Governments and donor organizations increasingly recognize that rigorous evaluations of public interventions should be part of the social policy decision-making process. Yet there is frequently a gap ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33364Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Blomquist, John D.
The focus of the note is on non-contributory social programs for low-income households, or other vulnerable groups in OECD countries. These programs, typically referred to as social safety net (SSN) p...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35631Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Tesliuc, Emil Daniel
Groundwater and surface water are intimately linked, being part of the same overall hydrological cycle. Aquifers discharge to surface water bodies, and can be recharged by them, depending on local con...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44293Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Garduno, Hector ;
Foster, Stephen ;
Nanni, Marcella ;
Kemper, Karin Erika ;
Tuinhof, Albert ;
Koundouri, Phoebe
Food-based safety net programs provide food, either directly, or through instruments (such as food stamps or coupons) that may be used to purchase food. More generally, these programs serve a variety ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33356Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Weigand, Christine
Transition economies are commonly understood to be countries that have moved or are moving from a primarily state-planned to a market-based economic system with private ownership of assets and market-...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33352Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Del Ninno, Carlo
Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are an innovative and increasingly popular approach to social assistance. They provide money to poor families contingent upon certain behavior, usually investments in...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33365Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Rawlings, Laura B.
In many low income African countries, three factors are placing an undue burden on the elderly: 1) the burden on the elderly has enormously increased with the increase in mortality of prime age adults...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33369Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Subbarao, Kalanidhi
Groundwater resources management has to deal with balancing the exploitation of a complex resource (in terms of quantity, quality, and surface water interactions) with the increasing demands of water ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44297Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Tuinhof, Albert ;
Dumars, Charles ;
Foster, Stephen ;
Kemper, Karin Erika ;
Garduno, Hector ;
Nanni, Marcella
The institutional environment can determine the effectiveness and efficiency of social safety net programs. An otherwise perfectly designed program may fail if it does not take into account the role o...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33357Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Weigand, Christine
Many governments use price and tax subsidization to meet social protection objectives. They endeavor to reduce the cost of living for their population-or for a subset of the population-by subsidizing ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33354Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Mackintosh, Fiona J. ;
Del Ninno, Carlo
It has long been recognized that political economy influences the design, implementation and outcome of safety nets, as well as other social programs, but there is no consensus about how to account fo...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33362Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Blomquist, John D.
Health risks pose a grave threat to lives and livelihoods, especially those of the poor. Health shocks add additional expenditures to the burden of the poor precisely when they can least afford it. Ev...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33373Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Tabor, Steven R.
The pilot program to conserve the Brazilian rain forest (PPG7) is a multilateral initiative of the Brazilian government, civil society, and the international community aimed at developing innovative t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92410Fecha: 14 de diciembre de 2005
These reserves are based on the premise that traditional communities that gather forest products, such as rubber and Brazil nuts, can also be good stewards of natural resources and help avoid the envi...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92586Fecha: 13 de diciembre de 2005
Banco do Nordeste (BNB), a large public bank active in the Northeast of Brazil, established CrediAmigo in November 1997 with technical assistance from the World Bank. Given the strong commitment of BN...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92581Fecha: 13 de diciembre de 2005
Brazil's family health program (PSF) is promoting a proactive model of health care delivery in which family health care providers deliver quality basic care to households and communities. The program,...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92405Fecha: 13 de diciembre de 2005
Building the capacity of local communities to develop, adapt, and implement environmentally sound forms of resource use is essential for promoting sustainable development in the Brazilian rain forest....
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92579Fecha: 13 de diciembre de 2005
The Ceara Rural Poverty Reduction Project is part of the Northeast Rural Poverty Reduction Program (NRPR) comprising loans to all 10 states of the Northeast region for participatory, community-driven ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92404Fecha: 13 de diciembre de 2005
The vision of the Amazon Region Protected Areas Project (ARPA) is to create a mosaic of protected areas around productive landscapes to maintain the ecological integrity of the region over the long te...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92406Fecha: 13 de diciembre de 2005
During the 1980s, Ceara state's urban population grew by 3.6 percent a year, exceeding both the regional and national averages. The Ceara urban development and water resources management project helpe...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92575Fecha: 13 de diciembre de 2005
Ud. ha cliqueado en un enlace que lleva a una página que no se incluye en la versión beta del nuevo sitio bancomundial.org. Antes que salga del sitio, nos encantaría recibir sus comentarios acerca de la experiencia que tuvo mientras lo visitó. ¿Tiene dos minutospara completar una breve encuesta que nos ayudará a mejorar nuestro sitio web?
Encuesta sobre comentarios
¡Muchas gracias por participar en nuestra encuesta! Sus comentarios son muy valiosos para nosotros mientras buscamos mejorar nuestro sitio web.
