A recent review of international experience finds that the median targeted program provides roughly 25 percent more resources to the poor than would random allocations. Nonetheless, the study also fin...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 33372Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Lindert,Kathy A.
Brazil is one of the few countries to secure real progress in the Education for All (EFA) process. This issue, part of the special series for EFA in Latin America and the Caribbean, includes: outsta...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35658Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
The report provides a preliminary assessment of DR-CAFTA (the Dominican Republic and Central American Free trade Agreement), with particular attention to three key themes: (1) expected trade and non-t...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 36806Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Jaramillo,Carlos Felipe ;
Lederman,Daniel
This field note reports lessons from a recently concluded pilot project in the city of El Alto, Bolivia. The project aimed to find innovative ways of reducing the cost of providing water and sewerage ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 37306Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
Conflicts and the HIV-AIDS pandemic are generating a major humanitarian crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa: the number of children who have lost one or both parents is expected to rise to 35 million by 2010...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33368Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
This guide reflects the International Finance Corporation's (IFC) experience with credit bureau markets; its purpose is to provide a comprehensive overview of the development of credit bureaus. IFC's ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38857Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
This second fully revised edition presents the experiences of a set of leading companies in Latin America in reforming and improving how their firms are governed, and the results these changes have ac...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 49606Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Global Corporate Governance Forum ;
IFC ;
Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Develo
The past two years witnessed an unprecedented advocacy campaign by global civil society to promote the 2005 year of development. An estimated 150 million citizens around the globe mobilized to call on...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 51430Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Garrison,John W.
Governments and donor organizations increasingly recognize that rigorous evaluations of public interventions should be part of the social policy decision-making process. Yet there is frequently a gap ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33364Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Blomquist,John D.
The focus of the note is on non-contributory social programs for low-income households, or other vulnerable groups in OECD countries. These programs, typically referred to as social safety net (SSN) p...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35631Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Tesliuc,Emil Daniel
Groundwater and surface water are intimately linked, being part of the same overall hydrological cycle. Aquifers discharge to surface water bodies, and can be recharged by them, depending on local con...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44293Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Garduno,Hector ;
Foster,Stephen ;
Nanni,Marcella ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
Tuinhof,Albert ;
Koundouri,Phoebe
This report analyzes the Bank's assistance to support pension reform to determine if the Bank's strategy was relevant and if it was followed. The evaluation assesses whether pension reform decisions r...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 35521Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Andrews,Emily S. ;
Bateman,Hazel ;
Ferraresi,Pier Marco ;
Fornero,Elsa ;
Palmer,Ed ;
Piggott,John ;
Rofman,Rafael P. ;
San Martino,Jorge Antonio ;
Valdes Prieto,Salvador ;
Wang,Debby Kim
Food-based safety net programs provide food, either directly, or through instruments (such as food stamps or coupons) that may be used to purchase food. More generally, these programs serve a variety ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33356Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Weigand,Christine
This study analyzes the general situation and main political changes with regard to indigenous peoples in Latin America; more specifically the countries of: Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and Per...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 38612Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Hall,Gillette H. ;
Patrinos,Harry Anthony
Groundwater resources management has to deal with balancing the exploitation of a complex resource (in terms of quantity, quality, and surface water interactions) with the increasing demands of water ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 44297Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Tuinhof,Albert ;
Dumars,Charles ;
Foster,Stephen ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Nanni,Marcella
Transition economies are commonly understood to be countries that have moved or are moving from a primarily state-planned to a market-based economic system with private ownership of assets and market-...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33352Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Del Ninno,Carlo
Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are an innovative and increasingly popular approach to social assistance. They provide money to poor families contingent upon certain behavior, usually investments in...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33365Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Rawlings,Laura B.
In many low income African countries, three factors are placing an undue burden on the elderly: 1) the burden on the elderly has enormously increased with the increase in mortality of prime age adults...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33369Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Subbarao,Kalanidhi
This evaluation of the Bank's assistance on trade-related issues focuses on the period between fiscal years 1987 and 2004. The majority of developing countries have significantly improved their enviro...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 35921Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006
In response to shrinking budgets and growing demands, many developing countries have adopted formal or informal user fees in government health facilities. While they raise revenue, in the absence of s...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 33359Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Bitran Dicowsky,Ricardo A. ;
Giedion,Ursula
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