Participatory Poverty Assessments (PPAs) use participatory research methods to understand poverty from the perspective of the poor by focusing on their realities, needs, and priorities. The principle ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 19083Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2002Autor:
Kende-Robb,Caroline M.
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#: 24711Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2002
The report builds a brief review of problems encountered in key sectors among Latin American countries, and features current gender issues and problems, as the basis for discussion, and action. Furthe...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 29348Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2002Autor:
Correia, Maria ;
Pena, Valeria
Through decentralization, and directives such as the Supreme Court judgment on solid waste management, local bodies in India are taking on responsibility for an increasing range of basic services. Thi...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 23771Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2002
Current coffee prices are at record lows and below the cost of production for many producers in Central America. Moreover, the coffee crisis is structural, and changes in supply and demand do not indi...
Tipo: Policy Research Working PaperInforme#: WPS2993Fecha: 19 de julio de 2002Autor:
Varangis, Panos ;
Siegel, Paul ;
Giovannucci, Daniel
Afro-Colombians make up 90 percent of the population in the rainforest-covered Chocó region along Colombia's Pacific coast. In 1994, the World Bank approved a Natural Resources Management Program to h...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91735Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002
This paper focuses on the initial thinking within the Latin America and Caribbean region of the World Bank (LCR) on empowerment, its operational implications and the specific contributions that the re...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 28306Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002
This document covers the lessons learned about setting up Public Private Partnerships for Handwashing. Part 1 explores the rationale for handwashing programs and for Public Private Partnerships; Part ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 33512Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002
Two of the main obstacles to improving public health services for Mexico's poor have been the population dispersion in rural areas, and the difficult geographic obstacles to reaching those in remote v...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91737Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002
The CrediAmigo microfinance program in Brazil, managed by the Banco do Nordeste (BN) shows how an international financial institution like the World Bank can be a useful catalyst in the development of...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33453Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002Autor:
Peck Christen, Robert ;
Schonberger,Steven N.
Magdalena Medio is one of the poorest and most violent areas of Colombia and a microcosm of the actors and issues underlying Colombia's armed conflict with guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries, with ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26714Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002
In 1999 confronted by some of the most bleak health indicators in Latin America, the Bolivian government asked the World Bank to help it with a program to bring better health care to poor families thr...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91758Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002
This Results Profiles focuses on the Judicial Reform Project for Ecuador. The project aims at increasing efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency in judicial process by: 1) improving administratio...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91746Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002
As in any society, access to information and the ability to communicate are essential if people are to participate in economic development. In five countries of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean S...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91745Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002
This Results Profile focuses on the Rural Road Rehabilitation and Maintenance Project for Peru. This project will reduce rural poverty and integrate remote zones through the rehabilitation of the tran...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91747Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002
In 1990, Brazil had one of the world's largest numbers of reported acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) cases in the world. In 1993, the World Bank approved 160 million dollars for the AIDS and s...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91734Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002
The purpose of this GW MATE consultancy was to undertake a diagnosis of groundwater conditions, use and status in Gran Asuncion and to identify issues that could influence overall water-sector policy ...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 38803Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002Autor:
Foster,James Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) 2002 annual report, discusses the challenges for MIGA during FY02, when a confluence of events, a troubled world economy, and the financial crisis i...
Tipo: World Bank Annual ReportInforme#: 26791Fecha: 30 de junio de 2002
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: 28 de junio de 2002
For 30 years, grants have been controversial as a World Bank operational instrument. In practice, they have proven useful in circumstances where an important development need could not be met through ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27688Fecha: 21 de junio de 2002
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