An action plan to address serious groundwater contamination by naturally-occurring arsenic in the Terai Plains of Nepal, within a wider approach to groundwater quality management including institution...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 38812Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004Autor:
Nanni,Marcella ;
Tuinhof,Albert
This Public Expenditure Review (PER) concentrates on four main issues: the overall fiscal sustainability and rigidities in expenditure, the distribution of benefits of public spending across household...
Tipo: Public Expenditure ReviewInforme#: 27894Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004
The high interest rates charged by many microfinance institutions (MFIs) have attracted the attention of policy makers throughout the world. Several concerns have been raised: Why do institutions that...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 33479Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004Autor:
Helms,Brigit S. ;
Reille,Xavier
Microfinance enables the poor to build assets, diversify and increase incomes, and reduce their vulnerability to economic stress. Microfinance is sustainable: dozens of institutions have proved that f...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 83149Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004Autor:
Littlefield,Elizabeth L. ;
Rosenberg,Richard
This study presents the evolution, present situation, and perspectives of the water supply and sanitation sector in Colombia. The sector is totally decentralized, given local administrators of the 110...
Tipo: Other Infrastructure StudyInforme#: 32088Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004Autor:
Tuzman Fernandez,Diego
As in most Latin American countries, the water and sanitation sector of Honduras is going through a decentralization process that induces profound changes. New regulatory, technical, planning and poli...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 31717Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004
The overall objective of this analysis is to identify investment priorities and need of reforms by assisting the government to develop a strategy for World Bank financing. The paper presents an exhaus...
Tipo: Other Infrastructure StudyInforme#: 32087Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004Autor:
Ospina Ovalle,German A.
This report covers how subsidies have been applied to utility users with differing income levels. Addressing subsidies in Colombia is complex. Prior to 1994 the Government was the owner, distributor, ...
Tipo: Other Infrastructure StudyInforme#: 32092Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004Autor:
Casas, Camila ;
Medina Guzman,Juan Pablo ;
Melendez Arjona,Marcela
This paper poses the key question as to what extent can carefully-deployed, low-cost, recharge structures be used to enhance groundwater resources and rejuvenate drinking water wells preferentially - ...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 38811Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004Autor:
Foster,Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector
The issues addressed in this Country Financial Accountability Assessment (CFAA), lie at the very core of the Government of Paraguay's performance, and its fight against corruption. The outputs of the ...
Tipo: Country Financial Accountability AssessmentInforme#: 30084Fecha: 26 de agosto de 2004
In the province of Manabi, Ecuador, the Poverty Reduction and Local Rural Development Project (PROLOCAL) has partnered with a group of community based organizations to harness a community radio's pote...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30732Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2004Autor:
Pichon,Francisco J. ;
Rueda,Manuel ;
Santi,Emanuele
Chile's public procurement system is considered generally free of corruption, supported by probity of the civil servants, decentralization, and good budgetary and control systems. However, it is affec...
Tipo: Country Procurement Assessment (CPAR)Informe#: 28914Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2004
Inadequate sanitation and housing threaten the lives and health of 600 million urban dwellers worldwide. By applying good microfinance practice to housing finance, a range of financial institutions ar...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34240Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2004Autor:
Brusky,Bonnie
This latest Voices of the Poor study advances the participatory research tradition of the previous World Bank Voices works with new modules focusing on poor peoples' action recommendations. In the sum...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 29890Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2004Autor:
Arboleda,Jairo A. ;
Blackburn,James ;
Petesch,Patti L.
In this issue: Highlights of May Council Meeting. News from GEF focal areas. News from GEF implementing agencies. GEF country activities/issues. New GEF publications.
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 37622Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2004
Throughout the development of the microfinance industry, network support organizations (NSOs) have played a critical role in launching new institutions, developing standards, wholesaling funds, provid...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33456Fecha: 1 de julio de 2004Autor:
Cook,Tamara B. ;
Isem, Jennifer
The Dominican Republic has 120,000 persons living with AIDS (PLWAs), 9 times the total number of reported cases. About 20,000 people have died from AIDS in the last decade. HIV/AIDS is the leading cau...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30729Fecha: 1 de julio de 2004Autor:
Marquez,Patricio V. ;
Montalvo, Luis Emilio
Most participants in the microfinance movement of recent decades see their goal as improving the availability and quality of financial services for poor and near-poor clients. Thus far, much of the mo...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 33478Fecha: 1 de julio de 2004Autor:
Jayadeva,Veena ;
Peck Christen, Robert ;
Rosenberg,Richard
This paper develops a diagnostic and propose recommendations necessary for strengthening the institutional capacity of government entities responsible for regulating and supervising public service del...
Tipo: Other Infrastructure StudyInforme#: 32094Fecha: 1 de julio de 2004Autor:
Caballero Argauez, Carlos ;
Jadresic,Alejandro ;
Ramirez Gomez, Manuel
On one level, poverty exacerbates gender disparities. Inequalities between girls and boys in access to schooling or adequate health care are more acute among the poor than among those with higher inco...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 21776Fecha: 1 de julio de 2004Autor:
Mason,Andrew D. ;
King,Elizabeth M.
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