Millions of households in the developing world still lack access to safe and reliable energy-and pay high prices for poor-quality substitutes. Addressing their needs poses a major challenge for develo...
Tipo: Annual ReportInforme#: 20824Fecha: 1 de enero de 2000Autor:
Brook, Penelope J. ;
Smith, Suzanne [editors]
This issue of CIVIS profiles the Swaziland Urban Development Project (SUDP). In response to increasing urbanization, the Government of Swaziland in the early 1990s made urban sector development and po...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 32984Fecha: 1 de enero de 2000
In the 1990s Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) began to resurface from the lost decade of the 1980s after a sustained reform effort by the countries to enhance the role of market forces and increa...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 20655Fecha: 1 de enero de 2000Autor:
De Ferranti, David ;
Perry, Guillermo E. ;
Gill, Indermit S. ;
Serven, Luis ;
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. ;
Ilahi, Nadeem ;
Maloney, William F. ;
Rama, Martin G.
In recognition of the fundamental importance of an appropriate regulatory environment to accelerate connectivity, and access to information services, this handbook provides a practical reference sourc...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 24742Fecha: 1 de enero de 2000Autor:
Intven, Hank [editor] ;
Oliver, Jeremy ;
Sepulveda, Edgardo
This Note on public management of pension funds concludes that publicly-managed pension reserves are often used to finance non-pension policy. Public pension fund managers tend to invest based on obje...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33385Fecha: 1 de enero de 2000
The value of funded pensions can depend critically on the funds' investment performance. To try and protect people's savings, governments often regulate pension funds strictly, particularly when contr...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 33383Fecha: 1 de enero de 2000
This book is the first in a three-part series, about the common patterns that emerged from the poor people's experiences in many different places. Chapter 1 sets out the conceptual framework and metho...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 20246Fecha: 1 de enero de 2000Autor:
Naraya, Deepa ;
Patel, Raj ;
Schafft, Kai ;
Rademacher
The World Bank has, over the past two years, revisited its rural development strategy and in turn developed a new one, through a renewed commitment to sound development in the rural sector, and seeks ...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 18583Fecha: 1 de enero de 2000Autor:
Lutz, Ernst ;
Binswanger, Hans P. ;
Hazell, Peter B. ;
Mccalla, Alexander F.
The results of World Bank operations have continued to improve steadily. More than three-quarters of development projects supported by the Bank have achieved satisfactory outcomes, including 7 percent...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22969Fecha: 31 de diciembre de 1999Autor:
Buckley, Robert M.
If development is to become sustainable, human behavior must change. Corporations, consumers, and public agencies all need to switch away from activities that degrade the environment and invest instea...
Tipo: Departmental Working PaperInforme#: 21652Fecha: 31 de diciembre de 1999
The study reviews current gender issues in Argentina, specifically, because of the Bank's interest in identifying: gender gap implications for the country's economic, and social development; how do in...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 20911Fecha: 31 de diciembre de 1999Autor:
Correia, Maria C.
The World Bank has usually "done the right thing" in the Zimbabwe health sector, but has not always "done things right," according to a recent Operations Evaluations (OED) study. Bank policy advice an...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22970Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 1999Autor:
Johnston, Timothy A.
This publication, Enlaces is another contribution to the Bank's Voices of the Poor series of publications. An unprecedented effort to gather views, experiences and aspirations of more than 60,000 poor...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 24984Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 1999Autor:
Werbrouck, Pierre
This paper outlines a method for estimating the interest rate that an microfinance institution (MFI) will need to realize on its loans, if it wants to fund its growth primarily with commercial funds a...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 18656Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 1999Autor:
Rosenberg, Richard
Any delinquency or recovery percentage is a ratio-the result of dividing some numerator on the top of the fraction by some denominator on the bottom. Unless we know exactly what goes into the numerato...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 33460Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 1999Autor:
Christen, Robert P. ;
Rosenberg, Richard
For almost 50 years judges, lawyers, and policymakers in the United States have experimented with ways to speed up the processing of civil and criminal cases. Several lessons have emerged from this ef...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 21584Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 1999Autor:
Messick, Richard ;
Shuker, Nan ;
Pace, Nicholas ;
Ostr
The GEF recently completed an Interim Assessment of Biodiversity Enabling Activities, which help recipient countries develop national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs) as required by A...
Tipo: NewsletterInforme#: 26341Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 1999Autor:
Harstad, Jarle
Micro-finance institutions (MFIs) increasingly see financial viability as a core element of their business strategy. To implement this strategy, MFI managers must analyze their financial statements fo...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Informe#: 18659Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 1999Autor:
Helms, Brigit S.
This note, based on a recent study by the Operations Evaluation Department, analyzes the effectiveness of the training and visit (T&V) system of agricultural extension service management in Kenya, thr...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 23002Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 1999Autor:
Gautam, Madhur
Why do we need a world bank? What is the role of the World Bank? What are the World Bank programs? Where does the World Bank get its money? Where does the money go? Who runs the World Bank? The public...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 21168Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 1999
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