Small businesses are important for employment creation and growth in Chile. They provide 73 percent of all private sector employment; half in micro-businesses (own account and firms employing fewer th...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26908Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2003Autor:
Hanna,James C.
new framework for poverty reduction was proposed by the staffs of the World Bank and IMF, and endorsed in 1999 by the Interim and Development Committees. The framework's key objective is to assist cou...
Tipo: IEG EvaluationInforme#: 30926Fecha: 28 de febrero de 2003
Knowledge based economies have an advantage in today's liberalized global market. OECD countries with extensive knowledge assets are able to drive rapid technological progress and reap the benefits in...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26906Fecha: 7 de febrero de 2003Autor:
Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen, Andreas Blom, Patricia Garcia
Legal services in Ecuador have historically suffered from serious shortcomings, including a lack of institutionalization, insufficient funding, and limited human resources. For poor women, and childre...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 26915Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2003
The 1990s saw a dramatic increase in the liberalization of transport policies and a strengthening of the role played by private operators and investors in transport infrastructure. Most of these refor...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 20742Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2003Autor:
Estache,Antonio ;
De Rus Mendoza,Gines
Historically, Colombia's "safety nets" were economic growth and a now unsustainable expansion of social services, notably in health, education, and pensions. Social assistance (SA) was not included in...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26905Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2003Autor:
Rawlings,Laura B.
A significant proportion of donor funding in microfinance takes the form of credit components in multi-sectoral projects. Credit is often seen as a tool for achieving the goals of a range of projects ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34190Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2003Autor:
Clark,Heather Anne
This is an overview of the Global economic Prospect (GEP) 2003. The report outlines steps that rich countries and developing countries can take in the current uncertain economic environment to increas...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 27781Fecha: 31 de enero de 2003
This evaluation assesses how the Bank has implemented Operational Directive (OD) 4.20, a policy that aims to protect the interests of Indigenous Peoples (IP). The OD calls for the preparation of an In...
Tipo: IEG EvaluationInforme#: 25332Fecha: 10 de enero de 2003
This report describes how tertiary education contributes to building up a country's capacity for participation in an increasingly knowledge-based world economy and investigates policy options for tert...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 24973Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Court, David ;
Crawford,Michael F. ;
Darvas,Peter ;
Golladay,Fredrick ;
Holm-Nielsen,Lauritz B. ;
Hopper,Richard R. ;
Markov,Andrei R. ;
Van Meel,Rosita Maria ;
Millot,Benoit ;
Moock,Peter Russell ;
Mukherjee,Hena G. ;
Saint,William ;
Salmi,Jamil ;
Shrivastava,Shashi K. ;
Steier,Francis A.
This book is organized as follows: Introduction; by William Easterly and Luis Serven Latin America's Infrastructure in The Era of Macroeconomic Crises; by Cesar Calderon, William Easterly, and Luis S...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 27162Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Easterly,William R. ;
Serven,Luis
The World Bank Annual Report for 2003, reviews the strategy and action pursued by the Bank, based on the Strategic Framework, and Strategic Directions (and Management Action Plan), focused on meeting ...
Tipo: World Bank Annual ReportInforme#: 27000Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Gagnet, Cathy L. [editor]
Collectively, the six country case studies provide an unusually rich source of material on the local dynamics of the aid business and the realities that countries face when they try to adopt CDF princ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 27149Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003
The importance of economic considerations in groundwater management, and protection lies in that economics deals with the allocation, and use of scarce resources. As long as a resource is abundant, th...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30099Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Foster,James Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
Nanni,Marcella ;
Tuinhof,Albert
This note stresses that access to improved water sources and services for basic sanitation influences the obtaining of positive indicators of nutrition, health and education. As a result, efforts to a...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 46594Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003
The handbook covers the conceptual and methodological aspects for measuring the disaster that causes damage in the capital gains and output streams of goods and services, in addition to estimating the...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 47583Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Comision Economica para America Latina y el Caribe
The purpose of this Quality Management in Photovoltaics training manual is to help the photovoltaics manufacturers install their own quality management systems and meet established international quali...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 34071Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Dominguez, Ramon ;
Schaeffer,Loretta ;
Varadi, Peter F.
Civil war conflict is a core development issue. The existence of civil war can dramatically slow a country's development process, especially in low-income countries, which are more vulnerable to civil...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 26121Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Collier, Paul ;
Elliott, V. L. ;
Hegre, Havard ;
Hoeff
In Asia and Africa particularly, public works programs have significantly mitigated the negative effects of climatic risks on poor farmers, and farm laborers. These programs typically provide unskille...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 25606Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Subbarao,Kalanidhi
The objective of this study is to analyze existing regulations pertaining to reproductive health at the federal and provincial level. The analysis includes political, cultural, demographics, geopoliti...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 36409Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
(Editors) ;
Cesilini,Sandra ;
Gherardi, Natalia
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