Microfinance-or formal financial services for the poor-helps people fight poverty on their own terms, in a sustainable way. Poor people use loans, deposits, and other financial services to reduce thei...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35823Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2006Autor:
Hashemi,Syed Mesbahuddin ;
Rosenberg,Richard
With a population of seven million, Honduras is the second most populous country in Central America. It is also the second poorest country in the region with an annual per capita income of less than U...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 37045Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2006Autor:
Alwang,Jeffrey Roger ;
Jansen,Hans G. P. ;
Pichon,Francisco J. ;
Siegel,Paul Bennett
The document describes the main findings and recommendations of a study focused on the operational, managerial, and participatory communal aspects within the autonomous water supply systems in Metropo...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 35671Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2006
Afro-descendents in Latin America represent about one-fifth of the total population of the region, and next to the indigenous population, are the poorest of the continent. In spite of national efforts...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 36387Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2006Autor:
La universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero ;
Reyes, Hiska N. [editor] ;
Stubbs, Josefina [editor]
The National Program for the Development of Community-Administered Education (PRONADE) in Guatemala began in 1992 with the objective of improving access to education in remote areas and to stimulate t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35659Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2006Autor:
Rojas,Juan Carlos ;
Valerio,Alexandria ;
Demas,Angela
This report presents the proceedings of the SWAp ("Sector Wide Approach") Workshop in Water Supply and Sanitation held in Montelimar, Nicaragua, May 19-20, 2005. The report describes the discussion on...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 35581Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2006
A growing number of countries are pursuing a results orientation by building or strengthening their government monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems. This paper provides an overview of the increasin...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 37828Fecha: 31 de enero de 2006Autor:
Mackay,Keith
This report provides an assessment of accounting, financial reporting and auditing practices within Uruguay's corporate sector, using International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and Internation...
Tipo: Accounting and Auditing Assessment (ROSC)Informe#: 38589Fecha: 30 de enero de 2006
This paper extensively reviews the logistics chain and quality assurance for Colombian foreign trade products. The main content of the paper includes four sections: the importance of quality and log...
Tipo: PSD, Privatization and Industrial PolicyInforme#: 35061Fecha: 25 de enero de 2006
Groundwater plays an integral role in sustaining certain types of aquatic, terrestrial and coastal ecosystems, and the associated landscapes, both in humid and arid climatic regions. It is thus a key ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44296Fecha: 15 de enero de 2006Autor:
Foster,Stephen ;
Koundouri,Phoebe ;
Tuinhof,Albert ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
Nanni,Marcella ;
Garduno,Hector
The book has a comprehensive introduction and two main parts. Part I presents the conceptual underpinnings for the Bank's thinking on pension systems and reforms, including structure of Bank lending i...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 32672Fecha: 12 de enero de 2006Autor:
Hinz,Richard Paul ;
Holzmann,Robert
Poverty Reduction and Growth is about the existence of these vicious circles in Latin America and the Caribbean about the ways and means to convert them into virtuous circles in which poverty reductio...
Tipo: Poverty AssessmentInforme#: 35348Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Arias Diaz,Omar S. ;
Lopez,J. Humberto ;
Maloney,William F. ;
Perry, Guillermo E. ;
Serven,Luis
Public agricultural, development, and savings banks do serve poor clients in many developing countries, but their objectives are largely social rather than commercial. Private and public banks devote ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35820Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Ivatury,Gautam J.
The two-way relationship between poverty and disability fosters: disability increases the risk of poverty and the conditions of poverty increase the risk of disability, yet little attention has been g...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33371Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Mitra,Sophie
Efforts to launder money and finance terrorism have been evolving rapidly in recent years in response to heightened counter measures. The international community has witnessed the use of increasingly ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 35052Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Schott, Paul Alllan
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) addresses global environmental issues while supporting national sustainable development initiatives. It does so through a partnership involving 176 member countri...
Tipo: Annual ReportInforme#: 65331Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
This paper points out that Public-Private Partnership to promote laundering hands with soap in Peru has evolved to deal with diarrhea which is the third leading cause of death in children under 5 year...
Tipo: Other Health StudyInforme#: 70794Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
The report on enhancing control of highly pathogenic avian influenza in developing countries through compensation seeks to provide guidelines on good practice for payment of compensation as part of hi...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38403Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
In the wake of the periodic financial crises of the late 1990s, the international financial institutions and many experts have recognized the need for a strategy to avoid and mitigate the severity of ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 34415Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Pomerleano, Michael [editor] ;
Shaw, William [editor]
Several governments in developing countries have been using demand-side programs to increase access to housing services among the poor. From the perspective of a social safety net, the main justificat...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33353Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Del Ninno,Carlo
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