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
En este comunicado de prensa se anuncia el 26 de Enero de 2006 que el retraso en las exportaciones perjudica a las economías de los países en desarrollo, según un nuevo estudio del Banco Mundial y la ...
Tipo: AnnouncementInforme#: 210417Fecha: 26 de enero de 2006Autor:
International Finance Corporation
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
En este comunicado de prensa se anuncia que la Corporación Financiera Internacional (CFI) está recibiendo comentarios de las partes interesadas sobre el Estudio de Impacto Acumulativo (CIS) de las pla...
Tipo: AnnouncementInforme#: 210382Fecha: 20 de enero de 2006Autor:
International Finance Corporation
En el presente comunicado de prensa se anuncia que el 18 de Enero de 2006 la Corporación Financiera Internacional (CFI) y el Banco Mundial respaldarán la construcción del sistema de transporte colecti...
Tipo: AnnouncementInforme#: 210525Fecha: 18 de enero de 2006Autor:
International Finance Corporation
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
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 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
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
Cash transfers can be defined as the provision of assistance in the form of cash to the poor or those who face a probable risk, in the absence of the transfer, of falling into poverty. Cash transfers,...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33355Fecha: 1 de enero de 2006Autor:
Blomquist, John D. ;
Mackintosh, Fiona J.
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 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]
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
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