This handbook is designed as a resource for borrowers and the World Bank staff who wish to understand the World Bank's policies and procedures regarding debt servicing on its financial products. These...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 47614Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2005
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed in August 2004, between the Dominican Republic (DR) and the United States of America (US), contains a specific chapter on agriculture. Concurrently, the financial...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 32002Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2005
Central America's single most important educational challenge is improving learning at all levels. Improved learning is vital for individual and national growth, competitiveness, and quality of life. ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33196Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2005Autor:
Di Gropello,Emanuela
The instrument for the establishment of the restructured Global Environment Facility (GEF) provides for the convening of an Assembly of all participants to review GEF's general policies, review and ev...
Tipo: Global Environment Facility Working PaperInforme#: 46701Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2005
The Indigenous Peoples Leadership Capacity Building Program for the Andean Countries (Andean Program) is the result of an initiative of the Fund for the Development of Indigenous Peoples of Latin Amer...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33197Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2005Autor:
Uquillas Rodas,Jorge E.
The purpose of this paper is to assess the World Bank's recent relations with civil society organizations (CSOs), that is, nongovernmental organizations and not-for-profit organizations, and to propos...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 34160Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2005Autor:
Mandell, Carolyn Reynolds ;
Reuben,William ;
Thindwa, Jeff ;
Garrison,John W. ;
Gears,Cynthia ;
Monico, Carmen
Increasing access to basic infrastructure, and social services is critical to reducing poverty, and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, increasing access is a challenge because...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35540Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2005
In this paper, the authors show that an element of groundwater planning and management will be essential if the groundwater in Greater Nairobi is to play a more optimum and cost-effective role in the ...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 38813Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2005
Although much has been written about the benefits that money transfers could bring to pro-poor financial service providers and their clients, relatively little information is available on how they mig...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 33480Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2005Autor:
Deshpande,Gauri Rani ;
Isern,Jennifer ;
Van Doorn,Judith
Developing countries have a substantial interest in totally integrating agriculture under the multilateral trade regime. Approximately 73 percent of the poor in developing countries live in rural area...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 34857Fecha: 28 de febrero de 2005Autor:
Nash,John D.
This field note documents the experience of the Rural and Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Program (PRAGUAS), executed in Ecuador and financed by the World Bank. Under the PRAGUAS program, the ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 33069Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2005
The MECOVI program --short for "Programa para el Mejoramiento de las Encuestas de Hogares y la Medicion de Condiciones de Vida", a Spanish acronym for the Regional Program for Improvement of the Surve...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33124Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2005Autor:
Lee,Haeduck ;
Moncada Vigo,Gilberto A.
While many Latin American countries have succeeded in providing access to basic education for the great majority of children, educational quality in the region remains very low. In an increasingly glo...
Tipo: Other Education StudyInforme#: 33266Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2005Autor:
Vegas,Emiliana ;
Umansky,Ilana
Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the regions of the world with the greatest inequality. Latin America is highly unequal with respect to incomes, and also exhibits unequal access to education,...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 34856Fecha: 30 de enero de 2005Autor:
Ferreira,Francisco H. G. ;
Walton,Michael
Remittances explores policy options for enhancing the poverty alleviation impact of remittance money in recipient countries, and addressees concerns about increasing migration and inequality. It looks...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 32598Fecha: 5 de enero de 2005Autor:
Maimbo, Samuel Munzele [editor] ;
Ratha, Dilip [editor]
The authors present an overview of gender-based violence (GBV) in Latin America, with special emphasis on good practice interventions to prevent GBV or offer services to its survivors or perpetrators....
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 32062Fecha: 1 de enero de 2005Autor:
Rice Bott,Sarah ;
Ellsberg,Mary Carroll ;
Morrison,Andrew R.
This Toolkit on Procurement of Communication Activities is intended to help Bank staff, and client governments procure communication services in accordance with Bank procurement guidelines. Communicat...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 35880Fecha: 1 de enero de 2005Autor:
Poduie,Antonietta
A project that involves involuntary resettlement, the economic and/or physical displacement of people, represents a significant challenge for IFC. Without proper planning and management, involuntary r...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 24674Fecha: 1 de enero de 2005
This Global Corporate Governance Forum toolkit emphasizes the purpose and benefits of developing corporate governance codes of best practice. Whilst globalization of economies has increased, and inter...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 34669Fecha: 1 de enero de 2005
This report analyzes the effectiveness of the World Bank's lending support for the growing area of community-based development (CBD) and community-driven development (CDD). The latter supports the emp...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 34773Fecha: 1 de enero de 2005
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