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
In 1995, Argentina enacted a new modern insolvency law that substantially improved corporate liquidations and rehabilitations. After almost seven years of experience, some legal and institutional weak...
Tipo: Insolvency Assessment (ROSC)Informe#: 37454Fecha: 1 de junio de 2002
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.
Este comunicado de prensa anuncia que la Corporación Financiera Internacional (CFI), entidad del Banco Mundial que promueve inversiones privadas en países en desarrollo, anunció una inversión de US$10...
Tipo: AnnouncementInforme#: 204233Fecha: 28 de mayo de 2002Autor:
International Finance Corporation
Este comunicado de prensa anuncia que la Corporación Financiera Internacional (CFI), la institución afiliada del Grupo del Banco Mundial que se ocupa de la promoción del sector privado, invertirá como...
Tipo: AnnouncementInforme#: 204230Fecha: 16 de mayo de 2002Autor:
International Finance Corporation
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
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.
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 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
Este comunicado de prensa anuncia que esta es la tercera reunión Latinoamericana de Mesa Redonda sobre Gobierno Corporativo que realiza la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos (...
Tipo: AnnouncementInforme#: 204245Fecha: 5 de abril de 2002Autor:
International Finance Corporation
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
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