The coverage of old-age protection systems is a central concern in developing countries. While most countries mandate that workers make contributions to a retirement-savings plan, fewer than ten per c...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33392Fecha: 1 de julio de 2005
Across the world, new measures are being introduced to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism. All financial service providers, including those working with low-income communities, are...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33459Fecha: 1 de julio de 2005Autor:
Bun, Chinyere Ugonnaya Egwuagu ;
Hernandez-Coss, Raul E. ;
Isem, Jennifer ;
Proteous, Davi
Roads, and means of transport, make a crucial contribution to economic development and growth and bring important social benefits. Poorly maintained roads constrain mobility, significantly raise vehic...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33925Fecha: 1 de junio de 2005Autor:
Burningham, Sally L. ;
Stankevich, Natalya
A document review of development policy lending projects in the Latin America and Caribbean Region, approved in fiscal years (FY) 2000-03 at the World Bank, reveals increasing civil society involvemen...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34209Fecha: 1 de junio de 2005Autor:
Arevalo, Blanche ;
Reuben, William
There is a vast potential market for retail financial services among low-income clients, and a growing number of commercial banks have successfully entered this market. These are the findings of recen...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33458Fecha: 1 de junio de 2005Autor:
Isem, Jennifer ;
Porteous, David John
The Caribbean region is at a development crossroads and its member nations must take significant and concrete steps to improve productivity and competitiveness and face up to global competition if the...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34208Fecha: 1 de junio de 2005Autor:
Blom, Andreas ;
Brenzel, Logan ;
Corlett, Michael ;
Hanson, James ;
Jha, Abhas Kumar ;
Kathuria, Sanjay ;
Nuamah, Camille Anne ;
Oberai, Rina Harpinder ;
Rouis, Mustapha ;
Ruppert Bulmer, Elizabeth N. ;
Tomlinson, Kevin A
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua introduced education decentralization reforms, including school-based management (SBM) in some schools. As applied in Central America, (SBM) is a decent...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34205Fecha: 1 de junio de 2005Autor:
Di Gropello, Emanuela
The note looks at poverty in Ecuador, assessing macroeconomic developments through its policies to maintain stability with fiscal discipline, and increase economic productivity and competitiveness, in...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34198Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2005Autor:
Sanchez, Carolina
A World Bank's Latin America and Caribbean Region's portfolio (projects) review was carried out with the aim of , (i) analyzing the reach of the Bank's Central America Environmentally and Socially Sus...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33227Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2005Autor:
Aoki, Sayo ;
Stubbs, Josefina
Brazil has developed a community-led, market-based approach to land reform in which poor rural laborers and farmers, either landless or with insufficient land for subsistence, form beneficiary associa...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34181Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2005Autor:
Coirolo, Luis O. ;
Roumani, Anna F.
Worldwide, the microfinance community is paying more attention to consumer protection. Controversial topics, such as high interest rates and the over-indebtedness of borrowers, have raised public conc...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33457Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2005Autor:
Helms, Brigit S. ;
Porteous, David John
The note questions how can potable, groundwater be affected by natural quality hazards, and discusses elements such as trace elements that can sometimes make it unfit of unacceptable for consumption, ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 32196Fecha: 1 de abril de 2005Autor:
Foster, James Stephen ;
Garduno, Hector ;
Kemper, Karin Erika ;
Koundouri, Phoebe ;
Nannin, Marcella ;
Tuinhof, Albert
The regional study, "drivers of sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction in Central America," carried out by the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Department of the Latin Amer...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33199Fecha: 1 de abril de 2005Autor:
Alwang, Jeffrey Roger ;
Pichon, Francisco J. ;
Raine, Martin ;
Siegel, Paul Bennett
This briefing note deals primarily with issues affecting initial development, and subsequent expansion of groundwater supplies, in areas underlain by minor aquifers, whose yield to water wells is both...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 32195Fecha: 1 de abril de 2005Autor:
Foster, James Stephen ;
Garduno, Hector ;
Kemper, Karin Erika ;
Koundourim Phoebe ;
Nanni, Marccella ;
Tuinhof, Albert
Effectively educating all citizens is difficult in a geographically disperse and culturally heterogeneous country such as Mexico. How should Mexico educate the type of students who speak no Spanish, l...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33205Fecha: 1 de abril de 2005Autor:
Moreno Trevino, Jorge ;
Patrinos, Harry Anthony ;
Shapiro, Joseph S.
"Whither Latin American Capital Markets?" a study published by the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank in June 2004, analyzes the status and prospects for capital market development i...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33198Fecha: 1 de abril de 2005Autor:
De La Torre, Augusto ;
Schmukler, Sergio L.
Central America's single most important educational challenge is improving learning at all levels. Improved learning is vital for individual and national growth, competitiveness, and quality of life. ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33196Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2005Autor:
Di Gropello, Emanuela
The Indigenous Peoples Leadership Capacity Building Program for the Andean Countries (Andean Program) is the result of an initiative of the Fund for the Development of Indigenous Peoples of Latin Amer...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33197Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2005Autor:
Uquillas Rodas, Jorge E.
Increasing access to basic infrastructure, and social services is critical to reducing poverty, and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, increasing access is a challenge because...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35540Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2005
The MECOVI program --short for "Programa para el Mejoramiento de las Encuestas de Hogares y la Medicion de Condiciones de Vida", a Spanish acronym for the Regional Program for Improvement of the Surve...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33124Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2005Autor:
Lee, Haeduck ;
Moncada Vigo, Gilberto A.
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