The contents of this document are based on a criterion for the prevention of delinquency through the design of the urban environment. This strategy for the prevention of delinquency, known as CPTED (C...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 35136Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003
The contents of this document are based on a criterion for the prevention of delinquency through the design of the urban environment. This strategy for the prevention of delinquency, known as CPTED (C...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 35136Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003
The note addresses the importance of groundwater abstraction rights, and why water rights' systems are needed. The right to abstract (or divert), and use water (including groundwater), can be granted ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30093Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Dumars,Charles ;
Foster,James Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
Nanni,Marcella ;
Tuinhof,Albert
The note highlights the importance of stakeholder participation in groundwater management, because groundwater stakeholders are those who have an important interest in the resources of a specified aqu...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30094Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Dumars,Charles ;
Foster,James Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Nanni,Marcella ;
Tuinhof,Albert ;
Kemper,Karin Erika
The note characterizes groundwater systems, reviews key concepts and frequent misconceptions, and explains how aquifers differ from one another. Groundwater flows generally take place in a myriad of i...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30090Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Foster,James Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
Nanni,Marcella ;
Tuinhof,Albert
Understanding the situation of urban indigenous people in Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador entails the definition of the social exclusion concept, central to the three case studies. The concept of social exc...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 35841Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Carrasco,Tania ;
Rees, Martha [editors] ;
Uquillas Rodas,Jorge E.
The World Development Report (WDR) 2004 builds an analytical, and practical framework for using resources, whether internal or external, more effectively by making services work for poor people. The f...
Tipo: World Development ReportInforme#: 26886Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003
The note provides an introduction to groundwater resource management, its scope and practice, and aims at clarifying the difference between surface water and groundwater, as follows. Groundwater diffe...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30089Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Dumars,Charles ;
Foster,James Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
Nanni,Marcella ;
Tuinhof,Albert
The note reviews country legislation over groundwater resources, specifying many governments have introduced legislation to regulate groundwater development, and to constrain activities that might com...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30092Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Dumars,Charles ;
Foster,James Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector ;
Kemper,Karin Erika ;
Nanni,Marcella ;
Tuinhof,Albert
A purpose of this book is to present recent World Bank analytical work on the causes of violence and conflict in Colombia, highlighting pilot lending programs oriented to promote peace and development...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 21594Fecha: 31 de diciembre de 2002Autor:
Pastrano, Andres ;
Moser,Caroline O. ;
Lopez-Montano, Cecilia ;
Garcia Duran, Arturo ;
Colleta, Nat ;
Kostner,Markus ;
Cleves,Patricia ;
Mendelson Forman,Johanna ;
Solimano,Andres R.
The issues related to women and gender within the context of the water and sanitation sector, are controversial since 1981-1990 where women were the sole participants in water programs. Since then, th...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 25725Fecha: 31 de diciembre de 2002Autor:
Nino De Guzman,Jessica ;
Zevallos, Mercedes C.
This report examines the effect of gender on socio-economic outcomes in three Caribbean countries: the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica. Organized in three separate country notes, it covers: demo...
Tipo: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportInforme#: 21866Fecha: 11 de diciembre de 2002
Latin America missed opportunities for rapid resource-based growth that similarly endowed countries-Australia, Canada, Scandinavia-were able to take advantage of. Fundamental to this poor performance ...
Tipo: Policy Research Working PaperInforme#: WPS2935Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2002Autor:
Maloney,William F.
Over the past 40 years, "active" labor market programs (ALMPs) have emerged as an important employment policy tool. Their objective is primarily economic - to increase the probability that the unempl...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30131Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2002Autor:
Dar,Amit ;
Whitehead, Tim [editor]
In 1994, the World Bank significantly expanded the information that it makes available to the public. In 2001, after a major review of the information disclosure policy, involving extensive public con...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 24100Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2002
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 Ecuador, is one of several public reports in the World Bank series, Western Hemisphere Payments and Securities Clearance and Se...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38837Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2002
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
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