Board assessment is a governance practice established to ensure that a board effectively performs its duties. Over the past decade, knowledge about board assessment and what it can and cannot do for b...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 88409Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2016Autor:
Walton, Elise
El progreso económico que ha registrado el Perú en las últimas dos décadas ha permitido ofrecer una mayor cantidad de servicios públicos, mejorar la infraestructura y financiar programas sociales. Sin...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 109102Fecha: 10 de enero de 2016
Natural disasters can cause unthinkable tolls and continue to disproportionately affect the poorest and most vulnerable. The number of climate related disasters alone in the last decade is nearly twic...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166569Fecha: 5 de enero de 2016
Growth in the tourism sector is also supported by natural assets such as clean beaches, attractive landscapes and plentiful wildlife. Tourism has emerged as a driver of growth for many emerging econom...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166724Fecha: 7 de diciembre de 2015
Located along the Pacific coast in what’s known as the Central American Dry Corridor, Bajo Lempa features everything from hillsides covered in coffee plantations, to flood-prone coastal plains where f...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166780Fecha: 4 de diciembre de 2015
This story highlights the transport is a significant piece of the climate solution. Transport contributes 23 percent of energy related CO2 emissions and demand for transport services is rising. The Mu...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166804Fecha: 2 de diciembre de 2015
A decade of interventions, supported by the TerrAfrica partnership, has shown that the fight against land degradation is achievable and replicable at scale. Created in 2005 with the support of the Wor...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166769Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2015
Morocco’s vision of inclusive green growth is based on better management of natural resources to generate more jobs, value and wellbeing from existing assets. The end of fossil fuel subsidies has favo...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166650Fecha: 23 de noviembre de 2015
This story highlights in Bangladesh, 61 million children suffer from malnutrition and other developmental problems. Most Bangladeshi children lack appropriate stimulation and early learning opportunit...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166512Fecha: 20 de noviembre de 2015
When residents tell tourists that it never rains in Lima, they are a mere .3 inches from the truth. Climate change threatens the future of water in Lima, where 1.5 million residents are underserved. T...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166775Fecha: 5 de octubre de 2015
The term shadow banking came into widespread usage with the onset of the global financial crisis to refer to a broad array of entities and activities operating outside the regular banking system that ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 103208Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2015Autor:
Lyman, Timothy ;
Shrader, Leesa Wilson ;
Tomilova, Olga
At the turn of the century, the Millennium Development Goals related to education committed the world to getting all children into primary school, and to ensuring gender parity in schooling. Since the...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 99325Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2015
After an economic crisis in Argentina in 2001 plunged millions of people there into poverty and worsened health outcomes, especially for women and children, the government crafted a new, national plan...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 100060Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2015Autor:
Celhay, Pablo A. ;
Gertler, Paul J. ;
Giovagnoli, Paula ;
Vermeersch, Christel M. J.
This story highlights the motorbikes have become essential in ensuring access to remote artisanal and small-scale mining sites of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The World Bank, along with the DRC...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166506Fecha: 13 de agosto de 2015
Every year, about 13 million hectares of forest land are cut down and converted to other uses. By some counts, only a quarter of the world’s original old-growth forests remain. But forests are vital, ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166683Fecha: 7 de agosto de 2015
In 1998, Hurricane Mitch swept across Central America causing unprece¬dented damage in its wake. In Nicaragua, over 3,000 people lost their lives and hundreds of thousands were left homeless due to re...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 99268Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2015
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