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 drinking water wells preferentially - ...
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 against corruption. The outputs of the ...
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 to harness a community radio's pote...
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 control systems. However, it is affec...
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, a range of financial institutions ar...
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' action recommendations. In the sum...
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 publications.
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 standards, wholesaling funds, provid...
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 decade. HIV/AIDS is the leading cau...
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-poor clients. Thus far, much of the mo...
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 regulating and supervising public service del...
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 poor than among those with higher inco...
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 grapple with water management problem...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 34636Fecha: 30 de junio de 2004Autor:
Asad,Musa S. C. ;
Garduno,Hector
Historically, governments have used credit schemes as a way to transfer resources to specific target populations. The negative impact of most of these schemes has led many donors and experts to advoca...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34239Fecha: 30 de junio de 2004Autor:
Duflos,Eric Bertrand Pierre ;
Imboden,Kathryn
Editorial - non-traditional technologies to expand coverage and reach the poorest. The experience of Parauapebas, Para, Brazil : provision of water services using ' condominiales ' networks; by Joao M...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 34811Fecha: 30 de junio de 2004
This report discusses the affects of rapid economic growth and increased urbanization on the environmental quality of the Dominican Republic's natural resource base (e.g., water resources management--...
Tipo: Country Environmental Analysis (CEA)Informe#: 29627Fecha: 29 de junio de 2004
The AIDS epidemic has emerged as a devastating global crisis that continues to worsen and has become a major obstacle to economic and social development. So important is this issue that an eminent gro...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 37212Fecha: 21 de junio de 2004
This report assesses accounting, financial reporting and auditing practices within the corporate sector in Chile, using International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and International Standards o...
Tipo: Accounting and Auditing Assessment (ROSC)Informe#: 35017Fecha: 15 de junio de 2004
The report provides an assessment of accounting, financial reporting, and auditing practices within the corporate sector in Peru, using International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), and Internat...
Tipo: Accounting and Auditing Assessment (ROSC)Informe#: 35170Fecha: 10 de junio de 2004
This brief includes the following headings: introduction; building on experience - scaling up; two sizes, two approaches; results on the ground; ensuring provision of services to the poor; beyond the ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30730Fecha: 1 de junio de 2004Autor:
Libhaber,Menahem ;
Troyano,Fernando ;
Ulloa, Luis Fernando
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