Cyclical droughts have had a severe impact on the socio-economic development of the Ceara State in Northeast Brazil. In the 1980s, the State initiated an ambitious program to overcome the impact of dr...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92576Fecha: 13 de diciembre de 2005
The basket weaving project is an initiative of the non-governmental organization (NGO) saude e alegria (health and happiness), a local partner of the World Bank rain forest unit and the pilot program....
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92574Fecha: 13 de diciembre de 2005
The government has invested heavily in the prevention and treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92409Fecha: 13 de diciembre de 2005
Although primary education enrollment in Ceara is over 95 percent, the quality of education is poor as revealed by national student assessments. Dropout rates are a high 11 percent and completion rate...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92407Fecha: 13 de diciembre de 2005
The Brazilian Amazon is a major source of tropical hardwoods, gross sales of which generate an estimated $1 billion a year. However, most timber extraction occurs in an unplanned and often illegal fas...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92580Fecha: 13 de diciembre de 2005
Brazil's conditional cash transfer (CCT) program Bolsa Familia helped millions out of the poverty and is among the most effective social protection programs in the world, having helped raise approxima...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92408Fecha: 13 de diciembre de 2005
A two-day workshop, organized by the World Banks Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) and Human Development (HD) departments, was held in June 2005 in the Dominican Republic with the objec...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35523Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2005Autor:
Bain, Katherine A. ;
Braun, Franka ;
Saavedra, Jaime
Chile successfully completed the first generation of reforms during the 1980's and 1990's. Privatization, deregulation, trade liberalization, and sound fiscal and monetary policies were pursued over s...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34644Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2005Autor:
Panzardi, Roberto O.
The Argentine government has adopted a strategy that emphasizes rebuilding the economy with a view to delivering sustained growth with social inclusion - an appropriate goal in view of the high degree...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34645Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2005Autor:
Valdovinos, Carlos Fernandez
Despite being one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1990s, a series of unfortunate events drove the Dominican Republic in 2003, to a rapid decline in its s...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34643Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2005Autor:
Carlson, Samuel C. ;
John-Abraham, Indu
Ignoring gender in the planning and evaluation of credit and transfer programs can lead to erroneous conclusions about who benefits from them. Access to institutional credit and targeted transfers can...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34967Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2005Autor:
McKernan, Signe-Mary ;
Rivero-Fuentes, Maria Estela
Many governments in the Latin America and Caribbean region (LAC) have gained an increased understanding of the value of M&E to help both governments and donors alike better understand what public inve...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34642Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2005Autor:
Burdescu, Ruxandra ;
Mackay, Keith ;
Rojas, Fernando ;
Saavedra, Jaime ;
Del Villar Baston, Azul
Data gathered during studies conducted over the past four years in Mexico City, Mexico (Distrito Federal); Bogota, Colombia, and in several Brazilian cities suggests that in these countries somewhere ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34212Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2005Autor:
Solo, Tova M.
The purpose of this note is to review the worldwide experience with the performance-based contracting (PBC) approach, highlight the main advantages, the steps involved and the results generated. The d...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33947Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2005Autor:
Queiroz, Cesar Augusto ;
Qureshi, Navaid A. ;
Stankevich, Natalya
Many microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing and transition economies have received foreign funding, especially the larger MFIs, and, in recent years, bilateral and multilateral donors have pro...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34127Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2005Autor:
Ivatury, Gautam J. ;
Abrams, Julie Barnett
This note reviews the available evidence on developing effective policies against child labor, outlining it requires attention to gender differences among working children. This is so because standard...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33753Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2005Autor:
Holtz, Paul [editor]
The tax treatment of funded pensions is a critical policy choice in pension reform. In countries with mature funded systems, like the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33389Fecha: 13 de julio de 2005Autor:
Whitehouse, Edward R.
The transition from a wholly public, pay-as-you go pension system to one where pensions are also provided by individual, privately managed pension accounts does not directly affect those receiving pen...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33388Fecha: 12 de julio de 2005
Gender equality is an important indicator of a country's progress toward sustainable development and is one of the Millennium Development Goals. Yet World Bank teams often find gender equality a diffi...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34211Fecha: 1 de julio de 2005Autor:
Bhansali, Lisa
This note centers on the Honduras Access to Land Pilot Project (PACTA). PACTA's objectives are twofold, to: (1) facilitate access to land for landless households through the land market; and (2) promo...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34210Fecha: 1 de julio de 2005Autor:
Galeana, Fernando ;
Korczowski, Thomas J. ;
Pichon, Francisco J. ;
Reyes, Hiska Noemi
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