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Securing property rights in Armenia : Derechos de propiedad seguros en Armenia

This paper includes the following headings: challenge, approach, results, partners, IDA contribution, and next steps.
Tipo: Brief Informe#: 92785 Fecha: 31 de enero de 2007
Vietnam extends reach of its education system : Vietnam amplia el alcance de su sistema educativo

This paper includes the following headings: challenge, approach, results, IDA contribution, partners, and next steps.
Tipo: Brief Informe#: 92783 Fecha: 31 de enero de 2007
Small projects target poorest, most isolated Armenian's : Proyectos de pequena escala para los mas pobres y aislados

When the Armenian social investment fund (ASIF) was created in 1996, local government structure was weak and unable to fund small-scale projects in remote or high-risk areas. The 1998 earthquake and t...
Tipo: Brief Informe#: 92786 Fecha: 31 de enero de 2007
More reliable water for Armenia's capital and municipalities : Abastecimiento mas seguro en las ciudades de Armenia

This paper includes the following headings: challenge, approach, results, IDA contribution, partners, and next steps.
Tipo: Brief Informe#: 92784 Fecha: 31 de enero de 2007
Using proxy-means testing to expand health insurance for the poor : Uso de un sistema de comprobacion indirecta de los medios economicos para ampliar el seguro medico para los pobres

Colombia's poor now stand a chance of holding off financial catastrophe when felled by serious illness. Sweeping health sector reform in 1993 brought health insurance to people never before covered. I...
Tipo: Brief Informe#: 43056 Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007
Contracting health care services for the rural poor : Contratacion de servicios de atencion medica para los pobres de las zonas rurales

In summary, the results of this experiment of Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) contracting in rural Cambodia indicate that while all districts increased health service coverage rates, the contracte...
Tipo: Brief Informe#: 43058 Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007
Community-based women's trade union brings health care to the poor : Un sindicato de mujeres de base comunitaria brinda atencion medica a los pobres

The Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), a trade union, was founded in 1972 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat State, India, to empower poor women who earn a living outside the formal sector through their own...
Tipo: Brief Informe#: 42024 Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007
Colombia - Assisting talented students from low-income families attend tertiary education : Colombia - Apoyando a estudiantes de familias de bajos ingresos a acceder a la educacion

With the support of the ACCES (Acceso Con Calidad a la Educacion Superior, in Spanish) Project Colombia shifted its tertiary education policy, implementing comprehensive reforms to improve equity of t...
Tipo: Brief Informe#: 39512 Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007 Autor: Blom, Andreas ; Cerdan-Infantes, Pedro
Low-income housing in Latin America and the Caribbean : La vivienda popular en America Latina y el Caribe

Housing is one of the most important sectors of the economy -- in developing countries as in richer ones -- with large positive externalities in terms of economic growth, public health and societal st...
Tipo: Brief Informe#: 38748 Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007 Autor: Jha, Abhas Kumar
Paying the poor to use health services : conditional cash transfers in health and education : Pagar a los pobres para que usen los servicios de salud : transferencias condicionadas en efectivo para la alud y la educacion

To combat the country's stubbornly high poverty rate and replace a set of food-subsidy and other poverty relief programs that did not work, Mexico launched the Health, Nutrition and Education Program ...
Tipo: Brief Informe#: 43720 Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007
Participatory planning improves reproductive health for disadvantaged youth : La planificacion participativa mejora la salud reproductiva de los jovenes desfavorecidos

In Nepal, a country where young people's reproductive health needs are especially acute, a grassroots participatory approach has reduced the gap in reproductive health outcomes for young people with d...
Tipo: Brief Informe#: 42025 Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007
India - Confronting the groundwater management challenge in the Deccan traps country of Maharashtra : India - Enfrentando el reto de la gestión del agua subterránea del acuífero 'Deccan traps' en Maharashtra

The drought-prone interior of Maharashtra state is especially dependent on groundwater resources for both rural drinking water-supply and for subsistence and commercial irrigated agriculture. Despite ...
Tipo: Brief Informe#: 44361 Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007 Autor: Foster, Stephen ; Garduno, Hector ; Tuinhof, Alber
Cutting red tape in Lima : how municipal simplification improves investment climate : Agilizacion de los tramites burocraticos en Lima : Como se beneficia el clima de inversion con la simplificacion municipal

Regulatory simplification has become a part of many countries' efforts to improve the investment climate and the overall economy. Reducing red tape can lift constraints on private sector development a...
Tipo: Brief Informe#: 39242 Fecha: 1 de enero de 2007 Autor: Anthony, Sarah Ellen ; Artemiev, Igor E. ; Haggarty, Luke Augustine ; Samad, Taimur ; Sislen, David N.
From financial exclusion to inclusion : increasing the availability of credit to the urban poor in Latin America : De la exclusion a la inclusion financiera : Necesidad de mejorar la disponibilidad de credito para los pobres en las zonas urbanas de America Latina

This is the second of two articles that draw on the results of recent studies of the links between financial services and low income communities in Latin America. While the focus remains on the nature...
Tipo: Brief Informe#: 38741 Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2006 Autor: Didoni, Alberto ; Goldberg, Michael J. ; Gwinner, William Britt ; Solo, Tova Maria
Responding to climate change : an action plan for the World Bank in Latin America and the Caribbean : Respuesta al cambio climatico : un plan de accion para el Banco Mundial en America Latina y el Caribe

Climate change is a very serious environmental challenge that affects prospects for sustainable development. Since the Industrial Revolution, the mean surface temperature of Earth has increased an ave...
Tipo: Brief Informe#: 38740 Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2006 Autor: Vergara, Walter
The role of water policy in Mexico : El rol de la politica del agua en Mexico - consideraciones sobre sustentabilidad, equidad y crecimiento economico

With water in Mexico becoming very scarce spatially and over time, it is now a factor that limits economic activity and social well-being in several regions. The identification of priorities and trade...
Tipo: Brief Informe#: 38205 Fecha: 5 de octubre de 2006 Autor: Asad, Musa S. C. ; Dinar, Ariel
Costa Rica - Recapturing momentum for poverty reduction : Costa Rica - Recuperacion del impulso en los esfuerzos por reducir la pobreza

Costa Rica is well-known for its socio-economic achievements with low levels of poverty and inequality by Latin American standards. It also performs well in health, access to improved water supplies, ...
Tipo: Brief Informe#: 38739 Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006 Autor: Mason, Andrew D. ; Sobrado, Carlos E.
Use of agents in branchless banking for the poor : rewards, risks, and regulation : Empleo de agentes en la Banca sin sucursales para los pobres : beneficios, riesgos y reglamentacion

This Focus Note offers insights on questions concerning new approaches to branchless banking: what are the risks and are they different from the risks of conventional branch-based banking. It examines...
Tipo: Brief Informe#: 38413 Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006
El Salvador - Rural schools triple enrollment and deliver higher quality : El Salvador - Las escuelas rurales triplican su inscripcion y ofrecen una educacion de mejor calidad

Education requires sustained and well-sequenced efforts to bring about tangible results. The recently completed Secondary Education Project in El Salvador builds upon earlier programs designed to impr...
Tipo: Brief Informe#: 38197 Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006
Safe and accessible : bringing poor savers into the formal financial system : Seguro y accesible : integracion de los ahorristas pobres en el sistema financiero formal

Research has repeatedly demonstrated that saving is central to poor people's economic management strategies. Projects such as the financial diaries initiatives in India, Bangladesh, and South Africa; ...
Tipo: Brief Informe#: 38412 Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2006 Autor: Deshpande, Gauri Rani