While Islamic finance is a growing industry with more than 1,000 Islamic finance institutions and combined assets in excess of $1.3 trillion (Reuters 2013), the development of sharia-compliant microfi...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 95213Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2015Autor:
Alvarez,Kaylene ;
El-Zoghbi,Mayada
Basados entrevistas y reuniones con miembros de entidades públicas y representantes del sector privado llevadas a cabo durante 2014, el presente diagnóstico presenta un análisis del potencial de desar...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 105317Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2015
International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, provides a wide range of specialized advisory services designed to help strengthen companies by improving corporate governanc...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 178259Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2015Autor:
Karapetyan,Davit ;
Orton,Oliver James
The focus of this document is to provide a wide range of ideas and options to improve the inclusion of environmental sustainability throughout the road transportation project cycle (system planning, p...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 93903Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2015Autor:
Hirsch, Art ;
Montgomery,Robert Hale ;
Schirmer, Howard Jr.
Poor children face barriers to healthy development even before they are born. Their mothers may not have nutritious food or proper prenatal care, which can harm a babys brain development when it need...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 95197Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2015Autor:
Gertler,Paul J. ;
Givagnoli, Paula ;
Martinez,Sebastian
This paper on Challenges and Opportunities in Uruguay, 2015 to 2020, asserts that Uruguay's new government has a clear vision of Uruguay by 2020. This comprehensive report gives priority only to a sub...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 96832Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2015
Bolivia is a lower-middle income country, but one of the poorest in South America, with a per capita GNI of US$ 5,750 in 2013 and an average GNI growth rate of 4.4 percent during the last ten years. N...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92272Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2015Autor:
Cortez,Rafael A. ;
Lavadenz,Fernando ;
Medici,Andre C. ;
Saadat,Seemeen
Mobile network operators (MNOs) such as Safaricom in Kenya; Vodacom, Tigo, and Airtel in Tanzania; and Econet in Zimbabwe are collectively underscoring the importance and potential of MNO-led business...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 95201Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2015Autor:
Chen,Gregory C. ;
Hanouch,Michel
India has ambitious goals to deliver electronic welfare payments, banking services, and digital local government services to each of its 638,000 villages. The road is fraught with challenges as about ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 95211Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2015Autor:
Banerjee,Shweta S.
Worldwide, some 57 million primary school age children don't have the chance to go to school. Many factors hold these children back: poverty, poor health and overcrowded or faraway facilities. The pro...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 94784Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2015Autor:
Adelman,Melissa Ann ;
Holland,Peter Anthony ;
Marcus,Aliza
Green bonds are mobilizing billions of dollars a year for development projects that countries and cities need, carried out in ways that are good for the climate and environment. 2014 was a record year...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166519Fecha: 22 de enero de 2015
Global growth again disappointed in 2014 but a lackluster recovery is underway, with increasingly divergent prospects in major economies. Looking ahead, growth is expected to rise slowly, supported by...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 93690Fecha: 13 de enero de 2015Autor:
World Bank
Faith-based organizations can play an important role in promoting conservation and sustainable natural resources management to help ecosystems and livelihoods more resilient. The World Bank, through t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166640Fecha: 12 de enero de 2015
This book provides an overview of the World Bank's Eco2 Cities Initiative. The objective of the program is to help cities in developing countries achieve a greater degree of ecological and economic su...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 54432Fecha: 5 de enero de 2015Autor:
Suzuki, Hiroaki ;
Dastur, Arish ;
Moffatt, Sebasti
This note aims to provide information and analysis as a basis for a better understanding of the challenges and constraints of achieving gender equality in Bolivia, with a special focus on the intersec...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 103087Fecha: 2 de enero de 2015Autor:
Lundvall,Jonna Maria ;
Garriga,Santiago ;
Bonfert,Anna Tabitha ;
Tas,Emcet Oktay ;
Villegas Otero,Maria Cecilia
Globalization and rapid technological change have made knowledge a critical determinant of competitiveness in the world economy. The World Bank Group (WBG) is playing an important role in assisting co...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 98449Fecha: 1 de enero de 2015
In 2013 the World Bank set itself two ambitious goals: to end extreme poverty within a generation and to boost the prosperity of the bottom 40 percent of the population worldwide. In Latin America, th...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 98544Fecha: 1 de enero de 2015Autor:
Freire,German Nicolas ;
Schwartz Orellana,Steven Daniel ;
Zumaeta Aurazo,Melissa ;
Costa, Damasceno Costa ;
Lundvall,Jonna Maria ;
Viveros Mendoza,Martha Celmira ;
Lucchetti,Leonardo Ramiro ;
Moreno, Laura ;
Sousa,Liliana Do Couto
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