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
Why do microfinance institutions (MFIs) charge such high interest rates to the poor? This brief highlights some of the key issues related to microcredit interest rates and the role of donors. Microcr...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34186Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2002Autor:
Goodwin-Groen, Ruth Patricia
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been adopted by the international community as a series of development targets to be accomplished over the period 1990-2015. The MDGs are an expanded set o...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26717Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2002Autor:
Hicks, Norman L. ;
Wodon, Quentin T.
According to the World Resources Institute, at current rates of deforestation and land clearance, 5 to 10 percent of tropical forest biodiversity will vanish over the next three decades. There are man...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27685Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2002
According to the International Labor Organization, 120 million children work full-time worldwide. Virtually all live in poor countries. Legislation has been passed to ban child labor, but it is not en...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26720Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2002Autor:
Harry Anthony Patrinos, and Christiaan Grootaert
Among policymakers and economists, there is a widely held perception that microenterprises1 face severe financing shortages that limit their growth opportunities. Resolving the problems of access to f...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26716Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2002Autor:
Susana M. Sanchez, Sophie Sirtaine, and Rita Valente
Social security remains the single most important fiscal issue facing the federal, and sub-national governments in Brazil today. The structure, and administrative weaknesses of Brazil's social securit...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26715Fecha: 30 de julio de 2002Autor:
Packard, Truman,Yermo, Juan,Gill, Indermit
Afro-Colombians make up 90 percent of the population in the rainforest-covered Chocó region along Colombia's Pacific coast. In 1994, the World Bank approved a Natural Resources Management Program to h...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91735Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002
Two of the main obstacles to improving public health services for Mexico's poor have been the population dispersion in rural areas, and the difficult geographic obstacles to reaching those in remote v...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91737Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002
The CrediAmigo microfinance program in Brazil, managed by the Banco do Nordeste (BN) shows how an international financial institution like the World Bank can be a useful catalyst in the development of...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33453Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002Autor:
Peck Christen, Robert ;
Schonberger, Steven N.
Magdalena Medio is one of the poorest and most violent areas of Colombia and a microcosm of the actors and issues underlying Colombia's armed conflict with guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries, with ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26714Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002
In 1999 confronted by some of the most bleak health indicators in Latin America, the Bolivian government asked the World Bank to help it with a program to bring better health care to poor families thr...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91758Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002
This Results Profiles focuses on the Judicial Reform Project for Ecuador. The project aims at increasing efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency in judicial process by: 1) improving administratio...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91746Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002
As in any society, access to information and the ability to communicate are essential if people are to participate in economic development. In five countries of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean S...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91745Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002
This Results Profile focuses on the Rural Road Rehabilitation and Maintenance Project for Peru. This project will reduce rural poverty and integrate remote zones through the rehabilitation of the tran...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91747Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002
In 1990, Brazil had one of the world's largest numbers of reported acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) cases in the world. In 1993, the World Bank approved 160 million dollars for the AIDS and s...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91734Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002
For 30 years, grants have been controversial as a World Bank operational instrument. In practice, they have proven useful in circumstances where an important development need could not be met through ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27688Fecha: 21 de junio de 2002
As they undertook the difficult transition to a market economy, the countries of Eastern Europe found that they needed to radically reform their health sectors. The scope, pace, and outcome of the ref...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27689Fecha: 21 de junio de 2002Autor:
Campbell0Page, Elizabeth (editor-in-chief)
Roughly 2.6 million high-efficiency light bulbs were sold below-cost to residential consumers of electricity in two Mexican cities as part of a pilot demonstration project for high-efficiency lighting...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27683Fecha: 21 de junio de 2002Autor:
MCEven, Caroline (series editor)
The poor save all the time. Savings are often the only way the poor can manage to pay for a major life event (such as a marriage or funeral), survive a natural disaster, or take advantage of a busines...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34184Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002
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