This comprehensive study identifies the concepts that are central to assessing the effect of infrastructure reform on the poor, based on a detailed analysis of the effects of a decade of reforms in La...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 23950Fecha: 1 de enero de 2004Autor:
Estache,Antonio ;
Foster,Vivien ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
This Annual Review of Environment Matters, dedicated to Economic Growth and the Environment, brings together a wide variety of external and internal viewpoints on the challenges ahead, and the progres...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 30956Fecha: 1 de enero de 2004Autor:
Acharya,Anjali ;
Ahmend, Kulsum ;
Aparakka-Hermantha, Ayesha ;
Cardenas Jimenez, Alberto ;
Gelb,Alan Harold ;
Ghosh,Prodipto ;
Hamilton,Kirk E. ;
Ijjasz-Vasquez, Jorge [editor] ;
Miller,Doug ;
Pearce, David ;
Seymour, Francis ;
Warford,Jeremy James ;
Watson, Robert ;
Wheeler, David ;
Xie Zhenhua
The report contributes to the attainment of a common tool for all social actors in Ecuador, i.e., National and local governments, mining enterprises and workers, rural communities, indigenous populati...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 30415Fecha: 1 de enero de 2004
The Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat is a vital interface between global policies in the economic, social and environmental spheres and national action. The ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 78771Fecha: 1 de enero de 2004
This Guide sets out principles and advice for the procurement of HIV/AIDS medicines and related supplies for programs scaling up antiretroviral therapy (ART) and associated health services, such as ba...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 29707Fecha: 1 de enero de 2004Autor:
Tayler,Yolanda
This Report covers the period July 1, 2003 to June 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), mandated as an Annual Report, and as a public document, to describe the Bank Group's efforts in investigations and sanctions....
Tipo: Board ReportInforme#: 31575Fecha: 1 de enero de 2004
Groundwater is an extensive, concealed and inaccessible resource, and (in contrast to surface water) changes in quantity and quality are often very slow processes occurring below large land areas. The...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30107Fecha: 1 de enero de 2004Autor:
Foster,James Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
Nanni,Marcella ;
Tuinhof,Albert
This poverty assessment was launched with three broad objectives: (1) to update the poverty profile for Nicaragua with data from the 2001 LSMS survey and assess key changes between 1998 and 2001; (2) ...
Tipo: Poverty AssessmentInforme#: 26128Fecha: 23 de diciembre de 2003
In July 2001, the extractive industries review (EIR) was initiated with the appointment of Dr. Emil Salim, former Minister of the Environment for Indonesia, as eminent person to the review. The EIR wa...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 84286Fecha: 13 de diciembre de 2003Autor:
Grutzner, Julia ;
Salim,Emil
Social reforms typically require long-term, incremental policy changes. Traditional World Bank (WB) funding for discrete investments or technical assistance often had little broad policy impact. Even ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 53804Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2003Autor:
Javier,Evangeline ;
Paqueo,Vicente B. ;
Rawlings,Laura B. ;
Rodriguez,Alberto
Despite Argentina's current annual investments for social policies focused on infrastructure sectors, it does social policies lack a coherent framework that guarantees basic levels of access by, and e...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 28121Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2003Autor:
Foster,Vivien
In July 2001, the extractive industries review (EIR) was initiated with the appointment of Dr. Emil Salim, former Minister of the Environment for Indonesia, as eminent person to the review. The EIR wa...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 84286Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2003Autor:
Grutzner, Julia ;
Salim,Emil
The development community is aligned around the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in an unprecedented manner. By focusing on the achievement of quantified and time-bound development targets covering...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27647Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2003
This volume contains: Sector Development Plan; Success facts of the Basic Sector Reforms; New models for water services management; SODIS: Solar water clarification; Water impurity purification by art...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 31709Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2003
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs give families cash to pay for basic health and school expenses (if children attend school and regularly visit health clinics). CCTs have two main objectives: ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 28434Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2003Autor:
Vermehren,Andrea
In July 2001, the extractive industries review (EIR) was initiated with the appointment of Dr. Emil Salim, former Minister of the Environment for Indonesia, as eminent person to the review. The EIR wa...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 84286Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2003Autor:
Grutzner, Julia ;
Salim,Emil
Over two billion people worldwide lack any type of formal social security protection. Poor people are the least likely to benefit from coverage, yet they are the most vulnerable to risk and economic s...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34207Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2003Autor:
Churchill, Craig ;
Cohen,Monique ;
Latortue,Alexia ;
Mccord,Michael J.
This report, Payments and Securities Clearance and Settlement Systems in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union, is one of several public reports in the World Bank series, Western Hemisphere Payments an...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38834Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2003
This Note is intended as a reference document for IFC's sponsors, but the primary target audience is practitioners and/or specialists working in a developing country context and in charge of identifyi...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 31872Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2003Autor:
Brusberg, Eric ;
Pollet, Ted ;
Sequeira,Debra Tina ;
Zevallos,Jose Vicente
The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Debt Initiative, designed to relieve the high external debt burdens of some of the poorest nations, was put in place by the World Bank and the IMF in 1996; a...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27638Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2003
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