In 1999, between 750 000 and 880 000 persons died in road crashes worldwide, and another 23 to 34 million people were injured. The situation is particularly critical in low and middle income countries...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 53653Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2004
In the province of Manabi, Ecuador, the Poverty Reduction and Local Rural Development Project (PROLOCAL) has partnered with a group of community based organizations to harness a community radio's pote...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30732Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2004Autor:
Pichon, Francisco J. ;
Rueda, Manuel ;
Santi, Emanuele
Inadequate sanitation and housing threaten the lives and health of 600 million urban dwellers worldwide. By applying good microfinance practice to housing finance, a range of financial institutions ar...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34240Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2004Autor:
Brusky, Bonnie
Throughout the development of the microfinance industry, network support organizations (NSOs) have played a critical role in launching new institutions, developing standards, wholesaling funds, provid...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33456Fecha: 1 de julio de 2004Autor:
Cook, Tamara B. ;
Isem, Jennifer
The Dominican Republic has 120,000 persons living with AIDS (PLWAs), 9 times the total number of reported cases. About 20,000 people have died from AIDS in the last decade. HIV/AIDS is the leading cau...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30729Fecha: 1 de julio de 2004Autor:
Marquez, Patricio Vicente ;
Montalvo, Luis Emilio
Historically, governments have used credit schemes as a way to transfer resources to specific target populations. The negative impact of most of these schemes has led many donors and experts to advoca...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34239Fecha: 30 de junio de 2004Autor:
Duflos, Eric Bertrand Pierre ;
Imboden, Kathryn
This brief includes the following headings: introduction; building on experience - scaling up; two sizes, two approaches; results on the ground; ensuring provision of services to the poor; beyond the ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30730Fecha: 1 de junio de 2004Autor:
Libhaber, Menahem ;
Troyano, Fernando ;
Ulloa, Luis Fernando
El Salvador's Education with Community Participation Program(EDUCO) began in 1991, from State and local communities' efforts to create pre-school and basic education services in rural areas. EDUCO bec...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30731Fecha: 1 de junio de 2004Autor:
De Varela, lorena ;
Guzman, Jose Luis ;
Meza Lara, Darlyn Xiomara
Interest rate ceilings are found in many countries throughout the world. With the expansion of microfinance in developing countries, many legislators and the general public have found it difficult to ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34238Fecha: 30 de mayo de 2004Autor:
Duval, Ann
In 1998, Turkey embarked on a program of poverty reduction on an epic scale. Virtually overnight, it extended compulsory primary school education from five years to eight. The program cost an average ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92559Fecha: 3 de mayo de 2004
In 1998, the Yemeni government with support from the World Bank through the Social Fund for Development created the Small and Microenterprise Development Program to help build local capacity to provid...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92561Fecha: 3 de mayo de 2004
At 19, Katya Arsenova is not that much older, and, in some cases, is a few years younger than the people she is helping to organize. She believes she has one primary skill to offer: the ability to def...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92550Fecha: 3 de mayo de 2004
Girls from desperately poor families in rural Bangladesh are having secondary education funded through an innovative stipend program funded by the government and the World Bank allowing students to re...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92557Fecha: 3 de mayo de 2004
Does trade improve prospects for women's employment and promote greater gender equality in wages? Trade creates or expands some activities and destroys or diminishes others. If an individual works in ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30200Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2004Autor:
Swamy, Gurushri N.
Reducing Nicaragua's high maternal mortality rate of 150 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births is a priority in the Government's Health Plan and Poverty Reduction Strategy. Efforts to improve repro...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30726Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2004Autor:
Fernandez Diaz, Jesus Maria ;
Ruiz Abril, Maria Elena
Downsizing programs are an important part of many public sector reforms supported by the World Bank. Although these programs can reduce budget deficits and address inefficiencies caused by state-led d...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30198Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004Autor:
Razzaz, Susan R.
Health care waste management (HCWM) is a process to help ensure proper hospital hygiene and safety of health care workers and communities. It includes planning and procurement, construction, staff tra...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 53652Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004
The first case of HIV/AIDS was detected in Barbados in 1984. At that time, HIV/AIDS was viewed more as a consequence of risky personal behavior by men who have sex with men than as a public health iss...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30724Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004Autor:
Marquez, Patricio Vicente
Brazil enjoys human and natural resources unavailable to most countries. Its assets include a diverse, energetic population and a vast territory that encompasses the world's largest rain forest and up...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30725Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004Autor:
Furtado, Angela C.
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