This note considers the impacts on female workers of two forms of labor market regulations common in developing countries: mandated maternity benefits and working-hour restrictions for women. Anecdota...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 32872Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2004Autor:
Van Selm,Alexandra
As the world relies increasingly on science and technology that become more complex every day, developing countries need to cultivate a core of skilled scientists who can keep abreast of cutting-edge ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92525Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2004
This document is an abstract of the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Alternative Technologies for Water and Sanitation Supply in Small Towns held in Peru, in April 2004. It provides techn...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 33071Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2004
The Groundwater Management Advisory Team (GW-MATE) is providing assistance to the major World Bank-funded Ministry of Water Resources (MWR) Water Conservation Project, the aim of which is to promote '...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 38808Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2004Autor:
Foster,James Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector
This Results Profile talks about the community kitchen ‘Rosarito Vera’ in Argentina. A group of local volunteers ran the ‘Rosarito Vera’ community kitchen, located in the Villa Emergencia slum in Buen...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92523Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2004
In Korea, around 3.1 million small enterprises (99.2 percent of the total) operate with less than 50 employees. Micro & small businesses (MSBs), however, have lagged well behind in the adoption of IT,...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 31119Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2004Autor:
Yoon, Jeongwon ;
Hanna,James C.
This report, Payments and securities clearance and settlement systems in Bolivia, is one of several public reports in the World Bank series, Western Hemisphere Payments and Securities Clearance and Se...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38830Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2004
This report covers the Western Hemisphere payments and securities settlement forum center for Latin American monetary studies and focuses on several issues. The first section covers economic and finan...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 45355Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2004
The impact of public expenditure programs on poverty reduction can be enhanced by analyzing gender-disaggregated data in public expenditure reviews, especially by conducting a gender-disaggregated ben...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34841Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2004
The objective of this GW MATE action was to define the profile of a project to address the major groundwater drainage problems widely being experienced in the Buenos Aires conurbation, for possible in...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 38804Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2004Autor:
Foster,James Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector
The importance of improved aid effectiveness in building inclusive financial systems, was accordingly agreed on a joint memorandum, and a program of work to codify good practice. "Donor Guidelines on ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 34267Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2004
This document is intended to initiate a public consultation process on Universal Access Strategy for Telecommunications services for the Republic of Guatemala. The importance of establishing a strateg...
Tipo: Other Infrastructure StudyInforme#: 70738Fecha: 30 de noviembre de 2004
This Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) Progress Report documents the progress achieved in implementing the 2002 CAS (report 24205) and offers a strategy for continuing and consolidating this progress ...
Tipo: CAS Progress ReportInforme#: 30292Fecha: 9 de noviembre de 2004
Unpaved roads require periodic road works to maintain a certain road condition over time, comprising typically of routine maintenance, grading, spot regravelling, and regravelling activities, which re...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33923Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2004Autor:
Archondo-Callao,Rodrigo
In this issue: Highlights of the upcoming Council Meeting. Focal point news. Country dialogue news. GEF-NGO network news. Focal area news. News from the GEF office of monitoring and evaluation....
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 37623Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2004
This paper approaches the Bank's mission of fighting poverty for lasting results with effective and equitable legal systems. A comprehensive legal and judicial reform can make an important contributio...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 25082Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2004
Rural water supply and sanitation (RWSS) is often a high development priority in communities and there are good examples of communities actively participating in the planning, and implementation of RW...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 33163Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2004
Electronic business is becoming an essential component of private sector development in a growing range of nations to achieve and maintain international competitiveness. This is due basically to its m...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 31117Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2004Autor:
Carrasco Martin,Ana Isabel ;
Hanna,James C. ;
Watt,Charles
The Nicaraguan agricultural and livestock sector experienced wide policy shifts over the last two decades. State intervention during the Sandinista period (1979--1990) was reversed by subsequent gover...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 31118Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2004Autor:
Piccioni,Norman Bentley ;
Santucci,Fabio Maria
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