A World Bank project in Honduras has helped make justice accessible to many people who previously struggled with an inefficient, outdated, opaque judicial system. Through a range of activities, from t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 93576Fecha: 10 de mayo de 2012
Over the past two decades, Nigers social indicators have improved significantly. The gross primary school enrollment rate increased from about 29 percent in the early 1990s to 76 percent in 2011 and ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 93575Fecha: 9 de mayo de 2012
A flagship government education program in India, the largest of its kind in the world, has succeeded in bringing more than 17 million children to school that had previously been left outside the scho...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 93512Fecha: 9 de mayo de 2012
Using a reform-based loan from the International Development Association (IDA), India has successfully improved the quality of vocational training provided by 400 industrial training institutes (ITI) ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 93510Fecha: 9 de mayo de 2012
The project makes a significant contribution to the Karnataka government’s reform and development program for the health sector by supporting policy and legislative reform, innovations in health finan...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 93503Fecha: 9 de mayo de 2012
The Government of India estimates that about 2.4 million Indians are living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), ranking the country third globally in number of people with HIV and acquired immuno...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 93505Fecha: 9 de mayo de 2012
Bangladesh has sustained an impressive track record for growth and development. In the past decade, the economy has grown at nearly 6 percent per annum despite frequent natural disasters and the fuel,...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 93571Fecha: 9 de mayo de 2012
From its inception in 2008, an innovative project backed by the World Bank has provided over two million targeted stipends for secondary education in Bangladesh, 60 percent of which are provided for g...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 93484Fecha: 8 de mayo de 2012
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes mellitus and chronic respiratory diseases generate a heavy burden in the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Car...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 71403Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012Autor:
Bonilla-Chacin, Maria Eugenia
In the past two years, the publication of three impact evaluations of microcredit programs in India, the Philippines, and Morocco precipitated a spate of press reports questioning the value of microcr...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 63331Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012Autor:
El-Zoghbi, Mayada ;
Martinez, Meritxell
This paper offers evidence from interviews that took the pulse of more than 100 industry insiders to provide a self-assessment of microfinance governance today. Corporate governance serves to mediate ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 71310Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012Autor:
Mckee, Katharine
This Results Profile focuses on gender in education, health, and social protection and labor. Gender equality leads to better human development outcomes. This key finding of the "World Development Rep...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91730Fecha: 23 de abril de 2012
Guangdong Province is a powerhouse of economic growth in China, but like other provinces, it faces major challenges in tackling inequality. The provincial government has recognized the urgent need to ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 94174Fecha: 18 de abril de 2012
This Results Profile talks about public sector reform and the first Citizen Report Card (CRC) in Turkey. Public sector reform in Turkey was an ongoing effort involving granting of more autonomy and au...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 94148Fecha: 17 de abril de 2012
This Report Profile talks about supporting reform efforts in investments, public financial management, and poverty alleviation in Indonesia. Indonesia’s investments had been constrained by poor intra ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 94142Fecha: 17 de abril de 2012
This Results Profile talks about impact evaluations to improve education around the World. The World Bank has systematically been using rigorous impact evaluations in Bank-funded education projects ar...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 94170Fecha: 17 de abril de 2012
A World Bank project sought to bolster Mexico's economic competitiveness by supporting programs through the national science and technology council (CONACYT) to promote business innovation and better ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 94120Fecha: 17 de abril de 2012
This Result Profile talks about Chile's tertiary education experience. In 2005, the quality of tertiary education in Chile varied considerably, data was unreliable, and students from poor backgrounds ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 94057Fecha: 16 de abril de 2012
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