Child labor is a global issue. An estimated 250 million children are working worldwide. This paper proposes that the World Bank take stronger action to help address the issue more proactively, and o...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 17418Fecha: 1 de enero de 1998Autor:
Fallon,Peter R. ;
Tzannatos,Panagiotis Zafiris
This GEF project performance report, presents the results of the project implementation review (PIR) , and draws on additional insights about the performance of GEF's programs from evaluations and oth...
Tipo: Annual ReportInforme#: 33307Fecha: 1 de enero de 1998
The well-intentioned objective of state-owned development finance institutions is too often subjected to political influence. Politicized mandates place undue emphasis on credit outflows over recovery...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 18606Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 1997Autor:
Mukherjee,Joyita ;
Malhotra,Mohini
Following the Summit of the Americas, held in December 1994, it was agreed among several nations in the Americas to develop and implement action plans to phase out lead additives in gasoline. This is ...
Tipo: ESMAP PaperInforme#: ESM200Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 1997
This report presents the evaluation of fifteen water and sanitation systems in three departments of Bolivia. The purpose of the evaluation is to contribute to the strengthening of the drinking water a...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 72038Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 1997
This essay, Linkages between municipalities and utilities: an experience in overcoming urban poverty, is the first of three essays in which the author recounts the successful policies and practices wh...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 38759Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 1997Autor:
Alfaro,Maria Raquel
What is the best way to support a micro-finance institution (MFI) that has a track record of extending quality financial services to significant numbers of poor people on a progressively financially s...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 18605Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 1997Autor:
Helms,Brigit S. ;
Malhotra,Mohini
The World Bank has used OptionFinder (OF), a computerized groupware technology, on the Gender and Institutional Innovation in Latin America (GINO) Program. The GINO Program is funded by the Governmen...
Tipo: Departmental Working PaperInforme#: 17892Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 1997Autor:
Correia, Maria ;
Simmons, Curt
Evaluation is an integral part of the World Bank's operational cycle. Evaluation assesses the results of the Bank's policies, programs, project, and processes, providing and objective basis for improv...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 31245Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 1997Autor:
Thumm,Ulrich R. W. ;
Weaving,Rachel V.
These standard bidding documents are prepared for use in contracts financed by the World Bank involving the supply, installation, and commissioning of specially engineered plant and equipment, such as...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: 17323Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 1997
During the past several decades, effective strategies have been developed for delivering affordable sanitation services to people living in urban areas in developing countries. The unhealthy conditio...
Tipo: Working PaperInforme#: 17435Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 1997Autor:
Wright,Albert M.
The Women's Village Banking (VB) Program of CARE Guatemala provides particularly interesting insights into some of the issues and challenges facing village banking programs around the world. Like many...
Tipo: ReportInforme#: 189141Fecha: 1 de octubre de 1997Autor:
World Bank
At its completion in 1992, the Mali Rural Water Supply Project was giving about 228,000 people-more than twice the original estimates- access to potable water in about 230 drought-prone rural villages...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27796Fecha: 1 de octubre de 1997Autor:
Parker, Ronald
Bank-supported project in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines in the 1980s developed natural resource management tools under very sensitive conditions. It achieved most of its objectives, cr...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27792Fecha: 1 de octubre de 1997Autor:
English,John C.
The World Bank has founded 25 transportation projects in Thailand since 1950. An OED Performance audit report, by Antti Talvitie, of five of these projects, approved between 1983 and 1990, found that ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27793Fecha: 1 de octubre de 1997Autor:
Talvitie,Antti P.
Five Bank-funded Urban Projects carried out in Brazil between 1979 and 1989 helped municipalities improve the provision of services and demonstrated that well-designed operations can lead to sustained...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27794Fecha: 1 de octubre de 1997Autor:
Kreimer,Alcira I.
These remarks were delivered by James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank Group, to the Board of Governors during the 1997 Annual Meetings in Hong Kong, China. Wolfensohn announced that this ye...
Tipo: President's SpeechInforme#: 22379Fecha: 23 de septiembre de 1997Autor:
Wolfensohn,James D.
Two very different project components sat uneasily together in a Bank-funded education project carried out in Jamaica from 1988-94. One component, prepared in 1985, was to pilot and evaluate options f...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27797Fecha: 23 de septiembre de 1997Autor:
Dove,Linda Ankrah
During fiscal year 1997, Croatia signed the ICSID Convention and Bosnia and Herzegovina ratified it. Including Bosnia and Herzegovina, there are now 30 European Countries that are ICSID members. Alto...
Tipo: World Bank Annual ReportInforme#: 75853Fecha: 2 de septiembre de 1997Autor:
World Bank
Latin America and the Caribbean is the most urbanized region in the developing world with a rapidly growing motor vehicle fleet. The number of urban areas with populations exceeding 1 million was 43 i...
Tipo: PublicationInforme#: WTP373Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 1997Autor:
Onursal,Bekir A. ;
Gautam,Surhid P.
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