The National Program for the Development of Community-Administered Education (PRONADE) in Guatemala began in 1992 with the objective of improving access to education in remote areas and to stimulate t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35659Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2006Autor:
Rojas, Juan Carlos ;
Valerio, Alexandria ;
Demas, Angela
Groundwater plays an integral role in sustaining certain types of aquatic, terrestrial and coastal ecosystems, and the associated landscapes, both in humid and arid climatic regions. It is thus a key ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44296Fecha: 15 de enero de 2006Autor:
Foster, Stephen ;
Koundouri, Phoebe ;
Tuinhof, Albert ;
Kemper, Karin Erika ;
Nanni, Marcella ;
Garduno, Hector
Public agricultural, development, and savings banks do serve poor clients in many developing countries, but their objectives are largely social rather than commercial. Private and public banks devote ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35820Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Ivatury, Gautam J.
The two-way relationship between poverty and disability fosters: disability increases the risk of poverty and the conditions of poverty increase the risk of disability, yet little attention has been g...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33371Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Mitra, Sophie
Several governments in developing countries have been using demand-side programs to increase access to housing services among the poor. From the perspective of a social safety net, the main justificat...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33353Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Del Ninno, Carlo
Cash transfers can be defined as the provision of assistance in the form of cash to the poor or those who face a probable risk, in the absence of the transfer, of falling into poverty. Cash transfers,...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33355Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Blomquist, John D. ;
Mackintosh, Fiona J.
The primary goal of this Focus Note is to raise awareness in the microfinance sector of the issues associated with foreign exchange risk. First, it explains what exchange risk is. Second, it looks at ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35819Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Featherston, Scott Douglas ;
Littlefield, Elizabeth L. ;
Mwangi, Patricia
Public safety nets in developing countries address the vulnerability of the poor and the near-poor to income disruption, but such formal programs do not operate in a vacuum. Private and informal mecha...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33358Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Weigand, Christine
Many developing countries are witnessing the emergence of a large and growing number of orphans, street children, and children in the worst forms of labor. In particular, conflict and HIV-AIDS have pr...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33366Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Prywes, Menahem M.
The series is intended to give a concise introduction to the theory and practice of groundwater resource management and protection (a neglected subject) in a convenient and accessible format. Thus eac...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44292Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Foster, Stephen ;
Kemper, Karin Erika
This briefing note deals primarily with promoting an integrated approach to water resource planning whereby groundwater is incorporated into the overall national strategy for water conservation. Groun...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 38818Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Garduno, Hector ;
Foster, Stephen ;
Nanni, Marcella ;
Kemper, Karin Erika ;
Tuinhof, Albert ;
Koundouri, Phoebe
In countries where large parts of the population live in absolute poverty, the need for social safety nets may be greatest, but the capacity to fund and administer them can be severely constrained. Wh...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33361Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Weigand, Christine
Social safety nets are often seen as short-term palliatives or, worse, wastes of scarce money in developing economies. Critics point to leakages of benefits to non-targeted groups (i.e., the non-poor)...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33363Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Whitehead, Tim
This briefing note deals primarily with issues affecting initial development, and subsequent expansion of groundwater supplies, in areas underlain by minor aquifers, whose yield to water wells is both...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44294Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Foster, Stephen ;
Tuinhof, Albert ;
Garduno, Hector ;
Kemper, Karin Erika ;
Koundouri, Phoebe ;
Nanni, Marcella
Public works programs have been an important safety net intervention in both developed and developing countries for many years. By providing temporary low-wage jobs to unskilled manual workers, income...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33351Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Blomquist, John D. ;
Mackintosh, Fiona J.
To be successful, Social Safety Net (SSN) programs require three elements of policy design: technical correctness, administrative feasibility and political viability; yet the politically supportable a...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33370Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Ouerghi, Azedine
The crux of this report is that ground water is a widespread but hidden and inaccessible resource. It contrasts with surface water in that changes in the quantity and quality processes are often very ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44676Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Tuinhof, Albert ;
Foster, Stephen ;
Kemper, Karin Erika ;
Garduno, Hector ;
Nanni, Marcella
Orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC) are among the most vulnerable population groups in Africa. Without support and protection, they are exposed to the risk of abusive labor, lack of education,...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33367Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Tovo, Maurizia ;
Prywes, Menahem M. ;
Kielland, Anne ;
Gibbons, Catherine A. ;
Saito, Junko
Brazil is one of the few countries to secure real progress in the Education for All (EFA) process. This issue, part of the special series for EFA in Latin America and the Caribbean, includes: outsta...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35658Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
Conflicts and the HIV-AIDS pandemic are generating a major humanitarian crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa: the number of children who have lost one or both parents is expected to rise to 35 million by 2010...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33368Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
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