The note provides an introduction to groundwater resource management, its scope and practice, and aims at clarifying the difference between surface water and groundwater, as follows. Groundwater diffe...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30089Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Dumars, Charles ;
Foster, James Stephen ;
Garduno, Hector ;
Kemper, Karin Erika ;
Nanni, Marcella ;
Tuinhof, Albert
The note reviews country legislation over groundwater resources, specifying many governments have introduced legislation to regulate groundwater development, and to constrain activities that might com...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30092Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Dumars, Charles ;
Foster, James Stephen ;
Garduno, Hector ;
Kemper, Karin Erika ;
Nanni, Marcella ;
Tuinhof, Albert
Over the past 40 years, "active" labor market programs (ALMPs) have emerged as an important employment policy tool. Their objective is primarily economic - to increase the probability that the unempl...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30131Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2002Autor:
Dar, Amit ;
Whitehead, Tim [editor]
Employment protection - the set of rules governing hiring and terminating employees - is a key feature of any country's labor market. What types of contracts will be permitted between employers and em...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30130Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2002Autor:
Betcherman, Gordon ;
Whitehead, Tim [editor]
The international community has made a strong commitment to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Many donor agencies want to know whether microfinance, or financial services for the poor, is an ef...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34189Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2002Autor:
Sananikone, Ousa
The increasing complexity of development challenges over the past decade has been addressed by heightened efforts of governments, voluntary organizations, and external assistance agencies to learn fro...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24575Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2002Autor:
Campbell-Page, Elizabeth [editor-in-chief]
One of the challenges of rural poverty reduction in Latin America is to enhance non-farm economic activity, diversify employment, and foster enterprise activity. Although poverty has decreased over th...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26725Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2002Autor:
Maria-Valeria Junho Pena, and Kathryn Johns Swartz
Chile's scientific community garners well-deserved respect in the region and worldwide. The country has made significant and fruitful efforts to move towards a leadership position in research among in...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26726Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2002Autor:
Holm-Nielsen, Lauritz B. ;
Norsworthy, Leonid Alexander
Poor people need financial services to seize business opportunities, to invest in home improvements, and to meet seasonal expenses like school fees and holiday celebrations. They also need financial s...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34188Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2002Autor:
Craig, Kim
The beginning of the new millennium finds the Latin America and Caribbean region having made progress on several fronts. Health and education indicators continue to improve and all but one country hos...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26723Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2002
Reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that affect climate change is one of the key challenges facing the international community. The Bank's Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF) provi...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26724Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2002Autor:
Fernandez-Asin, Francisco
The Northeast region of Brazil has long been the single largest pocket of rural poverty in Latin America. With a combined area of 1.6 million square kilometers-16 percent of Brazil's total-the Northea...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26722Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2002Autor:
Luis Coirolo, and Tulio Barbosa
The Conflict Analysis Framework (CAF), developed by the CPR Unit, aims to integrate sensitivity to conflict in Bank assistance, and to help Bank teams consider factors affecting both conflict and pove...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 25563Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2002Autor:
Shardesai, Shonali ;
Wam, Per
Public primary schooling in Brazil is the responsibility of state and municipal governments and not under the direct jurisdiction of the federal Ministry of Education. As a consequence, when the feder...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26721Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2002Autor:
Horn, Robin Scott
In 1999, 40 percent of the deforestation within the Amazon region took place in Brazil's Mato Grasso agricultural state, which spans almost 91 million hectares and is home to 2.5 million people. In re...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91786Fecha: 17 de septiembre de 2002
Since traditional coffee cultivation can harm the ecosystem, efforts have been made to develop methods that will help maintain biodiversity. Shade-grown coffee seems to be one answer. As part of a Cof...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91794Fecha: 17 de septiembre de 2002
With more than half of its two million inhabitants living in unplanned squatter settlements, the Venezuelan capital of Caracas is faced with immense challenge in delivering basic services to its peopl...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91790Fecha: 17 de septiembre de 2002
This Results Profile briefly mentions the World Bank's $2 billion in loans to support the Brazilian government's water resource activities. As a result, the number of people with a reliable access to ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91944Fecha: 17 de septiembre de 2002
Under the Program for Normalization of Informal Areas, Light Serviços de Electricidade SA, Rio's main power provider, is working in the city's low-income communities to establish and upgrade power net...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91943Fecha: 17 de septiembre de 2002
OED's first Annual Report on Evaluation Capacity Development (AREC) finds that the World Bank is increasing its support for Evaluation Capacity Development (ECD) activities and is currently active in ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27641Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2002
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