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
Este comunicado de prensa anuncia el 21 de febrero de 2003 que la Corporación Financiera Internacional (CFI), entidad del Banco Mundial, entra por primera vez al mercado financiero municipal en México...
Tipo: AnnouncementInforme#: 204151Fecha: 21 de febrero de 2003Autor:
International Finance Corporation
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
The 1990s saw a dramatic increase in the liberalization of transport policies and a strengthening of the role played by private operators and investors in transport infrastructure. Most of these refor...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 20742Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2003Autor:
De Rus Mendoza, Gines ;
Estache, Antonio
Historically, Colombia's "safety nets" were economic growth and a now unsustainable expansion of social services, notably in health, education, and pensions. Social assistance (SA) was not included in...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26905Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2003Autor:
Rawlings, Laura B.
A significant proportion of donor funding in microfinance takes the form of credit components in multi-sectoral projects. Credit is often seen as a tool for achieving the goals of a range of projects ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 34190Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2003Autor:
Clark, Heather Anne
This is an overview of the Global economic Prospect (GEP) 2003. The report outlines steps that rich countries and developing countries can take in the current uncertain economic environment to increas...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 27781Fecha: 31 de enero de 2003
This evaluation assesses how the Bank has implemented Operational Directive (OD) 4.20, a policy that aims to protect the interests of Indigenous Peoples (IP). The OD calls for the preparation of an In...
Tipo: IEG EvaluationInforme#: 25332Fecha: 10 de enero de 2003
This book is organized as follows: Introduction; by William Easterly and Luis Serven Latin America's Infrastructure in The Era of Macroeconomic Crises; by Cesar Calderon, William Easterly, and Luis S...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 27162Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Easterly, William R. ;
Serven, Luis
This report describes how tertiary education contributes to building up a country's capacity for participation in an increasingly knowledge-based world economy and investigates policy options for tert...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 24973Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Court, David ;
Crawford, Michael F. ;
Darvas, Peter ;
Golladay, Fredrick ;
Holm-Nielsen, Lauritz B. ;
Hopper, Richard R. ;
Markov, Andrei R. ;
Millot, Benoit ;
Moock, Peter Russell ;
Mukherjee, Hena G. ;
Saint, William ;
Salmi, Jamil ;
Shrivastava, Shashi K. ;
Steier, Francis A. ;
Van Meel, Rosita Maria
The World Bank Annual Report for 2003, reviews the strategy and action pursued by the Bank, based on the Strategic Framework, and Strategic Directions (and Management Action Plan), focused on meeting ...
Tipo: World Bank Annual ReportInforme#: 27000Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Gagnet, Cathy L. [editor]
Collectively, the six country case studies provide an unusually rich source of material on the local dynamics of the aid business and the realities that countries face when they try to adopt CDF princ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 27149Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003
The importance of economic considerations in groundwater management, and protection lies in that economics deals with the allocation, and use of scarce resources. As long as a resource is abundant, th...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30099Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Foster, James Stephen ;
Garduno, Hector ;
Kemper, Karin Erika ;
Nanni, Marcella ;
Tuinhof, Albert
This note stresses that access to improved water sources and services for basic sanitation influences the obtaining of positive indicators of nutrition, health and education. As a result, efforts to a...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 46594Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003
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