This study is of particular relevance as coffee is the most important agricultural commodity in the world, and approximately 25 million families-many of them small and medium producers-in 51 countries...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 34635Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2004Autor:
Castro,Felipe ;
Montes, Eduardo ;
Raine,Martin
Only 30 percent of land suitable for agriculture is utilized for crops (with significant regional variation). More than double the area suitable for pasture is used for livestock grazing, with negativ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30734Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2004Autor:
Deininger,Klaus W. ;
Lavadenz Paccieri,Isabel Graciela
Many Latin American governments have radically restructured their old age income security systems, starting with Chile's 1981 pension reform. The reforms move national pension system from purely socia...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30733Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2004Autor:
Gill,Indermit S. ;
Packard,Truman G. ;
Pugatch,Todd ;
Yermo,Juan
In 1999, between 750 000 and 880 000 persons died in road crashes worldwide, and another 23 to 34 million people were injured. The situation is particularly critical in low and middle income countries...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 53653Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2004
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) has a broad mandate-to promote productive foreign direct investment (FDI) flows into developing countries. The Agency had mixed results in fiscal 2...
Tipo: World Bank Annual ReportInforme#: 30604Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2004
Editorial - dialog and agreement : tools for development. Condominial sewerage networks for north of Lima : the Comas experience; by Omar Macedo and Alejandro Conza. Water and disaster prevention : em...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 34812Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2004Autor:
Arce Moreira, Maria ;
Castillo,Oscar ;
Cieza, Fernando ;
Conza Salas,Alejandro ;
Macedo, Omar ;
Mindreau,Lourdes Elena ;
Rosenauer, Michael
This report presents 8 examples of evaluations that had a significant impact. In many cases it was possible to compare the costs of conducting the evaluation with the economic benefits produced and to...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 32879Fecha: 22 de septiembre de 2004
The World Bank Group announced in 2000 that it will conduct a comprehensive assessment of its activities in the extractive industries (EI) sector (oil, gas, and mining production). This report compris...
Tipo: Board ReportInforme#: 30001Fecha: 17 de septiembre de 2004
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) 2004 annual report covers the fiscal year July 1, 2003 to June 30, 2004. ICSID had another very active year in 2004. A record thi...
Tipo: World Bank Annual ReportInforme#: 33327Fecha: 10 de septiembre de 2004
The Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) is an independent post that reports directly to the President of the World Bank Group. Its mandate is twofold: first to help the International Finance Corporatio...
Tipo: Annual ReportInforme#: 63956Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of development activities provides government officials, development managers, and civil society with better means for learning from past experience, improving service ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 24614Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004Autor:
Bamberger,J. Michael ;
Clark, Mari ;
Sartorius,Rolf
The main objective of the report is to identify infrastructure public sector agencies whose investments, financed with credits, could be removed from the Government fiscal budget. This removal would g...
Tipo: Other Infrastructure StudyInforme#: 32089Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004Autor:
Fainboim Yaker,Israel ;
Rodriguez R., Carlos Jorge
This report explores the impact of infrastructure services in key sectors of the Colombian economy, user's perception of these services, cost structures, and firm productivity. The analysis ends with ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 32091Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004Autor:
Maldonado,Jaime ;
Sardi, Giovanna
This audit for Trade Facilitation and Transport in the Dominican Republic aims to contribute to a comprehensive diagnosis of the status of the efficiency of transport and transaction costs related to ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 47788Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004
The delivery of infrastructure services to marginal and distant populations is a difficult challenge to any country. The cost of service delivery increases and low payment returns makes financing diff...
Tipo: Other Infrastructure StudyInforme#: 32093Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004Autor:
Cardenas Santamaria,Mauricio ;
Melendez, Marcela
This report makes an in depth analysis of how telecommunications have evolved in Colombia, particularly after changes in government regulations since 1990. Despite the increase in private sector capit...
Tipo: Other Infrastructure StudyInforme#: 32086Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2004Autor:
Mendoza Rincon,Ciro
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
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
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
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