The Northeast region of Brazil has long been the single largest pocket of rural poverty in Latin America. With a combined area of 1.6 million square kilometers-16 percent of Brazil's total-the Northea...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26722Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2002Autor:
Luis Coirolo, and Tulio Barbosa
The Conflict Analysis Framework (CAF), developed by the CPR Unit, aims to integrate sensitivity to conflict in Bank assistance, and to help Bank teams consider factors affecting both conflict and pove...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 25563Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2002Autor:
Shardesai, Shonali ;
Wam,Per
Public primary schooling in Brazil is the responsibility of state and municipal governments and not under the direct jurisdiction of the federal Ministry of Education. As a consequence, when the feder...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26721Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2002Autor:
Horn,Robin Scott
Editorial - new investments in the rural water and sanitation sector and decentralization. Propilas 2 in Cajamarca : local municipalities will design their strategies for water and sanitation projects...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 34806Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2002Autor:
Castillo,Oscar ;
Marcia Linares, Fatima ;
Rojas,Ricardo
This note discusses the emerging issues to which the safeguard system of the World Bank Group must respond, touches on current safeguards-related work undertaken by IFC and MIGA, and makes recommendat...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 34955Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2002
This is the address to the Board of Governors, delivered by Mr. James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank. It was indicated that the development community has confirmed the Millennium Developme...
Tipo: President's SpeechInforme#: 25308Fecha: 29 de septiembre de 2002Autor:
Wolfensohn,James D.
In 1999, 40 percent of the deforestation within the Amazon region took place in Brazil's Mato Grasso agricultural state, which spans almost 91 million hectares and is home to 2.5 million people. In re...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91786Fecha: 17 de septiembre de 2002
Since traditional coffee cultivation can harm the ecosystem, efforts have been made to develop methods that will help maintain biodiversity. Shade-grown coffee seems to be one answer. As part of a Cof...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91794Fecha: 17 de septiembre de 2002
With more than half of its two million inhabitants living in unplanned squatter settlements, the Venezuelan capital of Caracas is faced with immense challenge in delivering basic services to its peopl...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91790Fecha: 17 de septiembre de 2002
This Results Profile briefly mentions the World Bank's $2 billion in loans to support the Brazilian government's water resource activities. As a result, the number of people with a reliable access to ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91944Fecha: 17 de septiembre de 2002
Under the Program for Normalization of Informal Areas, Light Serviços de Electricidade SA, Rio's main power provider, is working in the city's low-income communities to establish and upgrade power net...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91943Fecha: 17 de septiembre de 2002
This note on the process of preparation of reforms in the water sector for the benefit of the poor in Katmandu is part of an investigative initiative. It stresses the reality that the private sector h...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 46910Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2002
This paper discusses the range of food-based transfers that are typically used in social safety net programs. The authors have tried to provide guidance as to the appropriate context for different kin...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 29735Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2002Autor:
Lorge Rogers, Beatrice ;
Coates, Jennifer
This paper will consider a range of consumer-oriented subsidy instruments, including general subsidies, and tax exemptions as well as targeted quotas. Section II discusses the distribution, or inciden...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 25299Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2002Autor:
Alderman,Harold H.
Microfin is designed to support your business planning processes, by generating an integrated, detailed set of five-year projections to help you assess the viability of your plan. This handbook explai...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 34258Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2002Autor:
Lunde,Shirley
OED's first Annual Report on Evaluation Capacity Development (AREC) finds that the World Bank is increasing its support for Evaluation Capacity Development (ECD) activities and is currently active in ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27641Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2002
Why do microfinance institutions (MFIs) charge such high interest rates to the poor? This brief highlights some of the key issues related to microcredit interest rates and the role of donors. Microcr...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34186Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2002Autor:
Goodwin-Groen,Ruth P.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been adopted by the international community as a series of development targets to be accomplished over the period 1990-2015. The MDGs are an expanded set o...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26717Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2002Autor:
Hicks,Norman L. ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
According to the World Resources Institute, at current rates of deforestation and land clearance, 5 to 10 percent of tropical forest biodiversity will vanish over the next three decades. There are man...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27685Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 2002
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