Decentralization holds a lot of promise, but whether it improves public service delivery depends on the institutional arrangements governing its implementation. Several conditions must be met before t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24839Fecha: 1 de junio de 2001Autor:
Kahkonen,Satu Kristiina Jyrintytar ;
Lanyi, Anthony
This study on micro water supply systems deals with the sustainability of water supply systems in multiple locations. The study was initiated in response to a request from the New Delhi office of the ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 43618Fecha: 1 de junio de 2001
A GEF special study on stakeholder participation and social issues, including science and technology, was conducted for 30 GEF-financed biodiversity conservation and sustainable use projects which hav...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 26783Fecha: 1 de junio de 2001Autor:
Harstad, Jarle [editor]
This report is a summary of the 2001 Global Development Finance (GDF) publication. It contains analysis and commentary on recent developments in international finance, with particular focus on the gl...
Tipo: Global Development Finance - formerly World Debt TablesInforme#: 27748Fecha: 30 de mayo de 2001
Most studies of microfinance programs in Bangladesh indicate that the poor, and especially poor women, have been effectively targeted, and that microfinance programs have been successful in opening up...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33451Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2001Autor:
Hashemi,Syed Mesbahuddin
The World Bank Institute (WBI) has responded to the challenges of urban development and city management by launching a number of important initiatives. Chief among these is the program on Urban Challe...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 21642Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2001Autor:
Freire, Mila ;
Stren, Richard [editors]
Editorial - community contracting, and empowerment. Notes for capacity building methods : the two waters; by Mercedes Zevallos, UNICEF. El Ingenio, Nasca : La Asociacion de Usuarios, an alternative mo...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 34803Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2001Autor:
Randin, Nicolas ;
Valencia, Luis ;
Vasquez Becerra, Jorge ;
Vera Villanueva,Rafael ;
Zevallos Castaneda,Maria Mercedes
Since the 1997-98 financial crises in emerging markets, considerable progress has been made in identifying the components of the global financial system and in articulating and applying standards and ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 48165Fecha: 1 de abril de 2001
Social investment funds are being used in a growing number of countries, to alleviate the impact of political, social, and economic crises, cushion the impact of adjustment programs, generate employme...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 23162Fecha: 1 de abril de 2001Autor:
Weissman,Juliana
The paper presents the main approaches, and tools to measuring poverty, and vulnerability. This involves among other things, the important issues of the setting of poverty lines, of the statistical us...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 25534Fecha: 1 de abril de 2001Autor:
Duclos, Jean-Ives
The objectives of this document are: a) Complement the social study started in 1994, specifically in relation to the socio-cultural, political and economic profile of the indigenous peoples of Guatema...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 64939Fecha: 1 de abril de 2001Autor:
TOVAR GOMEZ, MARCELA
After reviewing the current state of standards and trade in Central America, the authors suggest top priorities for reform from a trade policy perspective in a new and increasingly important area of p...
Tipo: Policy Research Working PaperInforme#: WPS2576Fecha: 31 de marzo de 2001Autor:
Hufbauer, Gary Clyde ;
Kotschwar, Barbara ;
Wilson,J
The Operations Evaluation Department's (OED) 1999 evaluation of Bank assistance to Indonesia, found that projects were not sufficiently geared to poverty reduction, and that agriculture projects had n...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 23017Fecha: 31 de marzo de 2001Autor:
Campbel-Page, Elizabeth [editor] ;
Heath, John ;
McEuen, Caroline [editor] ;
McNees, Pat [editor]
A 120 million dollars loan to help Romania reform its transport institutions successfully supported the upgrading of Romania's national highways, commercialized and privatized road maintenance, and su...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 23019Fecha: 23 de marzo de 2001
The South Asia Region initiated a new strategy for assisting India's energy sector in 1993, promoting structural reform of state electricity boards and lending only to improve efficiency in distributi...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 23018Fecha: 23 de marzo de 2001
Nowhere has the commercialization of microfinance proceeded more rapidly than in Latin America. A few years ago, microfinance was the exclusive domain of non-profit organizations and cooperative socie...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 33462Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2001Autor:
Cook,Tamara B. ;
Peck Christen, Robert
Editorial - sustainable rural sanitation and new investments, APRISABAC : conclusions of a rural water and sanitation experience (1993-2000); by Raul Reyes V., CER-AGUA. SER, Asociacion de servicios e...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 34802Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2001Autor:
Reyes V., Raul ;
Aguero Pittman, Roger ;
Valencia, Luis ;
Rojas,Ricardo ;
Mcgregor Arnao,Jorge Luis ;
Lampoglia,Teresa ;
Alarcon, Eloy ;
Pesantes, Mariamalia
The study looks at recent analytical work concerning social issues in Argentina, which suggest both inequality, and unemployment are worsening, aggravated by pessimism and despair - partly shaped by a...
Tipo: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportInforme#: 24281Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2001
Many countries suffer from high levels of water and sanitation-related diseases that affect the poorer segments of society, and children in particular. To break the transmission routes of these diseas...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38736Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2001
Renewable energy technologies are attracting ever-increasing investments as fossil fuels become more expensive to extract and use. The world's largest industry is the production and transmission of en...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 33981Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2001
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