This document examines key challenges and opportunities that a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the United States and the Central American countries might mean for the agricultural and agro-industri...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 30143Fecha: 1 de junio de 2003
The note looks at what it takes for countries, and firms to "learn how to learn". Education is vital, for at least two reasons. First, it has always been a critical complement to technological advance...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27110Fecha: 30 de mayo de 2003Autor:
Perry,Guillermo
This newsletter presents issues of regionalization and the election of designated authorities for water and sewerage distribution in Peru. Bolivia, and Honduras. It contains the following articles : N...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 34808Fecha: 30 de mayo de 2003Autor:
Castillo,Oscar ;
Conza Salas,Alejandro ;
Encalada,Marcelo ;
Guevara, Sixto ;
Linares,Fatima ;
Mindreau,Lourdes Elena ;
SANBASUR ;
Sarabia, Victor ;
Schippner,Beatriz
There is a growing concern amongst protected area professionals that many protected areas around the world are not achieving the objectives for which they were established. One response to this concer...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 32939Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2003Autor:
Dudley,Nigel ;
Hockings, Marc ;
MacKinnon, Kathy ;
Stolton, Sue ;
Whitten, Tony
The report summarizes the findings of research carried out by the Bank's Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) through 1999, outlining the six-country study of small scale providers in Latin America, and...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 26382Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2003Autor:
Solo, Tova Maria
The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) facilitated intergovernmental deliberations by establishing the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF) in 1995 and the Intergovernmenta...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 32865Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2003
Poverty and social impact analysis (PSIA) involves the analysis of the distributional impact of policy reforms on the well-being of different stakeholder groups, with a particular focus on the poor an...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 30405Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2003
This study analyses and organizes sectoral information on water and sewerage services for Peru. It describes the elements for decision-making, it suggests a strategy for realignment of the meso-macro ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38734Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2003
The conventional wisdom in mainstream development policy circles is that income transfers to the poor, and safety net policies more generally, are at best a short-term palliative and at worst a waste ...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 27869Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2003Autor:
Ravallion,Martin
Smoking harms the health of smokers and those around them. Smokers are at far higher risks of strokes, heart attacks and other cardiovascular diseases; cancers of the lungs, mouth, larynx, bladder, pa...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 53656Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2003
Colombia is one of the most active Latin American countries in incorporating private sector participation (PSP) in managing water utilities. One of the community's main concerns is that reforms that t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26911Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2003Autor:
Sotomayor Araujo,Maria Angelica
To reach large numbers of people, microfinance must eventually move into institutions that are licensed and supervised by a country's financial authorities. A licensed institution can offer savings se...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34192Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2003Autor:
Rosenberg,Richard
This issue contains the following articles: Agua y saneamiento: la importancia de la capacitación (PAS-LAC). Objetivos del Plan Bolivia en el sector agua y saneamiento (Viceministro de Agua y Saneamie...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 31711Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2003
The Dakar Framework for Action adopted a "World Declaration on Education for All (EFA)" in 2000, which affirmed the notion of education as a fundamental right and established the new millennium goal t...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 26690Fecha: 30 de abril de 2003Autor:
Peters,Susan J.
Numerous initiatives, and programs targeted to young people exist in Latin America and the Caribbean, both governmental, as private, and/or nongovernmental organizations. The diversity of objectives, ...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 26309Fecha: 30 de abril de 2003Autor:
Pilotti, Francisco ;
Camacho, Maria Claudia
This evaluation assesses how the Bank has implemented Operational Directive (OD) 4.20, which calls for the preparation of an Indigenous Peoples Development Plan (IPDP) in investment projects that "aff...
Tipo: IEG EvaluationInforme#: 25754Fecha: 10 de abril de 2003
The consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) was established in 1971 to scale up years of effort by the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations in supporting four international agric...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27646Fecha: 1 de abril de 2003
This review by the Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) examined to what extent the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Multilateral Guarantee Agency (MIGA) currently deal with...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 108865Fecha: 1 de abril de 2003
More than a quarter of the world's population is between the ages of 10 and 24. Most (86 percent) of the world's 1.7 billion young people live in developing countries, where they are often 30 percent ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 53651Fecha: 1 de abril de 2003
The book intends to trigger, and support policy debate in Colombia. The first part distills four thematic chapters, responsive to the country's current realities, as well as to the five decades of dev...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 25426Fecha: 1 de abril de 2003Autor:
Giugale,Marcelo ;
Lafourcade,Olivier ;
Luff,Connie
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