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 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. ;
Van Meel, Rosita Maria ;
Millot, Benoit ;
Moock, Peter Russell ;
Mukherjee, Hena G. ;
Saint, William ;
Salmi, Jamil ;
Shrivastava, Shashi K. ;
Steier, Francis A.
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
The handbook covers the conceptual and methodological aspects for measuring the disaster that causes damage in the capital gains and output streams of goods and services, in addition to estimating the...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 47583Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Comision Economica para America Latina y el Caribe
The purpose of this Quality Management in Photovoltaics training manual is to help the photovoltaics manufacturers install their own quality management systems and meet established international quali...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 34071Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Dominguez, Ramon ;
Schaeffer, Loretta ;
Varadi, Peter F.
Civil war conflict is a core development issue. The existence of civil war can dramatically slow a country's development process, especially in low-income countries, which are more vulnerable to civil...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 26121Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Collier, Paul ;
Elliott, V. L. ;
Hegre, Havard ;
Hoeff
In Asia and Africa particularly, public works programs have significantly mitigated the negative effects of climatic risks on poor farmers, and farm laborers. These programs typically provide unskille...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 25606Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Subbarao, Kalanidhi
This evaluation report synthesizes the findings of a multi-partner effort to assess implementation of the Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF). The evaluation's primary objectives are to: Identif...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 27154Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003
The note reviews how urban wastewater relate to groundwater, to what extent is wastewater a groundwater pollution hazard, and what types of measures are available for reducing risks, and increasing be...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30104Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Foster, James Stephen ;
Garduno, Hector ;
Kemper, Karin Erika ;
Nanni, Marcella ;
Tuinhof, Albert
The objective of this study is to analyze existing regulations pertaining to reproductive health at the federal and provincial level. The analysis includes political, cultural, demographics, geopoliti...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 36409Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
(Editors) ;
Cesilini, Sandra ;
Gherardi, Natalia
The handbook covers the conceptual and methodological aspects for measuring the disaster that causes damage in the capital gains and output streams of goods and services, in addition to estimating the...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 47583Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Comision Economica para America Latina y el Caribe
The largest hydrographic basin in the world, the Amazon is the source of 20 percent of all the fresh water on the planet. The Basin covers some 600 million hectares in nine countries, over half of whi...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26727Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003
An estimated 40 million of the 115 million children out of school have disabilities. The vast majority of these children have moderate impairments that are often not visible or easily diagnosed. Disab...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 26602Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Peters, Susan J.
This report focuses not only on the gaps facing Latin America in both education and technology, but especially on the interactions between the two. The central premise of the report is that skills and...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 25834Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
De Ferranti, David ;
Perry, Guillermo E. ;
Gill, Ind
The handbook covers the conceptual and methodological aspects for measuring the disaster that causes damage in the capital gains and output streams of goods and services, in addition to estimating the...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 47583Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Comision Economica para America Latina y el Caribe
The handbook covers the conceptual and methodological aspects for measuring the disaster that causes damage in the capital gains and output streams of goods and services, in addition to estimating the...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 47583Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Comision Economica para America Latina y el Caribe
The note explains groundwater resources are never strictly non-renewable. But in certain cases the period needed for replenishment (100s to 1000s of years) is very long in relation to the normal time-...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 30101Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003Autor:
Foster, James Stephen ;
Garduno, Hector ;
Kemper, Karin Erika ;
Nanni, Marcella ;
Tuinhof, Albert
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: 1 de enero de 2003
Consideration of lifelong learning extends the World Bank's traditional approach to education, in which subsectors are looked at in isolation. Three years ago, when he articulated the Comprehensive De...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 26001Fecha: 1 de enero de 2003
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