As they undertook the difficult transition to a market economy, the countries of Eastern Europe found that they needed to radically reform their health sectors. The scope, pace, and outcome of the ref...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27689Fecha: 21 de junio de 2002Autor:
Campbell0Page, Elizabeth (editor-in-chief)
Roughly 2.6 million high-efficiency light bulbs were sold below-cost to residential consumers of electricity in two Mexican cities as part of a pilot demonstration project for high-efficiency lighting...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27683Fecha: 21 de junio de 2002Autor:
MCEven, Caroline (series editor)
The present study describes, and quantifies the provision of basic urban services to the poor, in three Central American cities in El Salvador, Honduras, and, Panama. It also identifies priority areas...
Tipo: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportInforme#: 22590Fecha: 3 de junio de 2002
The present study describes, and quantifies the provision of basic urban services to the poor, in three Central American cities in El Salvador, Honduras, and, Panama. It also identifies priority areas...
Tipo: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportInforme#: 22590Fecha: 3 de junio de 2002
This book helps us to understand development economics in light of the past half-century's experience of development thought and practice. This volume is an outgrowth of an intergenerational symposium...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 21747Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002Autor:
Meier,Gerald M. ;
Stiglitz, Joseph E. [editors]
Since the Social Development Summit in Copenhagen in 1995, there has been a progressive search for mechanisms to incorporate the social dimension systematically in the development agenda. Three core t...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 33963Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002Autor:
Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes ;
Fernandez Franco,Emiliano Rolando ;
GORDON, SARAH ;
Gutierrez-Espeleta, Edgar E. ;
Morrison,Andrew R. ;
Orlando,Maria Beatriz ;
Juan Pablo,Perez Sainz ;
Rodriguez,Ernesto ;
Sojo, Carlos [editor] ;
Strasser, Carlos
This report assesses the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the free trade agreement negotiated by Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, with the United States. The r...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 30142Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002Autor:
Gonzalez,Anabel
Following a request from the Western Hemisphere Finance Ministers, the World Bank (WB) launched in January 1999 the Western Hemisphere Payments and Securities Clearance and Settlement Initiative. The ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38828Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002
Societies and economies around the world are becoming more integrated. Integration is the result of reduced costs of transport, lower trade barriers, faster communication of ideas, rising capital flow...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 23591Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002
The poor save all the time. Savings are often the only way the poor can manage to pay for a major life event (such as a marriage or funeral), survive a natural disaster, or take advantage of a busines...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34184Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002
While the changing world of communications basic mission has not changed in the five years since the publication of Redirecting Mail, a great deal in the environment surrounding our sector has. The mo...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 25932Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002Autor:
Ianni, Juan B. ;
Lohmeyer, Jurgen
Many inhabitants of rural areas in developing countries lack adequate and affordable access to transport infrastructure and services. Improving rural people's access to essential services requires bet...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 44952Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002Autor:
Starkey, Paul ;
Ellis,Simon David ;
Hine,John L. ;
Ternell,Anna
In 1995, Argentina enacted a new modern insolvency law that substantially improved corporate liquidations and rehabilitations. After almost seven years of experience, some legal and institutional weak...
Tipo: Insolvency Assessment (ROSC)Informe#: 37454Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002
The note seeks to provide companies who are interested in addressing the topic of child labor with a range of basic, good practice approaches that other businesses have successfully applied in address...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 26766Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002
The aim of this paper, Glosario de terminus utilizados en los sistemas de pago y liquidaciones, a part of the Western Hemisphere Payments and Securities Clearance and Settlement Initiative, is to desc...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 45648Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002
The proliferation of urban slums is due in large part to obsolete regulatory, legal and institutional frameworks at the local level governing land use, development standards, land registration and tit...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24517Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002Autor:
Cira,Dean A.
An analyst using household survey data to construct a welfare metric is often confronted with onfronted with An analyst using household survey data to construct a welfare metric is often confronted wi...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: LSM135Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2002Autor:
Deaton, Angus ;
Zaidi, Salman
The report examines the gender dimensions of alcohol consumption, and alcohol-related problems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. It finds that alcohol use is one of the major causes of ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: WDP435Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2002Autor:
Claeson,Mariam ;
Correia,Maria C. ;
Pyne,Hnin Hnin
Despite their value, environmental services are often lost as land users typically receive no compensation for the services their land generates for others and therefore have no economic reason to tak...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 29671Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2002Autor:
Pagiola,Stefano P. ;
Platais,Gunars H.
These Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers (January 1997, revised September 1997, January 1999, and May 2002) replace the 1981 Guidelines: Use of Consultants by ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 95661Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2002
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