This paper explains the five core elements of effectiveness - strategic planning and coherence; strong staff capacity; accountability for results; relevant knowledge management; and, appropriate instr...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 35813Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004
Health care waste management (HCWM) is a process to help ensure proper hospital hygiene and safety of health care workers and communities. It includes planning and procurement, construction, staff tra...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 53652Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004
This report develops the sectoral, structural, and financial composition of public spending in human development, setting analytical basis for a greater human development in the future. In particular,...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 29005Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004Autor:
Bonari, Damian ;
Becerra, Marcelo ;
Fiszbein, Arie
The first case of HIV/AIDS was detected in Barbados in 1984. At that time, HIV/AIDS was viewed more as a consequence of risky personal behavior by men who have sex with men than as a public health iss...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30724Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004Autor:
Marquez,Patricio V.
GW MATE provided general advice to Comision Nacional del Agua (CNA) on the preparation and implementation of the World Bank-funded MASAS Project for the stabilization of selected Mexican aquifers thro...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 38810Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004Autor:
Foster,Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Kemper,Karin Erika
This research assesses current state of knowledge about the impact of HIV/AIDS on individuals with disability and on disabled populations. The paper Documents current activities related to HIV/AIDS an...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 34313Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004Autor:
Groce,Nora Ellen
Brazil enjoys human and natural resources unavailable to most countries. Its assets include a diverse, energetic population and a vast territory that encompasses the world's largest rain forest and up...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30725Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004Autor:
Furtado,Angela C.
In most developing and industrial countries, infrastructure services have traditionally been provided by government enterprises, but in developing countries at least, these enterprises have often prov...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 28816Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004Autor:
J. Luis Guasch
This note summarizes the findings of the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention, and provides guidelines to assist with the implementation of its recommendations. The report, jointly issued o...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 29557Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004Autor:
Bliss, Tony
Many countries have initiated pension reform to cope with aging populations and fiscally unsustainable pension systems. The reforms often aim to separate the safety net and savings functions of pensio...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30199Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004Autor:
Van Selm,Alexandra
Empowerment is a critical element in the fight against poverty. In its broadest sense, empowerment refers to the freedom of choice and action to shape one's future. Its critical dimensions include par...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 30332Fecha: 1 de abril de 2004Autor:
Bain,Katherine A. ;
Cesilini,Sandra ;
Dalmazo, Raul ;
Guzman Escobar,Armando Eduardo ;
John-Abraham,Indu ;
Martin,Lisandro Roman ;
Moreno Torres,Magui ;
Pinto-Rodrigues,Marla Mccarroll ;
Ruan,Guillermo ;
Russo,Francesca ;
Smyle,James W. ;
Solana,Miguel ;
Tarifa,Ricardo L. B. ;
Trommer,Josef S. ;
Weiss, Zeze
This report provides an assessment of accounting, financial reporting and auditing practices within the corporate sector in Ecuador, using International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and Intern...
Tipo: Accounting and Auditing Assessment (ROSC)Informe#: 35079Fecha: 18 de marzo de 2004Autor:
Fortin,Henri ;
Rahman,M. Zubaidur
The economic performance of the Dominican Republic over the past three years, has been less impressive than in the 1990s. During 2001-2002, economic growth slowed down to 3.5 percent per annum on aver...
Tipo: Public Expenditure ReviewInforme#: 23852Fecha: 15 de marzo de 2004
The economic performance of the Dominican Republic over the past three years, has been less impressive than in the 1990s. During 2001-2002, economic growth slowed down to 3.5 percent per annum on aver...
Tipo: Public Expenditure ReviewInforme#: 23852Fecha: 15 de marzo de 2004
Bolivia made progress in health status and equity in the last decade, thanks to the implementation of a series of health policies directed primarily at reducing maternal and infant mortality and contr...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 27929Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2004
Faced with alarming results, the Government of Antioquia, oversaw the preparation of the Quality Improvement for Basic Education Project by the Secretariat of Education and Culture, which together wit...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 29647Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2004Autor:
Laverde, Marha
A common vision and a consistent effort on the part of Chilean governments from the late 1960s to the present have placed Chile at an advanced stage of educational development. Today, primary educatio...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 28479Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2004Autor:
Holm-Nielsen, Lauritz ;
Thorn, Kristian ;
Prawda,
Forests are lost because conservation and sustainable management is less profitable then deforestation, at least in the short term. Payments for environmental services - such as watershed management, ...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 33111Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2004Autor:
Ivers,Laura A.
This book focuses on how the demand for microfinance can be met on a global scale. It documents the contributions of institutions and of people who have led the development of commercial finance for t...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 23250Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2004Autor:
Fidler,Peter J. ;
Robinson,Marguerite S.
The 1999 CAS described four strategies for a ten-year framework to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development in the Dominican Republic: sustaining economic growth, increasing the poor's acces...
Tipo: CAS Progress ReportInforme#: 25745Fecha: 3 de febrero de 2004
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