Negotiations to restructure the Global Environment Facility (GEF) concluded at a GEF participants meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, in March 1994, with the acceptance by representatives of 73 states of ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 46689Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2004
Does trade improve prospects for women's employment and promote greater gender equality in wages? Trade creates or expands some activities and destroys or diminishes others. If an individual works in ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30200Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2004Autor:
Swamy,Gurushri N.
Reducing Nicaragua's high maternal mortality rate of 150 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births is a priority in the Government's Health Plan and Poverty Reduction Strategy. Efforts to improve repro...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30726Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2004Autor:
Fernandez Diaz,Jesus Maria ;
Ruiz Abril,Maria Elena
The purpose of these Guidelines is to inform those carrying out a project that is financed in whole or in part by a loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) or a cred...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 95472Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2004
This Voluntary Standard for Global Gas Flaring and Venting Reduction provides guidance on how to achieve reductions in the flaring, and venting of gas associated with crude oil production, ultimately,...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 29555Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2004
These rules provide the procedures that will be applied by the Council of the restructured Global Environment Facility (GEF) in the conduct of its business. The rules were adopted by the Council at it...
Tipo: Global Environment Facility Working PaperInforme#: 34738Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2004
The paper first surveys the literature on accountability and establishes a categorization of the different ways by which civil society can interact with the state in order to improve accountability. I...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 29701Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2004
These standard bidding documents are intended as a model for admeasurement (unit prices or unit rates in a bill of quantities) and lump sum types of Contract, which are the most common in Works contra...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 74217Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2004
The purpose of this guidelines is to define the Bank's policies and procedures for selecting, contracting, and monitoring consultants required for projects that are financed in whole or in part by loa...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 29708Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2004
Many inhabitants of rural areas in developing countries lack adequate and affordable access to transport infrastructure and services. Improving rural people's access to essential services requires bet...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: WTP525Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2004Autor:
Starkey, Paul ;
Ellis,Simon David ;
Hine, John ;
Ternell,Anna
The environmental, health, and safety (EHS) guidelines are technical reference documents with general and industry-specific examples of good international industry practice (GIIP). When one or more me...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 113558Fecha: 30 de abril de 2004
Downsizing programs are an important part of many public sector reforms supported by the World Bank. Although these programs can reduce budget deficits and address inefficiencies caused by state-led d...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30198Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004Autor:
Razzaz,Susan R.
This paper explains the five core elements of effectiveness - strategic planning and coherence; strong staff capacity; accountability for results; relevant knowledge management; and, appropriate instr...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 35813Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004
Health care waste management (HCWM) is a process to help ensure proper hospital hygiene and safety of health care workers and communities. It includes planning and procurement, construction, staff tra...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 53652Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004
The first case of HIV/AIDS was detected in Barbados in 1984. At that time, HIV/AIDS was viewed more as a consequence of risky personal behavior by men who have sex with men than as a public health iss...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30724Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004Autor:
Marquez,Patricio V.
This report develops the sectoral, structural, and financial composition of public spending in human development, setting analytical basis for a greater human development in the future. In particular,...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 29005Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004Autor:
Bonari, Damian ;
Becerra, Marcelo ;
Fiszbein, Arie
GW MATE provided general advice to Comision Nacional del Agua (CNA) on the preparation and implementation of the World Bank-funded MASAS Project for the stabilization of selected Mexican aquifers thro...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 38810Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004Autor:
Foster,Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Kemper,Karin Erika
This research assesses current state of knowledge about the impact of HIV/AIDS on individuals with disability and on disabled populations. The paper Documents current activities related to HIV/AIDS an...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 34313Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004Autor:
Groce,Nora Ellen
Brazil enjoys human and natural resources unavailable to most countries. Its assets include a diverse, energetic population and a vast territory that encompasses the world's largest rain forest and up...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30725Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004Autor:
Furtado,Angela C.
In most developing and industrial countries, infrastructure services have traditionally been provided by government enterprises, but in developing countries at least, these enterprises have often prov...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 28816Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004Autor:
J. Luis Guasch
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