This Results Profile talks about improving health services to reduce child and maternal mortality in Djibouti. Djibouti’s health indicators remained among the lowest in the world. Both the infant mort...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 97288Fecha: 8 de septiembre de 2010
This Results Profile talks about how the compact fluorescent light bulbs save Ethiopia’s rural households money and energy. In East Africa, 90 percent of rural households used the costly fuel, which i...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 97287Fecha: 2 de septiembre de 2010
Morocco's sound economic management in recent years has yielded strong growth and investment grade status and it is weathering the negative impacts of the global crisis impressively well. Morocco is n...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91775Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2010
Croatia aims to crown fifteen years of impressive economic and social progress by joining the European Union (EU), but to do so, it will need to bolster its economic competitiveness, ensuring Croatian...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 57307Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2010
The World Bank Group has worked closely with a number of development partners to help the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYR Macedonia) travel the road from conflict in 2001 to reaching the th...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 57306Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2010
New research reveals that low-income families in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa use an average of eight different financial instruments each year to move money over time, and that active manageme...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 82620Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2010Autor:
McKay, Claudia Vonderohe ;
Pickens, Mark
This is the second note in a monthly series on government monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems led by the PREM Poverty Reduction and Equity Group under the guidance of Jaime Saavedra, Gladys Lopez-...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 64379Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2010Autor:
Briceno, Bertha
This is the first note in a monthly series on government monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems led by the PREM, or Poverty Reduction and Equity Management under the guidance of Jaime Saavedra, Glady...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 56364Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2010Autor:
Mackay, Keith
The third annual country portfolio evaluation report provides a synthesis of the main conclusions and recommendations of the country portfolio evaluations finalized in fiscal year 2010 in Moldova and ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 65354Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2010
This note specifies that one of the challenges faced by developing countries and more advanced countries is gender inequality in the labor market. Despite the existence of laws prohibiting discriminat...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 57155Fecha: 1 de julio de 2010Autor:
Pungiluppi, Juliana ;
Castro, María Elena ;
Muñoz-Boudet, Ana María
Mobile-Swahili for Money (M-PESA), Kenya's mobile phone-based money transfer service, exploded onto the scene in 2007. In just three years, it has attracted over 9.5 million customers, in a country wi...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 56629Fecha: 1 de julio de 2010Autor:
Breloff, Paul Joseph ;
Tarazi, Ala Michael
Late one night in November 2007 Aleksandr Kalanda, chief executive officer of Opportunity Bank in Malawi, sat in his office reviewing strategic plans for 2008. The commercial microfinance bank had dou...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 56628Fecha: 1 de julio de 2010Autor:
Kumar, Kabir Chandra ;
McKay, Claudia Vonderohe ;
Parker, Sarah Rotman
This result profile talks about highway improvements in Gujarat, India. Fast-growing Gujarat Province faced economic decline, poor road conditions were made worse by a growing number of vehicles on th...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 94922Fecha: 29 de abril de 2010
This result profile talks about how better statistical systems help tailor poverty reduction programs in Latin America and Caribbean. Meaningful and lasting reductions in poverty require a clear under...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 94919Fecha: 28 de abril de 2010
By providing technical expertise and grant financing, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) helped the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais overhaul costly and opaque procurement sys...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 94921Fecha: 28 de abril de 2010
Confronted by a large debt burden at the end of the 1990s, Brazil teamed with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and other financial specialists to craft a new approach t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 94920Fecha: 28 de abril de 2010
This result profile talks about the Rural Poverty Reduction Program in Northeast Brazil. Northeast Brazil has seen improvements in lowering inequality and poverty through new frontiers of economic dev...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 94914Fecha: 28 de abril de 2010
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