Poor urban populations are without access to the water and sanitation services, despite sector modernization. This has raised interest in the small-scale and informal private sector. These small provi...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 33106Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 1998Autor:
Snell,Suzanne M.
Microfinance is the provision of banking services for the poor. Over the past 20 years, the field has been revolutionized as dozens of microfinance institutions (MFIs) have demonstrated the feasibilit...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 34259Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 1998Autor:
Holtz, Paul [editor] ;
Peck Christen, Robert ;
Rosenberg,Richard
Microfinance is the provision of banking services for the poor. Over the past 20 years, the field has been revolutionized as dozens of microfinance institutions (MFIs) have demonstrated the feasibilit...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 34259Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 1998Autor:
Holtz, Paul [editor] ;
Peck Christen, Robert ;
Rosenberg,Richard
The study explores the unprecedented growth in secondary educational attendance, during 1985-1995 in Colombia, which nonetheless, has not been analogous to that of the quality of education, rather, se...
Tipo: LAC Human & Social Development Group Paper SeriesInforme#: 20934Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 1998Autor:
Pineros Jimenez,Luis Jaime ;
Rodriguez,Alberto
This note focuses on export processing zones as potential, useful tools in export promotion, and, outlines the general features, and objectives of these zones, highlighting country experiences, and of...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 21234Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 1998Autor:
Madani,Dorsati H.
This report is a summary of country studies in Latin America and the Caribbean, addressing the use of market-based instruments (MBIs) and command-and-control (CAC) measures for environmental managemen...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: WDP381Fecha: 30 de noviembre de 1998Autor:
Huber,Richard M. ;
Ruitenbeek,Herman Jack ;
Seroa da Motta,Ronaldo
This study began as an update of promising practices in teacher education programs that have been particularly successful in enhancing student learning in their own context. Along the way of undertaki...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 19009Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 1998Autor:
Craig, Helen J. ;
Kraft, Richard J. ;
du Plessis, Jo
Indigenous people make up a large and distinct portion of Latin America's population. While the incidence of poverty is high in Latin America, it is particularly severe and deep among the indigenous p...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 13551Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 1998Autor:
Psacharopoulos,George ;
Patrinos,Harry Anthony
This issue focuses on the experience of private sector involvement in Global Environment Facility (GEF) projects from Batangas Bay in the Philippines. The Batangas Bay Demonstration Project was part o...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 21208Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 1998Autor:
Harstad, Jarle [editor]
The report explores the current, unquestioned time schedules in educational learning in the Latin America, and the Caribbean region, - a model instituted as of the 1800s, following European practices ...
Tipo: LAC Human & Social Development Group Paper SeriesInforme#: 18837Fecha: 31 de octubre de 1998Autor:
Martinic, Sergio
The study determines how local level institutions - both Government and civil society - impact local development, particularly the manner by which these institutions contribute to household, and commu...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 22808Fecha: 31 de octubre de 1998Autor:
Ascarrunz, Beatriz ;
Balboa, Alfredo ;
Cordova, Julio ;
Gonzales, Griselda ;
Sandoval,Godofredo ;
Velasques, Gloria
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has prepared this manual on public consultation on information disclosure. Its primary function is to provide good practice guidance to private sector proje...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 19358Fecha: 31 de octubre de 1998Autor:
Miller, Shawn ;
Sequeira,Debra Tina
Following earlier initiatives by the World Bank Institute, on the subject of national systems to evaluate academic achievement, the report endorses previous recommendations for the Latin America, and ...
Tipo: LAC Human & Social Development Group Paper SeriesInforme#: 18836Fecha: 31 de octubre de 1998Autor:
Rojas C., Carlos ;
Esquivel, Juan Manuel
The model presented in this paper presents a view of the relevance of the higher education in the 21st century that begins from the changes that are taking place in the production of knowledge. The ma...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 19717Fecha: 31 de octubre de 1998Autor:
GIBBONS, MICHAEL
This report summarizes the discussions from the "Forum on Poverty, Inequality, and Vulnerability," organized in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 19-20, 1998, by the World Bank's Latin America and t...
Tipo: Departmental Working PaperInforme#: 19682Fecha: 20 de octubre de 1998
The World Bank has helped Albania, Georgia, and Latvia measure corruption and design strategies to combat it and improve governance. This note explains how empirical surveys can inform and transform t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 18572Fecha: 1 de octubre de 1998Autor:
Kaufmann, Daniel ;
Pradhan, Sanjay ;
Ryterman, Randi
This paper reviews the current status of national policies for quality assurance. It offers a brief assessment of recent trends and identifies some areas of emerging consensus as well as issues still ...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 21199Fecha: 1 de octubre de 1998Autor:
El-Khawas,Elaine ;
Depietro-Jurand,Robin A. ;
Holm-Nielsen,Lauritz B.
The most important change in the educational sector begun during the decade of the eighties and intensified during the nineties is the growth of global competition. Many states have concentrated their...
Tipo: LAC Human & Social Development Group Paper SeriesInforme#: 18833Fecha: 30 de septiembre de 1998Autor:
Delannoy,Francoise
Bank strategy for smaller enterprises has generally been to ease the scarcity of term finance by providing funds and improving the banking system's ability to lend to them. Thought to be labor-intensi...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22967Fecha: 30 de septiembre de 1998Autor:
Buckley, Robert ;
Rodriguez, Edgard ;
Galenson, Alic
Both the recurrent nature of disaster and the availability of technological, social, and organizational remedies make disaster relief an area where mitigation--policies and actions that are intended t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22968Fecha: 30 de septiembre de 1998Autor:
Parker,Ronald S. ;
Kreimer,Alcira I.
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