The Northeast region of Brazil has long
been the single largest pocket of rural poverty in Latin
America. With a combined area of 1.6 million square
kilometers-16 p...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26722Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2002Autor:
Luis Coirolo, and Tulio Barbosa
The Conflict Analysis Framework (CAF),
developed by the CPR Unit, aims to integrate sensitivity to
conflict in Bank assistance, and to help Bank teams consider
fact...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 25563Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2002Autor:
Shardesai, Shonali ;
Wam,Per
Public primary schooling in Brazil is
the responsibility of state and municipal governments and
not under the direct jurisdiction of the federal Ministry of
Educati...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26721Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2002Autor:
Robin Horn
Editorial - new investments in the rural
water and sanitation sector and decentralization. Propilas 2
in Cajamarca : local municipalities will design their
strategi...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 34806Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2002Autor:
Castillo, Oscar ;
Marcia Linares, Fatima ;
Rojas, Ricardo
This note discusses the emerging issues
to which the safeguard system of the World Bank Group must
respond, touches on current safeguards-related work
undertaken by...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 34955Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2002
This is the address to the Board of
Governors, delivered by Mr. James D. Wolfensohn, President
of the World Bank. It was indicated that the development
community ha...
Tipo: President's SpeechInforme#: 25308Fecha: 29 de septiembre de 2002Autor:
Wolfensohn,James D.
In 1999, 40 percent of the deforestation
within the Amazon region took place in Brazil's Mato
Grasso agricultural state, which spans almost 91 million
hectares and ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91786Fecha: 17 de septiembre de 2002
Since traditional coffee cultivation can
harm the ecosystem, efforts have been made to develop
methods that will help maintain biodiversity. Shade-grown
coffee seem...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91794Fecha: 17 de septiembre de 2002
With more than half of its two million
inhabitants living in unplanned squatter settlements, the
Venezuelan capital of Caracas is faced with immense
challenge in de...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91790Fecha: 17 de septiembre de 2002
This Results Profile briefly mentions
the World Bank's $2 billion in loans to support the
Brazilian government's water resource activities. As a
result, the number ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91944Fecha: 17 de septiembre de 2002
Under the Program for Normalization of
Informal Areas, Light Serviços de Electricidade SA,
Rio's main power provider, is working in the
city's low-income communitie...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91943Fecha: 17 de septiembre de 2002
This note on the process of preparation
of reforms in the water sector for the benefit of the poor
in Katmandu is part of an investigative initiative. It
stresses t...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 46910Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2002
This paper discusses the range of
food-based transfers that are typically used in social
safety net programs. The authors have tried to provide
guidance as to the a...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 29735Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2002Autor:
Lorge Rogers, Beatrice; Coates, Jennifer
This paper will consider a range of
consumer-oriented subsidy instruments, including general
subsidies, and tax exemptions as well as targeted quotas.
Section II di...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 25299Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2002Autor:
Alderman,Harold H.
Microfin is designed to support your
business planning processes, by generating an integrated,
detailed set of five-year projections to help you assess the
viabilit...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 34258Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2002Autor:
Lunde,Shirley
OED's first Annual Report on
Evaluation Capacity Development (AREC) finds that the World
Bank is increasing its support for Evaluation Capacity
Development (ECD) ac...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27641Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2002
Why do microfinance institutions (MFIs)
charge such high interest rates to the poor? This brief
highlights some of the key issues related to microcredit
interest ra...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34186Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2002Autor:
Goodwin-Groen,Ruth P.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
have been adopted by the international community as a series
of development targets to be accomplished over the period
1990-...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26717Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2002Autor:
Hicks, Norman ;
Wodon, Quentin
According to the World Resources
Institute, at current rates of deforestation and land
clearance, 5 to 10 percent of tropical forest biodiversity
will vanish over t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27685Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2002
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