Employment protection - the set of rules governing hiring and terminating employees - is a key feature of any country's labor market. What types of contracts will be permitted between employers and em...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30130Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2002Autor:
Betcherman,Gordon ;
Whitehead, Tim [editor]
This report, Payments and securities clearance and settlement systems in Venezuela, is one of several public reports in the World Bank series, Western Hemisphere Payments and Securities Clearance and ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38839Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2002
The international community has made a strong commitment to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Many donor agencies want to know whether microfinance, or financial services for the poor, is an ef...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34189Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2002Autor:
Sananikone,Ousa
Editorial - decentralization and small towns. A dosifier for constant water disinfection used for human water consumption : water disinfection and health; by Ricardo Rojas and Jose Luis Huaman. Region...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 34807Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2002Autor:
Alvarez, Consuelo ;
Cardenas, Zoila ;
Egocheaga, Julio ;
Godoy, Teresa ;
Huaman, Jose Luis ;
Moscoso,Julio ;
Rojas, Jose ;
Rojas,Ricardo
The increasing complexity of development challenges over the past decade has been addressed by heightened efforts of governments, voluntary organizations, and external assistance agencies to learn fro...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24575Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2002Autor:
Campbell-Page, Elizabeth [editor-in-chief]
One of the challenges of rural poverty reduction in Latin America is to enhance non-farm economic activity, diversify employment, and foster enterprise activity. Although poverty has decreased over th...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26725Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2002Autor:
Maria-Valeria Junho Pena, and Kathryn Johns Swartz
Chile's scientific community garners well-deserved respect in the region and worldwide. The country has made significant and fruitful efforts to move towards a leadership position in research among in...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26726Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2002Autor:
Holm-Nielsen,Lauritz B. ;
Norsworthy,Leonid Alexander
The field note illustrates the results of a case study in Colombia, experienced in Antioquia, and its evolution until becoming an alternative model for water supply and sanitation service management, ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 25726Fecha: 30 de noviembre de 2002Autor:
Arevalo-Correa,Carmen ;
Schippner,Beatriz
This document describes the process followed by the Proyecto Piloto de Agua Potable Rural y Salud Comunitaria (PROPILAS) en Cajamarca, Peru, in execution since 1999. Throughout its first phase of impl...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 25291Fecha: 30 de noviembre de 2002Autor:
CARE ;
COSUDE
What has been the impact of the country's economic recession on the health sector and the overall health of Argentinians? This report intends to answer this question based on information available pub...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 25143Fecha: 30 de noviembre de 2002Autor:
Uribe, Juan Pablo ;
Schwab, Nicole
Poor people need financial services to seize business opportunities, to invest in home improvements, and to meet seasonal expenses like school fees and holiday celebrations. They also need financial s...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34188Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2002Autor:
Craig,Kim
The beginning of the new millennium finds the Latin America and Caribbean region having made progress on several fronts. Health and education indicators continue to improve and all but one country hos...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26723Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2002
The paper presents evidence of the magnitude of social costs of the Argentine economic crisis with strong negative effects throughout the income distribution. This paper summarizes the initial results...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 25142Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2002Autor:
Giovagnoli, Paula Ines ;
Aduriz, Isidro ;
Fiszbein,Ariel
This paper examines the main trends in the trade structure of Central American countries during the last two decades; the increasingly important role placed by the United Status as a main trade partne...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 36213Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2002Autor:
Lederman,Daniel ;
Perry,Guillermo ;
Suescun,Rodrigo De Jesus
The report's objectives are i) to better understand the nature and magnitude of urban transport problems, particularly in respect of the poor, and ii) to articulate a strategy by which the World Bank ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 24910Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2002Autor:
Gwilliam,Kenneth M.
Reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that affect climate change is one of the key challenges facing the international community. The Bank's Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF) provi...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26724Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2002Autor:
Fernandez-Asin,Francisco
This volume presents a set of policy notes prepared by the World Bank's Brazil Team with partners during 2002 as a contribution for the debate of policies by the new federal and state governments elec...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 44652Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2002
This paper documents that an international delegation of 89 trade union leaders, of whom 36 were the president or general secretary of their organization (see list attached), took part in three days o...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 41875Fecha: 23 de octubre de 2002
The report argues that Nicaragua's best hope for sustained growth, and poverty reduction, probably lies with agricultural exports, which have the potential to gain from opportunities in world markets....
Tipo: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportInforme#: 25115Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2002
This book is about a collection of speeches delivered since Nicholas Stern became Chief Economist of the World Bank in July 2000. They reflect insights that Mr. Stern has gained over more than three d...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 26059Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2002Autor:
Stern,Nicholas H.
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