The channels through which geography
influences economic and social development can be studied at
different levels and perspectives of time. Countries are the
basic...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 27161Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Gallup, John Luke ;
Gaviria, Alejandro ;
Lora, Eduardo
The book examines the impacts of medium-
and large-scale mines on local communities, through six case
studies, analyzing both the socioeconomic and cultural
effects...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 23606Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Alvarado,Mario ;
Araya, Rodrigo ;
Barsi,Ron G. ;
Castillo, Julio ;
Damonte, Gerardo ;
Diez Hurtado, Alejandro ;
Diez-Viejobueno,Carlos ;
Fort Meyer,Ricardo ;
Franco Gonzales,Ismael Eduardo Wilson ;
Kunze, Veronica ;
Loayza, Fernando ;
McMahon, Gary [editor] ;
Ortega Girones,Enrique ;
Parsons, Graham F. ;
Pasco-Font Quevedo,Alberto ;
Santibanez Quezada,Fernando Rene ;
Remy, Felix [editor] ;
Ritter, Archibald R.M. ;
Salas, Guillermo ;
Sanchez, Jose Miguel
This briefing note explains the
technical strategies to confront situations of excessive,
and unstable groundwater exploitation, but the institutional
framework for...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30091Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Foster,James Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
Nanni,Marcella ;
Tuinhof,Albert
This case profile presents the progress
of an ambitious multi-purpose water-transfer scheme in the
vicinity of Barquisimeto-Venezuela, which aims, by
transferring w...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 38807Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Garduno, Hector ;
Nanni, Marcella
The contents of this document are based
on a criterion for the prevention of delinquency through the
design of the urban environment. This strategy for the
preventi...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 35136Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003
The contents of this document are based
on a criterion for the prevention of delinquency through the
design of the urban environment. This strategy for the
preventi...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 35136Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003
The note addresses the importance of
groundwater abstraction rights, and why water rights'
systems are needed. The right to abstract (or divert), and
use water (inc...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30093Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Dumars,Charles ;
Foster,James Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
Nanni,Marcella ;
Tuinhof,Albert
The note highlights the importance of
stakeholder participation in groundwater management, because
groundwater stakeholders are those who have an important
interest...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30094Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Dumars,Charles ;
Foster,James Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Nanni,Marcella ;
Tuinhof,Albert ;
Kemper,Karin Erika
Understanding the situation of urban
indigenous people in Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador entails the
definition of the social exclusion concept, central to the
three cas...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 35841Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Carrasco,Tania ;
Rees, Martha [editors] ;
Uquillas Rodas,Jorge E.
The note characterizes groundwater
systems, reviews key concepts and frequent misconceptions,
and explains how aquifers differ from one another.
Groundwater flows g...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30090Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Foster,James Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
Nanni,Marcella ;
Tuinhof,Albert
The World Development Report (WDR) 2004
builds an analytical, and practical framework for using
resources, whether internal or external, more effectively by
making ...
Tipo: World Development ReportInforme#: 26886Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003
The note provides an introduction to
groundwater resource management, its scope and practice, and
aims at clarifying the difference between surface water and
ground...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30089Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Dumars,Charles ;
Foster,James Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
Nanni,Marcella ;
Tuinhof,Albert
The note reviews country legislation
over groundwater resources, specifying many governments have
introduced legislation to regulate groundwater development,
and to...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30092Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Dumars,Charles ;
Foster,James Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
Nanni,Marcella ;
Tuinhof,Albert
A purpose of this book is to present
recent World Bank analytical work on the causes of violence
and conflict in Colombia, highlighting pilot lending
programs orien...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 21594Fecha: 31 de diciembre de 2002Autor:
Pastrano, Andres ;
Moser, Caroline ;
Lopez-Montano,
The issues related to women and gender
within the context of the water and sanitation sector, are
controversial since 1981-1990 where women were the sole
participan...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 25725Fecha: 31 de diciembre de 2002Autor:
Nino De Guzman,Jessica ;
Zevallos, Mercedes C.
This report examines the effect of
gender on socio-economic outcomes in three Caribbean
countries: the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica.
Organized in three sep...
Tipo: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportInforme#: 21866Fecha: 11 de diciembre de 2002
Latin America missed opportunities for
rapid resource-based growth that similarly endowed
countries-Australia, Canada, Scandinavia-were able to take
advantage of. F...
Tipo: Policy Research Working PaperInforme#: WPS2935Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2002Autor:
Maloney,William F.
Over the past 40 years,
"active" labor market programs (ALMPs) have
emerged as an important employment policy tool. Their
objective is primarily economic - to incr...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30131Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2002Autor:
Dar,Amit ;
Whitehead, Tim [editor]
In 1994, the World Bank significantly
expanded the information that it makes available to the
public. In 2001, after a major review of the information
disclosure po...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 24100Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2002
This report, Payments and securities
clearance and settlement systems in Ecuador, is one of
several public reports in the World Bank series, Western
Hemisphere Paym...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38837Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2002
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