The consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) was established in 1971 to scale up years of effort by the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations in supporting four international agric...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27646Fecha: 1 de abril de 2003
This review by the Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) examined to what extent the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Multilateral Guarantee Agency (MIGA) currently deal with...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 108865Fecha: 1 de abril de 2003
More than a quarter of the world's population is between the ages of 10 and 24. Most (86 percent) of the world's 1.7 billion young people live in developing countries, where they are often 30 percent ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 53651Fecha: 1 de abril de 2003
The book intends to trigger, and support policy debate in Colombia. The first part distills four thematic chapters, responsive to the country's current realities, as well as to the five decades of dev...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 25426Fecha: 1 de abril de 2003Autor:
Giugale,Marcelo ;
Lafourcade,Olivier ;
Luff,Connie
In the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch in 1998, the Honduras Interactive Environmental Learning and Science Promotion Project "Profuturo" was launched as a multi-sectoral effort designed to encourage and...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26910Fecha: 1 de abril de 2003Autor:
Pena,Maria-Valeria ;
Brakarz,Barbara
Education is a major instrument for economic growth and poverty reduction. Rapid changes in technology, globalization and economic reforms are creating dramatic shifts in the structure of economies an...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 26289Fecha: 1 de abril de 2003
The Guatemala Poverty Assessment (GUAPA) report was part of a broader, multi-year program of analytical work and technical assistance that signals the commitment of the World Bank to poverty reduction...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26909Fecha: 1 de abril de 2003Autor:
Tesliuc,Emil Daniel ;
Lindert,Kathy A.
The book focuses on three overarching themes: fiscal consolidation and growth; social development; and, quality of government, and, documents Ecuador's development trends, policies, and options. The f...
Tipo: Policy NoteInforme#: 26101Fecha: 1 de abril de 2003Autor:
Fretes-Cibils, Vicente ;
Giugale, Marcelo M. ;
Lopez
This third annual publication in the Series "Thinking Out Loud", is an attempt to increase the knowledge of regional staff, by exchanging experiences among themselves on the issue of engaging civil so...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 26850Fecha: 1 de abril de 2003Autor:
Imparato,Ivo G.P. ;
Nair, Govindar ;
Plaza,Sonia ;
Garrison,John W. ;
Cesilini,Sandra ;
Finger, Susana ;
Bain,Katherine A. ;
Lisansky,Judith M. ;
Sprissler,Loretta ;
Cira,Dean A.
This book presents the main findings from the analysis and diagnosis designed to determine the best support to the Government and civil society in Peru in their fight against exclusion, and in favor o...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 29254Fecha: 1 de abril de 2003
This report, Payments and securities clearance and settlement systems in the Dominican Republic, is one of several public reports in the World Bank series, Western Hemisphere Payments and Securities C...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38831Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2003
In the mid-1990s, many Mexicans lived in poverty without adequate access to health and social services. Of a total population of 84 million, 25 percent were considered poor and 16 percent, extremely p...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26907Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2003Autor:
Marquez,Patricio V. ;
De Geyndt,Willy L.
This report, Payments and Securities Clearance and Settlement Systems in Mexico, is one of several public reports in the World Bank series, Western Hemisphere Payments and Securities Clearance and Set...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38832Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2003
In response to shortages in public budgets for government health services, many developing countries around the world, have adopted formal, or informal systems of user fees for health care. In most co...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 25987Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2003Autor:
Bitran, Ricardo ;
Giedion, Ursula
This note provides practical guidance on rural transport interventions in multi-sectoral and community driven projects. It is targeted at people and agencies involved with physical access issues at th...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 84210Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2003
Despite development initiatives during the last decades, indigenous populations in Latin America are still, by and large, living under poverty and exclusion conditions. Within the Sub-Andean region li...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 29253Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2003Autor:
Guillen Velarde, Mariela [editor]
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
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