The paper reviews the challenges higher
education financing faces in Latin America and the
Caribbean, namely the political challenge of democracy,
technological cha...
Tipo: LAC Human & Social Development Group
Paper SeriesInforme#: 20933Fecha: 31 de diciembre de 1998Autor:
Salmi, Jamil ;
Alcala, Gabrielena
Poor urban populations are without
access to the water and sanitation services, despite sector
modernization. This has raised interest in the small-scale
and inform...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 33106Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 1998Autor:
Snell,Suzanne M.
Microfinance is the provision of banking
services for the poor. Over the past 20 years, the field has
been revolutionized as dozens of microfinance institutions
(MF...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 34259Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 1998Autor:
Holtz, Paul [editor] ;
Peck Christen, Robert ;
Rosenberg,Richard
Microfinance is the provision of banking
services for the poor. Over the past 20 years, the field has
been revolutionized as dozens of microfinance institutions
(MF...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 34259Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 1998Autor:
Holtz, Paul [editor] ;
Peck Christen, Robert ;
Rosenberg,Richard
The study explores the unprecedented
growth in secondary educational attendance, during 1985-1995
in Colombia, which nonetheless, has not been analogous to
that of ...
Tipo: LAC Human & Social Development Group
Paper SeriesInforme#: 20934Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 1998Autor:
Rodriguez, Alberto ;
Jimenez, Luis Jaime Pineros
This note focuses on export processing
zones as potential, useful tools in export promotion, and,
outlines the general features, and objectives of these
zones, high...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 21234Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 1998Autor:
Madani,Dorsati H.
This report is a summary of country
studies in Latin America and the Caribbean, addressing the
use of market-based instruments (MBIs) and
command-and-control (CAC) ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: WDP381Fecha: 30 de noviembre de 1998Autor:
Huber, Richard M. ;
Ruitenbeek, Jack ;
Seroa da Motta,Ronaldo
This study began as an update of
promising practices in teacher education programs that have
been particularly successful in enhancing student learning
in their own...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 19009Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 1998Autor:
Craig, Helen J. ;
Kraft, Richard J. ;
du Plessis, Jo
The first version of the Miniglossary on
AIDS was highly selective, covered only the key areas
relating to AIDS, and the medical terms were only given in
English an...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 35764Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 1998
This issue focuses on the experience of
private sector involvement in Global Environment Facility
(GEF) projects from Batangas Bay in the Philippines. The
Batangas ...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 21208Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 1998Autor:
Harstad, Jarle [editor]
Indigenous people make up a large and
distinct portion of Latin America's population. While
the incidence of poverty is high in Latin America, it is
particularly se...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 13551Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 1998Autor:
Psacharopoulos, George ;
Patrinos, Harry Anthony [
The report explores the current,
unquestioned time schedules in educational learning in the
Latin America, and the Caribbean region, - a model
instituted as of the ...
Tipo: LAC Human & Social Development Group
Paper SeriesInforme#: 18837Fecha: 31 de octubre de 1998Autor:
Martinic, Sergio
The study determines how local level
institutions - both Government and civil society - impact
local development, particularly the manner by which these
institution...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 22808Fecha: 31 de octubre de 1998Autor:
Ascarrunz, Beatriz ;
Balboa, Alfredo ;
Cordova, Julio ;
Gonzales, Griselda ;
Sandoval,Godofredo ;
Velasques, Gloria
The International Finance Corporation
(IFC) has prepared this manual on public consultation on
information disclosure. Its primary function is to provide
good pract...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 19358Fecha: 31 de octubre de 1998Autor:
Miller, Shawn ;
Sequeira,Debra
The model presented in this paper
presents a view of the relevance of the higher education in
the 21st century that begins from the changes that are
taking place in...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 19717Fecha: 31 de octubre de 1998Autor:
GIBBONS, MICHAEL
Following earlier initiatives by the
World Bank Institute, on the subject of national systems to
evaluate academic achievement, the report endorses previous
recomme...
Tipo: LAC Human & Social Development Group
Paper SeriesInforme#: 18836Fecha: 31 de octubre de 1998Autor:
Rojas C., Carlos ;
Esquivel, Juan Manuel
This report summarizes the discussions
from the "Forum on Poverty, Inequality, and
Vulnerability," organized in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
on October 19-20, 1998, by ...
Tipo: Departmental Working PaperInforme#: 19682Fecha: 20 de octubre de 1998
The World Bank has helped Albania,
Georgia, and Latvia measure corruption and design strategies
to combat it and improve governance. This note explains how
empirica...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 18572Fecha: 1 de octubre de 1998Autor:
Kaufmann, Daniel ;
Pradhan, Sanjay ;
Ryterman, Randi
This paper reviews the current status of
national policies for quality assurance. It offers a brief
assessment of recent trends and identifies some areas of
emergin...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 21199Fecha: 1 de octubre de 1998Autor:
El-Khawas, Elaine ;
DePietro-Jurand, Robin ;
Holm-Nielsen, Lauritz
The most important change in the
educational sector begun during the decade of the eighties
and intensified during the nineties is the growth of global
competition....
Tipo: LAC Human & Social Development Group
Paper SeriesInforme#: 18833Fecha: 30 de septiembre de 1998Autor:
Delannoy, Francoise
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