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]
The purpose of local economic development (LED) is to build up the economic capacity of a local area in order to improve its economic future and the quality of life for all. It is a process by which p...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 33769Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Goga,Soraya ;
Murphy,Ian Fergus ;
Swinburn,Gwen
The primary goal of this Focus Note is to raise awareness in the microfinance sector of the issues associated with foreign exchange risk. First, it explains what exchange risk is. Second, it looks at ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35819Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Featherston,Scott Douglas ;
Littlefield,Elizabeth L. ;
Mwangi,Patricia
Over the years of Bank support for Education for All (EFA) and its world conferences in 1990 and 2000, the Bank's policy objectives for increased support to primary education have been simple and rema...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 42874Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
Biotechnology is probably as old as civilization itself. Special methods of food preparation, such as developing drinks from fermenting wheat or fruit, or making cheese, were known in prehistoric time...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 36406Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
Public safety nets in developing countries address the vulnerability of the poor and the near-poor to income disruption, but such formal programs do not operate in a vacuum. Private and informal mecha...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33358Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Weigand,Christine
In 2003, the World Bank launched a global round of the International Comparison Program (ICP), aimed at measuring the purchasing power parities (PPP) and corresponding price and volume levels of Gross...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38494Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Biru,Yonas ;
Camelo, Heber ;
Ducharme, Louis Marc ;
Ryten,Jacob
The series is intended to give a concise introduction to the theory and practice of groundwater resource management and protection (a neglected subject) in a convenient and accessible format. Thus eac...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44292Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Foster,Stephen ;
Kemper,Karin Erika
Persistent malnutrition is contributing not only to widespread failure to meet the first Millennium Development Goals-to halve poverty and hunger-but to meet other goals in maternal and child health, ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 34775Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
This report investigates the scope and manner of regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement have been...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 36225Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
Many developing countries are witnessing the emergence of a large and growing number of orphans, street children, and children in the worst forms of labor. In particular, conflict and HIV-AIDS have pr...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33366Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Prywes,Menahem M.
This briefing note deals primarily with promoting an integrated approach to water resource planning whereby groundwater is incorporated into the overall national strategy for water conservation. Groun...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 38818Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Garduno,Hector ;
Foster,Stephen ;
Nanni,Marcella ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
Tuinhof,Albert ;
Koundouri,Phoebe
Social safety nets are often seen as short-term palliatives or, worse, wastes of scarce money in developing economies. Critics point to leakages of benefits to non-targeted groups (i.e., the non-poor)...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33363Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Whitehead,Tim
In countries where large parts of the population live in absolute poverty, the need for social safety nets may be greatest, but the capacity to fund and administer them can be severely constrained. Wh...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33361Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Weigand,Christine
Bolivia is today at a crossroads. Several years of growth were achieved in the early and mid 1990s resulting from structural reforms which encouraged an upswing in private investment and productivity ...
Tipo: Country Economic MemorandumInforme#: 32233Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
This briefing note deals primarily with issues affecting initial development, and subsequent expansion of groundwater supplies, in areas underlain by minor aquifers, whose yield to water wells is both...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44294Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Foster,Stephen ;
Tuinhof,Albert ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
Koundouri,Phoebe ;
Nanni,Marcella
The crux of this report is that ground water is a widespread but hidden and inaccessible resource. It contrasts with surface water in that changes in the quantity and quality processes are often very ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44676Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Tuinhof,Albert ;
Foster,Stephen ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Nanni,Marcella
Public works programs have been an important safety net intervention in both developed and developing countries for many years. By providing temporary low-wage jobs to unskilled manual workers, income...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33351Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Blomquist,John D. ;
Mackintosh,Fiona J.
Orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC) are among the most vulnerable population groups in Africa. Without support and protection, they are exposed to the risk of abusive labor, lack of education,...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33367Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Tovo,Maurizia ;
Prywes,Menahem M. ;
Kielland,Anne ;
Gibbons,Catherine A. ;
Saito,Junko
To be successful, Social Safety Net (SSN) programs require three elements of policy design: technical correctness, administrative feasibility and political viability; yet the politically supportable a...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33370Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Ouerghi,Azedine
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