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: BriefInforme#: 38413Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006
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: BriefInforme#: 38197Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006
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: BriefInforme#: 38412Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2006Autor:
Deshpande, Gauri Rani
This article highlights some of the findings from recent analytical work that has been carried out in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, notably a number of promising practices that are bei...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 37786Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2006Autor:
Brushett, Stephen Jeremy ;
John-Abraham, Indu
Haiti is a resilient society whose rural communities in particular have developed coping mechanisms in response to a long history of underdevelopment and poor governance. Like other fragile states, ho...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 38014Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2006Autor:
Heinemann, Alessandra ;
Verner, Dorte
By 2003 to 2004 the accumulated burdens of slow growth and debt overhang weighed heavily on Brazil's state governments. The State of Ceará was no exception. Discretionary expenditures were frequently ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 37785Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2006Autor:
Burdescu, Ruxandra ;
Parel, Chris
This brief discussion of Bolivia's poverty assessment notes that Bolivia's growth prospects remain vulnerable to domestic instability and external circumstances. Because of the depth and breadth of po...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 37046Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2006Autor:
Arias Diaz, Omar S. ;
Bendini, Maria Magdalena
Over 529,000 women die annually from complications during pregnancy, childbirth, or the postpartum period. Nearly all of these deaths occur in developing countries, where fertility rates are higher an...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 53648Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2006
Government and donor projects that deliver microfinance-that is, credit and other financial services for poor and low-income people-usually involve microfinance institutions (MFIs) with professional s...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 37822Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2006Autor:
Murray, Jessica ;
Rosenberg, Richard
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has a robust tradition in reporting on its project portfolio. Since 1996, project performance reports have been submitted annually to the GEF council; these were ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 57574Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2006
Health surveillance is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health data essential for planning, implementing, and evaluating public health activities, closely integrated w...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 53649Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2006
Donors support many community-managed loan funds (CMLFs) often designed as components of larger projects. Unlike microfinance institutions (MFIs) with professional staff, CMLFs rely on group members t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44582Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2006Autor:
Murray, Jessica
After a period of strong support in the 1960s and 1970s, public funding for research and extension activities in LAC began to wane in the 1980s and 1990s. The strained economic context for many countr...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 37047Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2006Autor:
Roseboom, Johannes ;
Mcmahon, Matthew A. ;
Ekanayake, Indira Janaki ;
John-Abraham, Indu
In the last decade, Mexico has undertaken major efforts to transform its rural and agricultural sectors, and to make the rural social sector in particular part of a more dynamic economic environment. ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92482Fecha: 24 de abril de 2006
Mexico has shown strong commitment to enhancing transparency and accountability. In June 2002, it became one of the first countries in Latin America to pass a freedom of information act: the federal t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92484Fecha: 24 de abril de 2006
Mobile phones can be used for financial services in three different ways: for micro payments (m-commerce), as electronic money (e-money), and as a banking channel. The report examines who offers mobil...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44587Fecha: 1 de abril de 2006Autor:
Ivatury, Gautam J. ;
Pickens, Mark
The Bank has hosted various conferences to address issues of male involvement in reproductive health and gender-based violence, yet no projects in the World Bank's portfolio have directly addressed ei...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 36077Fecha: 1 de abril de 2006Autor:
Betron, Myra L. ;
Fort, Lucia
About 40 million of the 115 million children who do not attend school are physically challenged youth. This paper describes the status of the Education For All initiative and concludes with the follo...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 37044Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2006Autor:
Peters, Susan J.
In many countries, including Uganda, Bangladesh, and Bolivia, microfinance has become more competitive in recent years. Competition is generally expected to benefit consumers by offering a wider choic...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35821Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2006Autor:
Porteous, David John
Microfinance-or formal financial services for the poor-helps people fight poverty on their own terms, in a sustainable way. Poor people use loans, deposits, and other financial services to reduce thei...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35823Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2006Autor:
Hashemi, Syed Mesbahuddin ;
Rosenberg, Richard
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