Doing Business investigates the scope and manner of regulations that encourage business activity and those that constrain it. The indicators cover four areas of business regulation and their enforceme...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 39325Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2006
Climate change is a very serious environmental challenge that affects prospects for sustainable development. Since the Industrial Revolution, the mean surface temperature of Earth has increased an ave...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 38740Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2006Autor:
Vergara,Walter
This paper focuses on the coverage dimension, looking at empirical data in Latin America. Coverage of pension systems has slowly become a central issue in the policy debate in the region. After more t...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 38170Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2006Autor:
Rofman,Rafael P. ;
Lucchetti, Leonardo ;
Ourens, Guzman
There are many causes, consequences, and connections of deforestation and forest poverty in the tropical world. This report specifically addresses the potential dilemma of trade-offs between poverty ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 36789Fecha: 23 de octubre de 2006Autor:
Buys,Piet ;
Chomitz,Kenneth M. ;
De Luca,Giacomo Davide ;
Thomas,Timothy S. ;
Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Sheila
The main objective of this report is to provide an update of the education situation in Bolivia, identify the challenges facing the Bolivian education system today, and present possible options to res...
Tipo: Education Sector ReviewInforme#: 35073Fecha: 16 de octubre de 2006
El Salvador faces a list of policy challenges related to infrastructure that will impact the country's ability to reduce poverty and resume growth. The Government must: address shortfalls in the provi...
Tipo: Other Infrastructure StudyInforme#: 37689Fecha: 10 de octubre de 2006
With water in Mexico becoming very scarce spatially and over time, it is now a factor that limits economic activity and social well-being in several regions. The identification of priorities and trade...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 38205Fecha: 5 de octubre de 2006Autor:
Asad,Musa S. C. ;
Dinar,Ariel
This Foreword and Executive Summary to the 2006 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (ARDE) restates the aim of the World Bank's results agenda to design country assistance programs and developm...
Tipo: Annual ReportInforme#: 38314Fecha: 2 de octubre de 2006
This book argues that Peru faces an unprecedented opportunity to become the next success story in Latin America. In the coming five years, policy making could put the country on a development path sim...
Tipo: Policy NoteInforme#: 38286Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006Autor:
Fretes-Cibilis, Vincente ;
Guigale, Marcelo M. ;
Newman,John Lincoln
The purpose of Guidelines : selection and employment of consultants by World Bank borrowers, is to define the Bank's policies and procedures for selecting, contracting, and monitoring consultants requ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 95662Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006
Costa Rica is well-known for its socio-economic achievements with low levels of poverty and inequality by Latin American standards. It also performs well in health, access to improved water supplies, ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 38739Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006Autor:
Mason,Andrew D. ;
Sobrado,Carlos E.
This Focus Note offers insights on questions concerning new approaches to branchless banking: what are the risks and are they different from the risks of conventional branch-based banking. It examines...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 38413Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006
This publication provides a brief introduction to the concept of ecological sanitation sums up the experience of two pilot projects and makes recommendations to facilitate the spread of EcoSan through...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 42951Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006
This publication provides a brief introduction to the concept of ecological sanitation, summarizes the experience of two pilot projects, and makes recommendations to facilitate the spread of EcoSan in...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 46900Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006
This "Preliminary Analysis of National Governance and Forest Sector Legislation for the Countries of the Amazon River Basin "is commissioned by the Bank World with the following objectives: collect, a...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 80505Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006
The purpose of these guidelines is to inform those carrying out a project that is financed in whole or in part by a loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) or a cred...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 95474Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006
The International Comparison Program (ICP) is the world's largest statistical initiative, involving 107 countries. It produces internationally comparable price levels, economic aggregates in real term...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 39654Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006
Education requires sustained and well-sequenced efforts to bring about tangible results. The recently completed Secondary Education Project in El Salvador builds upon earlier programs designed to impr...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 38197Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006
This report seeks to raise awareness of good practice and improve the effectiveness of donors' and investors' operations in supporting inclusive finance. Specifically, these guidelines address the key...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38788Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2006
This executive summary of the Annual Report records the achievements of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency during fiscal year 2006. MIGA's investment insurance, dispute mediation services, a...
Tipo: World Bank Annual ReportInforme#: 37400Fecha: 30 de septiembre de 2006
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