The proliferation of urban slums is due in large part to obsolete regulatory, legal and institutional frameworks at the local level governing land use, development standards, land registration and tit...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24517Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002Autor:
Cira, Dean A.
Despite their value, environmental services are often lost as land users typically receive no compensation for the services their land generates for others and therefore have no economic reason to tak...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 29671Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2002Autor:
Pagiola, Stefano P. ;
Platais, Gunars H.
This report makes several policy conclusions related to urban poverty and development in Uruguay and potentially the rest of Latin America. First, policies which prioritize improvements in access to q...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24499Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2002Autor:
Baker, Judy L.
This note synthesizes the findings of research on trade and labor in the region, including World Bank studies on: (i) trade and job quality, (ii) informality, and (iii) labor policies in the region. F...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24498Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2002Autor:
Gill, Indermit S. ;
Maloney, William F. ;
Sanchez-Paramo, Carolina
By many measures the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) is a highly successful NGO-run rural development program. It reaches some 900,000 people in about 1,100 villages in the Northern Areas and C...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27684Fecha: 1 de abril de 2002
The Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE) for Russia, covering the period from 1992 to 2001, showed disappointing but improving results for the World Bank's activities in the Russian Federation. Althoug...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27686Fecha: 1 de abril de 2002Autor:
Campbell-Page, Elizabeth [editor]
This paper presents the strategy of the World Bank Group. It provides an expansion of information on infrastructure in developing countries and transition economies. It summarizes also the main operat...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 88214Fecha: 1 de abril de 2002
The urban share of Bolivia's population has doubled since the late 1970s. Providing adequate water and sanitation services has proved a major challenge. To understand the lessons of the Bolivian exper...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24578Fecha: 23 de marzo de 2002Autor:
Campbell-Page, Elizabeth [editor-in-chief]
In 1997 more than 1.1 billion people in low- and middle-income countries lacked access to safe water supplies, and far more were without adequate sanitation. Today, 166 million people in 18 countries ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24577Fecha: 20 de marzo de 2002Autor:
Campbell-Page, Elizabeth [editor-in-chief]
The World Bank has a long history and extensive experience with cultural properties dating back to the reconstruction of postwar Europe. Since then, the Bank's approach to matters of culture has evolv...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24576Fecha: 1 de enero de 2002Autor:
Campbell-Page, Elizabeth [editor-in-chief]
The note looks at the strategy of the Malawi Social Action Fund (MASAF) in linking the roles of information, education, and communication (IEC), designed through a process known as "systematic client ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24109Fecha: 3 de diciembre de 2001Autor:
Chibwana, Bridget ;
Aryal, Mohan Prasad
Investments in rural water systems can have a profound impact on the economic activity and quality of life of the poor. As the Bank has increasingly focused on the poor, it has expanded work in rural ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24572Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2001Autor:
McEuen, Caroline [series editor]
This year's Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (ARDE) confirms that significant improvements have taken place in the Bank's development performance over the past five years. Despite a challeng...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 23016Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2001
This Resource Guide compares five of the better known microfinance institution (MFI) assessment services, and describes the challenges facing such assessments. It is part of a trilogy of the Consultat...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33452Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2001
This note looks at micro-credit as one element among many on a menu of possible interventions to generate income and employment, and alleviate poverty, including temporary poverty in post-crisis situa...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33450Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2001Autor:
Parker, Joan C.
Good governance-supported by monitoring and evaluation (M&E)-is essential for sustained and rapid development in Africa, concluded participants in the Johannesburg 2000 Workshop and Seminar on develop...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24570Fecha: 23 de septiembre de 2001Autor:
Campbell-Page, Elizabeth [editor-in-chief]
When the government of President Museveni assumed power in Uganda in 1986, it took over a shattered postwar economy. Market-oriented reforms led to a remarkable recovery. International Development Ass...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24571Fecha: 20 de septiembre de 2001Autor:
Campbell-Page, Elizabeth [editor-in-chief]
The Municipal Sector Investment Project, partly financed by a $75 million World Bank loan made in 1992, marked the successful beginning of a decentralization effort in Tunisia to strengthen municipali...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24568Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2001Autor:
Campbell-Page, Elizabeth [editor-in-chief]
When primary stakeholders-individuals and community-based organizations-participate in Bank activities, development relevance and outcomes improve. Project-supported activities tend to be more sustain...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24566Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2001Autor:
Campbell-Page, Elizabeth [editor-in-chief]
Decentralization holds a lot of promise, but whether it improves public service delivery depends on the institutional arrangements governing its implementation. Several conditions must be met before t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24840Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2001Autor:
Correia, Maria C.
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