, Jennifer
The Dominican Republic has 120,000
persons living with AIDS (PLWAs), 9 times the total number
of reported cases. About 20,000 people have died from AIDS
in the last...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30729Fecha: 1 de julio de 2004Autor:
Marquez,Patricio V. ;
Montalvo, Luis Emilio
Most participants in the microfinance
movement of recent decades see their goal as improving the
availability and quality of financial services for poor and
near-po...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 33478Fecha: 1 de julio de 2004Autor:
Jayadeva,Veena ;
Peck Christen, Robert ;
Rosenberg,Richard
This paper develops a diagnostic and
propose recommendations necessary for strengthening the
institutional capacity of government entities responsible
for regulatin...
Tipo: Other Infrastructure StudyInforme#: 32094Fecha: 1 de julio de 2004Autor:
Caballero Argauez, Carlos ;
Jadresic,Alejandro ;
Ramirez Gomez, Manuel
On one level, poverty exacerbates gender
disparities. Inequalities between girls and boys in access
to schooling or adequate health care are more acute among
the po...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 21776Fecha: 1 de julio de 2004Autor:
Mason, Andrew D. ;
King, Elizabeth M.
Water resources management represents
one of Mexico's most urgent environmental challenges
today, and one that impacts heavily on the economy. Mexico
continues to g...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 34636Fecha: 30 de junio de 2004Autor:
Asad. Musa ;
Garduno, Hector
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