This Results Profiles focuses on the Judicial Reform Project for Ecuador. The project aims at increasing efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency in judicial process by: 1) improving administratio...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91746Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002
As in any society, access to information and the ability to communicate are essential if people are to participate in economic development. In five countries of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean S...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91745Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002
This Results Profile focuses on the Rural Road Rehabilitation and Maintenance Project for Peru. This project will reduce rural poverty and integrate remote zones through the rehabilitation of the tran...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91747Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002
In 1990, Brazil had one of the world's largest numbers of reported acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) cases in the world. In 1993, the World Bank approved 160 million dollars for the AIDS and s...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 91734Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002
The purpose of this GW MATE consultancy was to undertake a diagnosis of groundwater conditions, use and status in Gran Asuncion and to identify issues that could influence overall water-sector policy ...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 38803Fecha: 1 de julio de 2002Autor:
Foster,James Stephen ;
Garduno,Hector
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) 2002 annual report, discusses the challenges for MIGA during FY02, when a confluence of events, a troubled world economy, and the financial crisis i...
Tipo: World Bank Annual ReportInforme#: 26791Fecha: 30 de junio de 2002
The report reviews the substantial progress Costa Rica made over the past decade in reducing poverty and improving social indicators. However, while economic growth certainly reduced poverty rates, th...
Tipo: Other Social Protection StudyInforme#: 24300Fecha: 28 de junio de 2002
For 30 years, grants have been controversial as a World Bank operational instrument. In practice, they have proven useful in circumstances where an important development need could not be met through ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27688Fecha: 21 de junio de 2002
As they undertook the difficult transition to a market economy, the countries of Eastern Europe found that they needed to radically reform their health sectors. The scope, pace, and outcome of the ref...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27689Fecha: 21 de junio de 2002Autor:
Campbell0Page, Elizabeth (editor-in-chief)
Roughly 2.6 million high-efficiency light bulbs were sold below-cost to residential consumers of electricity in two Mexican cities as part of a pilot demonstration project for high-efficiency lighting...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27683Fecha: 21 de junio de 2002Autor:
MCEven, Caroline (series editor)
The present study describes, and quantifies the provision of basic urban services to the poor, in three Central American cities in El Salvador, Honduras, and, Panama. It also identifies priority areas...
Tipo: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportInforme#: 22590Fecha: 3 de junio de 2002
The present study describes, and quantifies the provision of basic urban services to the poor, in three Central American cities in El Salvador, Honduras, and, Panama. It also identifies priority areas...
Tipo: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportInforme#: 22590Fecha: 3 de junio de 2002
Since the Social Development Summit in Copenhagen in 1995, there has been a progressive search for mechanisms to incorporate the social dimension systematically in the development agenda. Three core t...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 33963Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002Autor:
Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes ;
Fernandez Franco,Emiliano Rolando ;
GORDON, SARAH ;
Gutierrez-Espeleta, Edgar E. ;
Morrison,Andrew R. ;
Orlando,Maria Beatriz ;
Juan Pablo,Perez Sainz ;
Rodriguez,Ernesto ;
Sojo, Carlos [editor] ;
Strasser, Carlos
This book helps us to understand development economics in light of the past half-century's experience of development thought and practice. This volume is an outgrowth of an intergenerational symposium...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 21747Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002Autor:
Meier,Gerald M. ;
Stiglitz, Joseph E. [editors]
This report assesses the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the free trade agreement negotiated by Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, with the United States. The r...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 30142Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002Autor:
Gonzalez,Anabel
Following a request from the Western Hemisphere Finance Ministers, the World Bank (WB) launched in January 1999 the Western Hemisphere Payments and Securities Clearance and Settlement Initiative. The ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38828Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002
Societies and economies around the world are becoming more integrated. Integration is the result of reduced costs of transport, lower trade barriers, faster communication of ideas, rising capital flow...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 23591Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002
The poor save all the time. Savings are often the only way the poor can manage to pay for a major life event (such as a marriage or funeral), survive a natural disaster, or take advantage of a busines...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34184Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002
While the changing world of communications basic mission has not changed in the five years since the publication of Redirecting Mail, a great deal in the environment surrounding our sector has. The mo...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 25932Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002Autor:
Ianni, Juan B. ;
Lohmeyer, Jurgen
Many inhabitants of rural areas in developing countries lack adequate and affordable access to transport infrastructure and services. Improving rural people's access to essential services requires bet...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 44952Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002Autor:
Starkey, Paul ;
Ellis,Simon David ;
Hine,John L. ;
Ternell,Anna
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