The note seeks to provide companies who are interested in addressing the topic of child labor with a range of basic, good practice approaches that other businesses have successfully applied in address...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 26766Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002
The aim of this paper, Glosario de terminus utilizados en los sistemas de pago y liquidaciones, a part of the Western Hemisphere Payments and Securities Clearance and Settlement Initiative, is to desc...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 45648Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002
The proliferation of urban slums is due in large part to obsolete regulatory, legal and institutional frameworks at the local level governing land use, development standards, land registration and tit...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24517Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002Autor:
Cira,Dean A.
An analyst using household survey data to construct a welfare metric is often confronted with onfronted with An analyst using household survey data to construct a welfare metric is often confronted wi...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: LSM135Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2002Autor:
Deaton, Angus ;
Zaidi, Salman
The report examines the gender dimensions of alcohol consumption, and alcohol-related problems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. It finds that alcohol use is one of the major causes of ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: WDP435Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2002Autor:
Claeson,Mariam ;
Correia,Maria C. ;
Pyne,Hnin Hnin
Despite their value, environmental services are often lost as land users typically receive no compensation for the services their land generates for others and therefore have no economic reason to tak...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 29671Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2002Autor:
Pagiola,Stefano P. ;
Platais,Gunars H.
These Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers (January 1997, revised September 1997, January 1999, and May 2002) replace the 1981 Guidelines: Use of Consultants by ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 95661Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2002
The report examines the gender dimensions of alcohol consumption, and alcohol-related problems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. It finds that alcohol use is one of the major causes of ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: WDP433Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2002Autor:
Hnin Hnin Pyne ;
Claeson, Mariam ;
Correia, Maria
This report makes several policy conclusions related to urban poverty and development in Uruguay and potentially the rest of Latin America. First, policies which prioritize improvements in access to q...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24499Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2002Autor:
Baker,Judy L.
This note synthesizes the findings of research on trade and labor in the region, including World Bank studies on: (i) trade and job quality, (ii) informality, and (iii) labor policies in the region. F...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24498Fecha: 1 de mayo de 2002Autor:
Gill,Indermit S. ;
Maloney,William F. ;
Sanchez-Paramo, Carolina
By many measures the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) is a highly successful NGO-run rural development program. It reaches some 900,000 people in about 1,100 villages in the Northern Areas and C...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27684Fecha: 1 de abril de 2002
The Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE) for Russia, covering the period from 1992 to 2001, showed disappointing but improving results for the World Bank's activities in the Russian Federation. Althoug...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27686Fecha: 1 de abril de 2002Autor:
Campbell-Page, Elizabeth [editor]
This paper presents the strategy of the World Bank Group. It provides an expansion of information on infrastructure in developing countries and transition economies. It summarizes also the main operat...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 88214Fecha: 1 de abril de 2002
This report is part of the Comparative Study on the Generation and Distribution of Oil Rents, with inclusion of Indigenous Communities, implemented in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. The study w...
Tipo: ESMAP PaperInforme#: 25217Fecha: 31 de marzo de 2002
The urban share of Bolivia's population has doubled since the late 1970s. Providing adequate water and sanitation services has proved a major challenge. To understand the lessons of the Bolivian exper...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24578Fecha: 23 de marzo de 2002Autor:
Campbell-Page, Elizabeth [editor-in-chief]
In 1997 more than 1.1 billion people in low- and middle-income countries lacked access to safe water supplies, and far more were without adequate sanitation. Today, 166 million people in 18 countries ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 24577Fecha: 20 de marzo de 2002Autor:
Campbell-Page, Elizabeth [editor-in-chief]
The document invites reflection upon the alternatives to policies affecting higher education in Latin America, focusing on lessons learned offered by the Universidad de Argentina, as a contribution to...
Tipo: LAC Human & Social Development Group Paper SeriesInforme#: 32442Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2002Autor:
Del Bello,Juan Carlos
Editorial - an opportunity for the water and sanitation sector. From the indigenous peoples point of view : water supply is part of a cycle that belongs to humans; by Rosa Meza (OPS/OMS). Water and sa...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 34805Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2002Autor:
Aguero, Roger ;
Aguilar Macizo, Juan Carlos ;
Meza, Rosa ;
Reyes, Raul
This document is the first systematic discussion of the most important lessons of the APPJ Project of the European Union, which was implemented between the years 1993 and 2001. The project was prepare...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 46868Fecha: 1 de marzo de 2002
This paper points out that Colombia has been engaged since the early nineties in an intensive effort to fight against corruption. Despite the efforts made, the perception of the general population is ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 49958Fecha: 7 de febrero de 2002
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