The Southern States Development Strategy was undertaken in 2002 at the request of the Mexican government. It builds on the 2001 World Bank Report "Mexico, a Comprehensive Development Agenda for the Ne...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 31116Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2003Autor:
Hall,Gillette H. ;
Humphrey,Christopher S.
The article discusses the 20th century opportunities for rapid natural resource-based growth that Latin America systematically missed. Even if it were the case that resource abundant countries have ex...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 28431Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2003Autor:
Maloney,William F.
A new scenario is rising in Latin America: that of increasing indigenous governance. One decade after the emergence of the region's indigenous peoples, the traditional political order of power is faci...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 42049Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2003
Editorial - participatory budget and sanitation. Coverage expansion project by PAC-SEDAPAL : Strategy to offer water and sanitation services to the poorest of Lima; by Jaime Salcedo, Rolando Vasquez a...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 34809Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2003Autor:
Acosta, Javier ;
Alegria G., Julio ;
Campos,Marco ;
Fernandez, Ciro ;
Pacheco, Herberth ;
Salcedo Lobaton,Bernardino Jaime ;
Vasquez Sanabria,Rolando
The Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) is an independent post that reports directly to the president of the World Bank Group. Its mandate is twofold: 1)first to help the International Finance Corporat...
Tipo: Annual ReportInforme#: 108398Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2003
This note describes the successful experience of the project : Escuela y Casa Saludable, which was initiated in 1966 in Honduras. The project is a joint effort by Servicio Nacional Autonomo de Acueduc...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38726Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2003Autor:
Melghem Mejia,Dora Lorena
This article shares some experiences with different techniques for estimating economic benefits and costs used by the Bank in appraising urban upgrading projects . The projects usually combine infras...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 28430Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2003Autor:
Sotomayor Araujo,Maria Angelica
"From Vision to Action", the Bank's previous rural development strategy launched in 1997, had a decisive influence on global thinking - but disappointing results on the ground. In 2001, lending for ag...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 30411Fecha: 31 de agosto de 2003
The United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have galvanized the development community with an urgent challenge to improve the welfare of the world's neediest people. Donor agencies are ori...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33454Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2003Autor:
Hashemi,Syed Mesbahuddin ;
Littlefield,Elizabeth L. ;
Morduch,Jonathan J.
HIV/AIDS in Latin America falls within the framework of a low endemic setting. In the majority of the countries, the epidemic is still concentrated in high-risk populations: men who have sex with men ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 27581Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2003Autor:
Anabela Garcia Abreu, Isabel Noguer, and Karen Cowgill
The central objective of the Sana'a Basin Water Management Program (SBWMP) (now approved for World Bank funding) is to increase the usable life of the aquifers of the Sana'a Basin - thereby postponing...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 38802Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2003Autor:
Foster,James Stephen
The Nuestras Rais Program (NR) was created in Honduras in 1995 after massive ethnic demonstrations, in which people protested poor access to basic public services and demanded more access roads (and l...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 28429Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2003Autor:
Traa-Valarezo,Ximena B. ;
Rodriguez Meza,Jorge Luis
This book is intended to help regulators learn about the tools needed to measure efficiency. It is based on lecture notes from courses the World Bank Institute offers in English, French and Spanish th...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 26062Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2003Autor:
Coelli, Tim ;
Estache, Antonio ;
Perelman, Sergio ;
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This evaluation of the Bank's assistance program for the Dominican Republic, covers the period from FY85 to FY02. The Bank was a small player in the economy, compared to the Inter-American Development...
Tipo: IEG EvaluationInforme#: 26483Fecha: 31 de julio de 2003
Historically, the public university system in Argentina has been characterized by two salient features: free of charge and free access. However, despite public resources that supposedly allow such fre...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 28079Fecha: 30 de julio de 2003Autor:
Becerra,Marcelo ;
Cetrangolo,Oscar ;
Curcio, Javier ;
Jimenez, Juan Pablo
The Argentine .health sector faces the challenge of improving its performance and finding options for resolving its chronic problems of inequity, inefficiency and weak regulatory framework. These chal...
Tipo: Health Sector ReviewInforme#: 26144Fecha: 21 de julio de 2003
The note looks at tobacco from the health perspective, and at how to reduce its use, since smoking is becoming the single biggest cause of death worldwide, particularly affecting the developing countr...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 23179Fecha: 1 de julio de 2003
These disclosure guidelines were developed in consultation with microfinance practitioners, and the member donors of CGAP (the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor). CGAP recommends to its donor memb...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 34266Fecha: 1 de julio de 2003Autor:
Rosenberg,Richard ;
Mwangi,Patricia ;
Peck Christen, Robert ;
Nasr,Mohamed Saad El-Din
The municipal development program was an innovative project whose aim, at first, was strengthening the leadership capacity of afro-descendants and later grew to include several community organizations...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27113Fecha: 1 de julio de 2003Autor:
Josefina Stubbs, and Hiska Reyes
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