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#: 32195Fecha: 1 de abril de 2005Autor:
Foster,James Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
Koundourim Phoebe ;
Nanni, Marccella ;
Tuinhof,Albert
This report deals with a pilot project that runs in 11 small cities in Peru. Its goal is to improve the quality and sustainability of water and sanitation services, through new management models, in w...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 46605Fecha: 1 de abril de 2005
This report deals with a pilot project that runs in 11 small cities in Peru. Its goal is to improve the quality and sustainability of water and sanitation services, through new management models, in w...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 46605Fecha: 1 de abril de 2005
Oil rent accounts for a significant portion of the gross domestic product (GDP), the national budget, and the foreign-exchange revenues in the producing countries of the Sub-Andean Basin. Its availabi...
Tipo: ESMAP PaperInforme#: ESM304Fecha: 1 de abril de 2005
Effectively educating all citizens is difficult in a geographically disperse and culturally heterogeneous country such as Mexico. How should Mexico educate the type of students who speak no Spanish, l...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33205Fecha: 1 de abril de 2005Autor:
Moreno Trevino,Jorge ;
Patrinos,Harry Anthony ;
Shapiro,Joseph S.
"Whither Latin American Capital Markets?" a study published by the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank in June 2004, analyzes the status and prospects for capital market development i...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33198Fecha: 1 de abril de 2005Autor:
De La Torre,Augusto ;
Schmukler,Sergio L.
Uruguay is still struggling to recover from the social and economic consequences of the prolonged recession over 1999-2001, and the 2002 deep crisis. Indications are that initial measures to combat th...
Tipo: Policy NoteInforme#: 31338Fecha: 31 de marzo de 2005
This report addresses a range of themes related to trade and competitiveness in the Dominican Republic. The analysis examines past trade performance and the many factors contributing thereto, and the ...
Tipo: General Economy, Macroeconomics and Growth StudyInforme#: 30542Fecha: 28 de marzo de 2005
This handbook is designed as a resource for borrowers and the World Bank staff who wish to understand the World Bank's policies and procedures regarding debt servicing on its financial products. These...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 47614Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2005
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed in August 2004, between the Dominican Republic (DR) and the United States of America (US), contains a specific chapter on agriculture. Concurrently, the financial...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 32002Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2005
Central America's single most important educational challenge is improving learning at all levels. Improved learning is vital for individual and national growth, competitiveness, and quality of life. ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33196Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2005Autor:
Di Gropello,Emanuela
The instrument for the establishment of the restructured Global Environment Facility (GEF) provides for the convening of an Assembly of all participants to review GEF's general policies, review and ev...
Tipo: Global Environment Facility Working PaperInforme#: 46701Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2005
The Indigenous Peoples Leadership Capacity Building Program for the Andean Countries (Andean Program) is the result of an initiative of the Fund for the Development of Indigenous Peoples of Latin Amer...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33197Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2005Autor:
Uquillas Rodas,Jorge E.
The purpose of this paper is to assess the World Bank's recent relations with civil society organizations (CSOs), that is, nongovernmental organizations and not-for-profit organizations, and to propos...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 34160Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2005Autor:
Mandell, Carolyn Reynolds ;
Reuben,William ;
Thindwa, Jeff ;
Garrison,John W. ;
Gears,Cynthia ;
Monico, Carmen
Increasing access to basic infrastructure, and social services is critical to reducing poverty, and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, increasing access is a challenge because...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35540Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2005
In this paper, the authors show that an element of groundwater planning and management will be essential if the groundwater in Greater Nairobi is to play a more optimum and cost-effective role in the ...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 38813Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2005
Although much has been written about the benefits that money transfers could bring to pro-poor financial service providers and their clients, relatively little information is available on how they mig...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 33480Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2005Autor:
Deshpande,Gauri Rani ;
Isern,Jennifer ;
Van Doorn,Judith
Developing countries have a substantial interest in totally integrating agriculture under the multilateral trade regime. Approximately 73 percent of the poor in developing countries live in rural area...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 34857Fecha: 28 de febrero de 2005Autor:
Nash,John D.
This field note documents the experience of the Rural and Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Program (PRAGUAS), executed in Ecuador and financed by the World Bank. Under the PRAGUAS program, the ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 33069Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2005
The MECOVI program --short for "Programa para el Mejoramiento de las Encuestas de Hogares y la Medicion de Condiciones de Vida", a Spanish acronym for the Regional Program for Improvement of the Surve...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33124Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2005Autor:
Lee,Haeduck ;
Moncada Vigo,Gilberto A.
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