From its inception in 2008, an innovative project backed by the World Bank has provided over two million targeted stipends for secondary education in Bangladesh, 60 percent of which are provided for g...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 93484Fecha: 8 de mayo de 2012
The World Bank is working with the Government of Punjab in Pakistan to improve education for school children through a range of initiatives, from cash stipends, low-cost private schools to more effect...
This report argues that the practice of disaster risk management (DRM) is a defining characteristic of resilient societies, and should therefore be integrated, or 'mainstreamed', into all aspects of d...
Informe#: 80608Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012Autor:
Ghesquiere, Francis ;
Reid, Prashant Robert
The lack of data has long been recognized as a major barrier to extending access to financial services to low-income households and small businesses. Considerable progress has been made in recent year...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 80539Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012Autor:
Ardic Alper, Oya Pinar ;
Chen, Gregory C. ;
Hoppe, Mombert ;
Latortue, Alexia
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes mellitus and chronic respiratory diseases generate a heavy burden in the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Car...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 71403Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012Autor:
Bonilla-Chacin, Maria Eugenia
Through twenty years of experiment and innovation, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) has created working models of sustainable development that have shaped our attitudes toward environmental prote...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 70289Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012
The new environment strategy for the World Bank Group lays out an ambitious action agenda that seeks to respond to calls from our client countries for a new kind of development path, one that supports...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 80483Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012Autor:
Awe, Yewande Aramide
In the past two years, the publication of three impact evaluations of microcredit programs in India, the Philippines, and Morocco precipitated a spate of press reports questioning the value of microcr...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 63331Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012Autor:
El-Zoghbi, Mayada ;
Martinez, Meritxell
Carbon markets were not immune to the economic volatility. Compounded by increasing signs of long-term oversupply in the European Union (EU) Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), the backbone of the EU's...
Tipo: Annual ReportInforme#: 76842Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012
FONDEN (Natural Disasters Fund), Mexico's fund for natural disasters, was established in the late 1990s as a mechanism to support the rapid rehabilitation of federal and state infrastructure affected ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 75322Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012
The goal of the Forests and Climate Change Project of Mexico is to ensure sustainable management, restoration and expansion of Mexico's forest resources while strengthening the social capacity to with...
Informe#: RP1205Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012Autor:
Gonzalez Montiel, Ivette
This paper offers evidence from interviews that took the pulse of more than 100 industry insiders to provide a self-assessment of microfinance governance today. Corporate governance serves to mediate ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 71310Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012Autor:
Mckee, Katharine
Alakudi is a remote farming village near the southernmost tip of India in Tamil Nadu State. It would take 30 minutes or more by foot to reach the nearest dilapidated bank branch, though most Alakudi r...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 89805Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012Autor:
Ananth, Bindu ;
Chen, Gregory ;
Rasmussen, Steph
Toward the end of 2010, the asset quality of many microfinance institutions (MFIs) began to recover from a crisis of client over indebtedness and unsustainable growth, particularly in India, Bosnia, a...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 89806Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2012Autor:
Glisovic, Jasmina ;
González, Henry ;
Saltuk, Ya
International Finance Corporation (IFC) strives for positive development outcomes in the private sector projects it finances in emerging markets. An important component of positive development outcome...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 114009Fecha: 30 de abril de 2012
The biggest challenge in terms of jobs in Central America is to create better conditions to stimulate more productive job creation in the context of a rapidly growing labor force. Overcoming this chal...
Tipo: Other Social Protection StudyInforme#: 72912Fecha: 25 de abril de 2012Autor:
Bashir, Sajitha ;
Gindling, T.H. ;
Oviedo Silva, Ana Maria
This Results Profile focuses on gender in education, health, and social protection and labor. Gender equality leads to better human development outcomes. This key finding of the "World Development Rep...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91730Fecha: 23 de abril de 2012
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