Although Nepal is among the world's poorest countries, it is a global leader in engaging communities in forest protection and management. Nepal's community forestry program, more than two decades old,...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24574Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2001Autor:
Campbell-Page, Elizabeth [editor-in-chief]
The continuing popularity of microfinance amongst the donor community has resulted in numbers of agencies in every developing country and transition economy seeking to support the development of the m...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33449Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2001
Chilean education is a model other countries may aspire to, but what can a country learn from Chile's experience if it does not have relatively high per capita income, low levels of corruption, capaci...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24569Fecha: 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#: 24839Fecha: 1 de junio de 2001Autor:
Kahkonen, Satu Kristiina Jyrintytar ;
Lanyi, Anthony
Most studies of microfinance programs in Bangladesh indicate that the poor, and especially poor women, have been effectively targeted, and that microfinance programs have been successful in opening up...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33451Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2001Autor:
Hashemi, Syed Mesbahuddin
The Operations Evaluation Department's (OED) 1999 evaluation of Bank assistance to Indonesia, found that projects were not sufficiently geared to poverty reduction, and that agriculture projects had n...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 23017Fecha: 31 de marzo de 2001Autor:
Campbel-Page, Elizabeth [editor] ;
Heath, John ;
McEuen, Caroline [editor] ;
McNees, Pat [editor]
A 120 million dollars loan to help Romania reform its transport institutions successfully supported the upgrading of Romania's national highways, commercialized and privatized road maintenance, and su...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 23019Fecha: 23 de marzo de 2001
The South Asia Region initiated a new strategy for assisting India's energy sector in 1993, promoting structural reform of state electricity boards and lending only to improve efficiency in distributi...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 23018Fecha: 23 de marzo de 2001
The World Bank's just-released "Global Economic Prospects and the Developing Countries 2001" reports that developing country growth surged to 5.3 percent in 2000, up from 3.2 percent in 1999 and 1.0 p...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22679Fecha: 28 de febrero de 2001Autor:
Aiyar, Swaminathan S.
What You Do Depends On Where You Are. Microfinance products tend to be uniform across large geographic areas. For example, in Bangladesh most microfinance institutions (MFIs) offer some variant of the...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33448Fecha: 1 de enero de 2001
With vision and an innovative spirit, Jordan launched a program of education reform in 1985, and continues to work toward the goal it embodies: to establish an educational system that will enable its ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22995Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2000Autor:
Dove, Linda Ankrah
The poverty assessment is a key instrument of the Bank's poverty reduction strategy. It is designed to assess the extent and causes of poverty in a given country and to propose a strategy to ameliorat...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22997Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2000Autor:
Carvalho, Soniya
Computerization is an important part of World Bank tax and customs projects. Revenue administration computerization projects should be seen in the broader context of public sector reforms. They touch ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 21600Fecha: 31 de octubre de 2000Autor:
Engelschalk, Michael ;
Melhem, Samia ;
Weist, Dana
This brief is based on proceedings from selected Bank Workshops on the evaluation of the effectiveness of gender dimensions within the Bank's development assistance. Participants concluded there is of...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 23012Fecha: 30 de septiembre de 2000Autor:
Gopal, Gita
The report reviews the Bank's experience with aid coordination, which lies at the intersection of many development effectiveness challenges. While globalization has brought new opportunities for devel...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 23013Fecha: 30 de septiembre de 2000Autor:
Eriksson, John R.
In 1999, the Indonesian Parliament adopted two laws requiring that drastic decentralization measures be implemented in fiscal 2001 in a "big bang" fashion. Several lessons can be drawn from Indonesia'...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 21599Fecha: 30 de septiembre de 2000Autor:
Ma, Jun ;
Hofman, Bert
The Bank's forest strategy brought the environmental agenda into the mainstream of the Bank's activities, and challenged the Bank group to adopt a multi-sectoral approach to conserving tropical moist ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 23015Fecha: 30 de septiembre de 2000Autor:
Lele, Uma ;
Kumar, Nalini B. ;
Husain, Syed Arif ;
Zazueta, Aaron Eduardo
As the microfinance industry matures, service providers are increasingly concerned with developing new and better products. This focus on new product development is a response to growing competition i...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33447Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2000
In 1990, a review of global experience showed that a strategy emphasizing broad-based growth and the equitable provision of social services was the most effective route for sustainable progress of pov...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 23014Fecha: 31 de agosto de 2000Autor:
Evans, Alison Margaret
The present products of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in East Africa explain the high rates of dropout and low outreach. The industry has adopted a small number of very similar imported ideas witho...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33445Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2000Autor:
Helms, Brigit S. ;
Matin, Imran
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