The handbook covers the conceptual and methodological aspects for measuring the disaster that causes damage in the capital gains and output streams of goods and services, in addition to estimating the...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 47583Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Comision Economica para America Latina y el Caribe
The note explains groundwater resources are never strictly non-renewable. But in certain cases the period needed for replenishment (100s to 1000s of years) is very long in relation to the normal time-...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30101Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Foster,James Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
Nanni,Marcella ;
Tuinhof,Albert
Without better policies and institutions, social and environmental strains may derail development progress, leading to higher poverty levels and a decline in the quality of life for everybody, accordi...
Tipo: World Development ReportInforme#: 24705Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003
Consideration of lifelong learning extends the World Bank's traditional approach to education, in which subsectors are looked at in isolation. Three years ago, when he articulated the Comprehensive De...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 26001Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003
The report reviews the substantial progress Costa Rica made over the past decade in reducing poverty and improving social indicators. However, while economic growth certainly reduced poverty rates, th...
Tipo: Other Social Protection StudyInforme#: 24300Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003
Contents: Chapter 1: Meeting the MDG Challenge: Access for the Poor: Global Context, About the Water and Sanitation Program. Chapter 2: The Global Agenda: Knowledge Management at the Global Level: Glo...
Tipo: Annual ReportInforme#: 37290Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003
This Global Corporate Governance Forum toolkit distills practical experience from 17 developed and developing countries and provides practical advice on building organizations that train corporate dir...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 62904Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Gottron, Marty ;
Massachusetts, Stockbridge ;
Morrison,Nancy ;
Virginia, Falls Church
Groundwater, as a vital natural resource for the reliable and economic provision of potable water supply, merits protection in both the urban and rural environment. It thus plays a fundamental (but of...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30100Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Dumars,Charles ;
Foster,James Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
Nanni,Marcella ;
Tuinhof,Albert
The book reviews the work of the first ten years of the Inspection Panel (while an integral part of the Bank, it has complete independence from Bank Management), an accountability mechanism within the...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 26758Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003
Early in 2000, Ecuador, confronted with a serious economic crisis, adopted the US dollar as its national currency, This book examines the conditions that led to this action, describing the repeated cy...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 24556Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Beckerman, Paul ;
Solimano, Andres [editors]
This note stresses that access to improved water sources and services for basic sanitation influences the obtaining of positive indicators of nutrition, health and education. As a result, efforts to a...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 46593Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003
PROGRESA (Programa de Educacion, Salud y Alimentacion) is an innovative Mexican program that provides cash transfers to poor rural households, on condition that their children attend school and their ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26785Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Quentin Wodon, Benedicte de la Briere, Corinne Siaens, and Shlomo Yitzhaki
The channels through which geography influences economic and social development can be studied at different levels and perspectives of time. Countries are the basic unit of observation, and some histo...
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, as well as environmental impacts o...
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 implementation is dealt with elsewh...
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 water resources from the Yacambu catc...
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 prevention of delinquency, known as CPTED (C...
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 prevention of delinquency, known as CPTED (C...
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 (including groundwater), can be granted ...
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 in the resources of a specified aqu...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30094Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Dumars,Charles ;
Foster,James Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Nanni,Marcella ;
Tuinhof,Albert ;
Kemper,Karin Erika
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