Natural disasters made two and a half million people homeless in Latin America between 1990 and 1999. The region has been plagued with an average of 30 disasters causing 7,500 fatalities a year for 30...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 35657Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2003Autor:
Fay,Marianne ;
Ghesquiere,Francis ;
Solo,Tova M.
This report on state-level government procurement systems in Guanajuato, Mexico, begins with the background and objectives of the study. It then analyzes the demographic and economic characteristics o...
Tipo: Country Procurement Assessment (CPAR)Informe#: 72472Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2003
This Address to the Board of Governors in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in September 2003 includes the sections: the region and the world, and a time for action. The region and the world: The developin...
Tipo: President's SpeechInforme#: 36482Fecha: 23 de septiembre de 2003Autor:
Wolfensohn,James D.
This report seeks to identify policy, and institutional reforms to enhance the efficiency, equity, and effectiveness of public expenditures at the federal, and provincial levels in Argentina. These ar...
Tipo: Public Expenditure ReviewInforme#: 25991Fecha: 10 de septiembre de 2003
This report is the latest in a series of now annual progress reports on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process. This report is not comprehensive; the focus is on the implementation of sel...
Tipo: Board ReportInforme#: 30689Fecha: 5 de septiembre de 2003
The overview of the Global Economic Prospects (GEP) 2004 addresses the Doha Agenda and its effects or failures on global trade integration. The document contains commentary and analysis of internation...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 27765Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2003
In 1996 the World Bank launched a comprehensive knowledge sharing initiative, based on the understanding that development knowledge is a global public good that belongs to everyone, and from which eve...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 37226Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2003Autor:
Gwin,Catherine
The Southern States Development Strategy was undertaken in 2002 at the request of the Mexican government. It builds on the 2001 World Bank Report "Mexico, a Comprehensive Development Agenda for the Ne...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 31116Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2003Autor:
Hall,Gillette H. ;
Humphrey,Christopher S.
The Bank is providing technical assistance to the Government of El Salvador, the country's private sector, and civil society to help strengthen corporate social responsibility (CSR) practice, as a com...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 34660Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2003Autor:
Porto Baudet,Santiago Manuel ;
Tsukamoto,Mito ;
Twose,Nigel
The article discusses the 20th century opportunities for rapid natural resource-based growth that Latin America systematically missed. Even if it were the case that resource abundant countries have ex...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 28431Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2003Autor:
Maloney,William F.
A new scenario is rising in Latin America: that of increasing indigenous governance. One decade after the emergence of the region's indigenous peoples, the traditional political order of power is faci...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 42049Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2003
The Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) is an independent post that reports directly to the president of the World Bank Group. Its mandate is twofold: 1)first to help the International Finance Corporat...
Tipo: Annual ReportInforme#: 108398Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2003
Editorial - participatory budget and sanitation. Coverage expansion project by PAC-SEDAPAL : Strategy to offer water and sanitation services to the poorest of Lima; by Jaime Salcedo, Rolando Vasquez a...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 34809Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2003Autor:
Acosta, Javier ;
Alegria G., Julio ;
Campos,Marco ;
Fernandez, Ciro ;
Pacheco, Herberth ;
Salcedo Lobaton,Bernardino Jaime ;
Vasquez Sanabria,Rolando
This note describes the successful experience of the project : Escuela y Casa Saludable, which was initiated in 1966 in Honduras. The project is a joint effort by Servicio Nacional Autonomo de Acueduc...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38726Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2003Autor:
Melghem Mejia,Dora Lorena
This article shares some experiences with different techniques for estimating economic benefits and costs used by the Bank in appraising urban upgrading projects . The projects usually combine infras...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 28430Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2003Autor:
Sotomayor Araujo,Maria Angelica
"From Vision to Action", the Bank's previous rural development strategy launched in 1997, had a decisive influence on global thinking - but disappointing results on the ground. In 2001, lending for ag...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 30411Fecha: 31 de agosto de 2003
The United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have galvanized the development community with an urgent challenge to improve the welfare of the world's neediest people. Donor agencies are ori...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33454Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2003Autor:
Hashemi,Syed Mesbahuddin ;
Littlefield,Elizabeth L. ;
Morduch,Jonathan J.
HIV/AIDS in Latin America falls within the framework of a low endemic setting. In the majority of the countries, the epidemic is still concentrated in high-risk populations: men who have sex with men ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 27581Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2003Autor:
Anabela Garcia Abreu, Isabel Noguer, and Karen Cowgill
The central objective of the Sana'a Basin Water Management Program (SBWMP) (now approved for World Bank funding) is to increase the usable life of the aquifers of the Sana'a Basin - thereby postponing...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 38802Fecha: 1 de agosto de 2003Autor:
Foster,James Stephen
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