This article discusses the poverty and inequality which remain the most important medium to long-term development challenges for Brazil and notes that there is no single, simple or quick solution to t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 28433Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2003Autor:
Carletto, Andre L. ;
Verner, Dorte
In social protection, Costa Rica has a well-established social assistance network to protect vulnerable groups, but it does not adequately reach the very poor. Costa Rica is not likely to be able to r...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 53805Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2003Autor:
Ribe, Helena G. ;
Víquez, Roxana
A Central America Free Trade Area (CAFTA) has been under negotiation since January 2003. A World Bank report, Opportunities and Challenges for the Agricultural and Agroindustrial Sectors of Central A...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 28432Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2003Autor:
Monge-Gonzales, Ricardo ;
Loria-Sagot, Miguel ;
Gonzalez-Vega, Claudio
The majority of the world's poor live in rural areas. Yet most lack access to the range of financial services they need. Financial services available to them are relatively costly or rigid, whether fr...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34195Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2003Autor:
Pearce, Douglas
Natural disasters made two and a half million people homeless in Latin America between 1990 and 1999. The region has been plagued with an average of 30 disasters causing 7,500 fatalities a year for 30...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35657Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2003Autor:
Fay, Marianne ;
Ghesquiere, Francis ;
Solo, Tova M.
In 1996 the World Bank launched a comprehensive knowledge sharing initiative, based on the understanding that development knowledge is a global public good that belongs to everyone, and from which eve...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 37226Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2003Autor:
Gwin, Catherine
The article discusses the 20th century opportunities for rapid natural resource-based growth that Latin America systematically missed. Even if it were the case that resource abundant countries have ex...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 28431Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2003Autor:
Maloney, William F.
This article shares some experiences with different techniques for estimating economic benefits and costs used by the Bank in appraising urban upgrading projects . The projects usually combine infras...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 28430Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2003Autor:
Sotomayor Araujo, Maria Angelica
The United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have galvanized the development community with an urgent challenge to improve the welfare of the world's neediest people. Donor agencies are ori...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33454Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2003Autor:
Hashemi, Syed Mesbahuddin ;
Littlefield, Elizabeth L. ;
Morduch, Jonathan J.
The Nuestras Rais Program (NR) was created in Honduras in 1995 after massive ethnic demonstrations, in which people protested poor access to basic public services and demanded more access roads (and l...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 28429Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2003Autor:
Traa-Valarezo, Ximena B. ;
Rodriguez Meza, Jorge Luis
The note looks at tobacco from the health perspective, and at how to reduce its use, since smoking is becoming the single biggest cause of death worldwide, particularly affecting the developing countr...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 23179Fecha: 1 de julio de 2003
The municipal development program was an innovative project whose aim, at first, was strengthening the leadership capacity of afro-descendants and later grew to include several community organizations...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27113Fecha: 1 de julio de 2003Autor:
Josefina Stubbs, and Hiska Reyes
Donors want to ensure a social return on their investment. In the case of microfinance, donors must judge whether providing the poor with access to financial services yields a sufficient social return...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34193Fecha: 1 de julio de 2003Autor:
Cohen, Monique
Well-managed tourism can be an important contributor to sustainable development, providing incentives to protect the environment and maintain biodiversity, while fostering small business development. ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27111Fecha: 30 de junio de 2003Autor:
Valdivieso, Jose ;
Toth, Bob ;
Hanna, James C. ;
Quintero, Juan
This issue is based on the publication entitled, Toward Country-Led Development: A Multi-Partner Evaluation of the Comprehensive Development Framework. The evaluation was designed and overseen by a 30...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27652Fecha: 1 de junio de 2003Autor:
Mceuen, Caroline K.
The note looks at what it takes for countries, and firms to "learn how to learn". Education is vital, for at least two reasons. First, it has always been a critical complement to technological advance...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27110Fecha: 30 de mayo de 2003Autor:
Perry, Guillermo
Smoking harms the health of smokers and those around them. Smokers are at far higher risks of strokes, heart attacks and other cardiovascular diseases; cancers of the lungs, mouth, larynx, bladder, pa...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 53656Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2003
Colombia is one of the most active Latin American countries in incorporating private sector participation (PSP) in managing water utilities. One of the community's main concerns is that reforms that t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26911Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2003Autor:
Sotomayor Araujo, Maria Angelica
To reach large numbers of people, microfinance must eventually move into institutions that are licensed and supervised by a country's financial authorities. A licensed institution can offer savings se...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34192Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2003Autor:
Rosenberg, Richard
The consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) was established in 1971 to scale up years of effort by the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations in supporting four international agric...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27646Fecha: 1 de abril de 2003
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