Capital markets in Latin America look particularly underdeveloped when considering the many efforts undertaken to improve the macroeconomic environment and to reform the institutions believed to foste...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 37892Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008Autor:
Schmukler,Sergio L. ;
De La Torre,Augusto
Agriculture is a vital development tool for achieving the Millennium Development Goal that calls for halving by 2015 the share of people suffering from extreme poverty and hunger. That is the overall ...
Tipo: World Development ReportInforme#: 41455Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008Autor:
Byerlee,Derek R. ;
De Janvry,Alain F. ;
Klytchnikova,Irina I. ;
Sadoulet,Elisabeth Marie L. ;
Townsend, Robert
This evaluation assesses the Bank group's support for environmental sustainability in both the public and private sectors over the past 15 years. It identifies several crucial constraints that need to...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 44948Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
This paper, Doing Business in Mexico, provides a quantitative measure of regulations about opening a business, obtaining building permits, property registration and enforcement of contracts in 31 stat...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 45533Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
This publication is part of a collection of five studies conducted by external consultants who were attached to various departments of Public Administration and Federal Coordination and who were in th...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 49693Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
This work attempts to describe the recent pension system reforms undertaken in Argentina and Chile. Structural reforms had been carried out in the '80s and '90s. They sought to improve fiscal sustaina...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 51718Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008Autor:
Rofman,Rafael P. ;
Fajnzylber,Eduardo ;
Herrera,German
Improving student learning is the key challenge for education in Latin America and the Caribbean. This book is divided into three parts. Part one focuses on the central role of student learning in edu...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 41173Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008Autor:
Petrow,Jenny Southwick ;
Vegas,Emiliana
The Municipal Scorecard (MSC) is a study that surveyed employers and municipal officials by the World Bank Group. It collects the perception of respondents on variables that compare efficiency, from t...
Tipo: ReportInforme#: 62310Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008Autor:
Deane,Arsala ;
Astonitas Villafuerte,Lya Maine
Universal health care programs are typically created with the objective of improving access to care among the poor and addressing persistent inequalities. The experience of Brazil described here sugge...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 43721Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
Mexico's seguro popular (Popular Health Insurance) program represents an effort to overcome the classic problem in reaching the poor through insurance programs: the difficulty of providing adequate co...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 43057Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
The design of many development policies continues to assume wrongly that farmers and rural workers are men. The important role of women in agriculture in many parts of the world calls for urgent atten...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 41385Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
This paper explains the story of how Senora Ana Maria Andrade, an enterprising baker, launched her business. She learned to identify opportunities and to confront the risks to improve her future. The ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 45221Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
This paper explains that the International Finance Corporation (IFC), member of the World Bank Group, promotes economic growth in sustainable middle-income countries and emerging economies. Through it...
Tipo: ReportInforme#: 62311Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008Autor:
Deane,Arsala ;
Astonitas Villafuerte,Lya Maine
This strategic framework serves to guide and support the operational response of the World Bank Group (WBG) to new development challenges posed by global climate change. Unabated, climate change threa...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 47893Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
Participatory water monitoring has an especially important role to play in reducing or avoiding water-related conflict in large-scale, intensive development projects. Conflict tends to arise in situat...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 108843Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
Doing Business in Colombia measures the ways in which government regulations enhance business activity or restrain it. In enhances the general Doing Business report by expanding from Bogota to 12 citi...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 42788Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
This paper explains that the International Finance Corporation (IFC), member of the World Bank Group, promotes economic growth in sustainable middle-income countries and emerging economies. Through it...
Tipo: ReportInforme#: 62286Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008Autor:
Deane,Arsala ;
Astonitas Villafuerte,Lya Maine
Rwanda was recovering from the genocide of 1994, during which nearly a million of its people died. Gradually, the social fabric is being stitched together with support from the international community...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 51776Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
In 2001, after a long period of recession, Argentina faced the greatest economic, political, and institutional crisis in its history. Unemployment reached levels nearing 18 percent and the poverty rat...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 53816Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008Autor:
Stubbs,Josefina
Small-and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) represent an important part of the Colombian economy, although they are not well documented in official statistics. In particular, there does not exist suffic...
Tipo: Other Financial Sector StudyInforme#: 41610Fecha: 1 de enero de 2008
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