The development of learning assessment systems in Latin America received a significant push starting in the 1990s as a part of efforts to modernize education systems, often with strong support from th...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 100245Fecha: 1 de enero de 2015Autor:
Ferrer,Jorge Guillermo ;
Fiszbein,Ariel
Can Tho is the fourth largest city in Vietnam, and plays an important regional role as the Mekong Delta’s growth engine and transport hub. Chronic seasonal flooding, however, causes significant econom...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166870Fecha: 9 de diciembre de 2014
To stabilize warming at less than two degrees Celsius, as the international community agreed in 2009, the world will have to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero before 2100. Economic policy will ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166596Fecha: 8 de diciembre de 2014
Forests mean food and livelihoods for indigenous and forest-dependent peoples. Involving local communities in the design, decision making and management of forest programs makes them more successful. ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166649Fecha: 4 de diciembre de 2014
The poor are often on the front lines of climate change, living in the most vulnerable areas with the fewest resources to help them adapt. As climate change worsens, eradicating poverty will become mo...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166487Fecha: 4 de diciembre de 2014
This third report in the Turn Down the Heat series covers three World Bank regions: Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC); the Middle East and North Africa (MENA); and parts of Europe and Central Asia...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 92704Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2014Autor:
Adams, Sophie ;
Aich, Valentin ;
Albrecht, Torsten ;
Baarsch, Florent ;
Boit, Alice ;
Canales Trujillo, Nella ;
Cartsburg, Matti ;
Coumou, Dim ;
Eden, Alexander ;
Fader, Marianela ;
Hare, Bill ;
Hoff, Holger ;
Jobbins, Guy ;
Jones,Lindsey ;
Kit, Oleksandr ;
Krummenauer, Linda ;
Langerwisch, Fanny ;
Le Masson, Virginie ;
Ludi, Eva ;
Marcus,Rachel ;
Mengel, Matthias ;
Mosello, Beatrice ;
Möhring, Jacob ;
Norton, Andrew ;
Otto, Ilona M. ;
Perette, Mahé ;
Pereznieto, Paola ;
Rammig, Anja ;
Reckien, Diana ;
Reinhardt, Julia ;
Reyer, Christopher ;
Robinson, Alex ;
Rocha, Marcia ;
Sakschewski, Boris ;
Schaeffer, Michiel ;
Schaphoff, Sibyll ;
Schewe, Jacob ;
Schleussner, Carl-Friedrich ;
Serdeczny, Olivia ;
Stagl, Judith ;
Thonicke, Kirsten ;
Waha, Katharina ;
World Bank
This paper seeks to shed new light on the sustainability options, and particularly the financial sustainability options, potentially available to a particular set of social accountabilities (SAcc) org...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 154788Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2014Autor:
Salamon,Lester M. ;
Geller,Stephanie ;
Sokolowski,S. Wojciech
This case study on the Comprehensive improvement of services contract for drinking water in the district of Colon, Panama, stresses that the quest for improved quality of service and efficiency in wat...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 93870Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2014
Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is one of the most oppressive forms of gender inequality and stands as a fundamental barrier to equal participation of women and men in social, economic, and po...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 92964Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2014Autor:
Gennari,Floriza Freire ;
Hidalgo, Nidia ;
Mccleary-Sills,Jennifer Diane
Paraguay is undergoing a dynamic transformation. While historically often lagging behind the economic performance in the region, growth and poverty reduction kept pace with the golden decade in Lati...
Tipo: Country Partnership FrameworkInforme#: 93619Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2014
Thailand’s solar power market was at a standstill in 2008, with solar energy accounting for less than two megawatts (MW) of installed capacity. Technology costs were falling, though, and the governmen...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166571Fecha: 25 de noviembre de 2014
Every policy relies on explicit or implicit assumptions about how people make choices. Those assumptions typically rest on an idealized model of how people think, rather than an understanding of how e...
Tipo: World Development ReportInforme#: 92863Fecha: 25 de noviembre de 2014Autor:
World Bank
This third report in the Turn Down the Heat series covers three World Bank regions: Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC); the Middle East and North Africa (MENA); and parts of Europe and Central Asia...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 92704Fecha: 23 de noviembre de 2014Autor:
Adams, Sophie ;
Aich, Valentin ;
Albrecht, Torsten ;
Baarsch, Florent ;
Boit, Alice ;
Canales Trujillo, Nella ;
Cartsburg, Matti ;
Coumou, Dim ;
Eden, Alexander ;
Fader, Marianela ;
Hare, Bill ;
Hoff, Holger ;
Jobbins, Guy ;
Jones,Lindsey ;
Kit, Oleksandr ;
Krummenauer, Linda ;
Langerwisch, Fanny ;
Le Masson, Virginie ;
Ludi, Eva ;
Marcus,Rachel ;
Mengel, Matthias ;
Mosello, Beatrice ;
Möhring, Jacob ;
Norton, Andrew ;
Otto, Ilona M. ;
Perette, Mahé ;
Pereznieto, Paola ;
Rammig, Anja ;
Reckien, Diana ;
Reinhardt, Julia ;
Reyer, Christopher ;
Robinson, Alex ;
Rocha, Marcia ;
Sakschewski, Boris ;
Schaeffer, Michiel ;
Schaphoff, Sibyll ;
Schewe, Jacob ;
Schleussner, Carl-Friedrich ;
Serdeczny, Olivia ;
Stagl, Judith ;
Thonicke, Kirsten ;
Waha, Katharina ;
World Bank
This third report in the Turn Down the Heat series covers three World Bank regions: Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC); the Middle East and North Africa (MENA); and parts of Europe and Central Asia...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 92704Fecha: 23 de noviembre de 2014Autor:
Adams, Sophie ;
Aich, Valentin ;
Albrecht, Torsten ;
Baarsch, Florent ;
Boit, Alice ;
Canales Trujillo, Nella ;
Cartsburg, Matti ;
Coumou, Dim ;
Eden, Alexander ;
Fader, Marianela ;
Hare, Bill ;
Hoff, Holger ;
Jobbins, Guy ;
Jones,Lindsey ;
Kit, Oleksandr ;
Krummenauer, Linda ;
Langerwisch, Fanny ;
Le Masson, Virginie ;
Ludi, Eva ;
Marcus,Rachel ;
Mengel, Matthias ;
Mosello, Beatrice ;
Möhring, Jacob ;
Norton, Andrew ;
Otto, Ilona M. ;
Perette, Mahé ;
Pereznieto, Paola ;
Rammig, Anja ;
Reckien, Diana ;
Reinhardt, Julia ;
Reyer, Christopher ;
Robinson, Alex ;
Rocha, Marcia ;
Sakschewski, Boris ;
Schaeffer, Michiel ;
Schaphoff, Sibyll ;
Schewe, Jacob ;
Schleussner, Carl-Friedrich ;
Serdeczny, Olivia ;
Stagl, Judith ;
Thonicke, Kirsten ;
Waha, Katharina ;
World Bank
This issue focuses on communities in Colombia at high-risk to natural disasters. Policymakers continue long-term efforts to understand the scope of the problem and target measures to reduce the vulner...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 93097Fecha: 8 de noviembre de 2014
The aim of the pilot project is the institutional strengthening of the Development Micro-regional Councils (CDM) of two pilot Micro-regions, through the development of actions to enable the executors ...
Cities are expected to produce 2.2 billion tons of solid waste annually by 2025; enough waste to equal the weight of one Great Pyramid of Giza, every day. One of the greatest challenges that cities fa...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 166815Fecha: 30 de octubre de 2014
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