With more than half of its two million
inhabitants living in unplanned squatter settlements, the
Venezuelan capital of Caracas is faced with immense
challenge in delivering...
This news release, dated September 13,
2002, announces the World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn
met with a high-level Peruvian delegation led by President
Alejandro...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162558Date: September 13, 2002
This news release, dated August 29,
2002, announces the World Bank approved a United States
(U.S.) 25.7 million dollars (EUR 26 million) loan for the
Real Property Registration...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162103Date: August 29, 2002
This news release, dated August 29,
2002, announces the World Bank approved a 50 million dollars
loan to finance the construction and improvement of water
supply and...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162096Date: August 29, 2002
This news release, dated August 8, 2002,
announces the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors
approved the implementation of the Amazon Region Protected
Areas Project,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162339Date: August 8, 2002
This news release, dated August 6, 2002,
announces the World Bank approved a loan of 202.02 million
dollars to support Mexico’s efforts to promote sustainable
development,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162241Date: August 6, 2002
Without better policies and
institutions, social and environmental strains may derail
development progress, leading to higher poverty levels and a
decline in the quality...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 24711Date: August 1, 2002
This news release, dated July 16, 2002,
announces the World Bank approved a United States (U.S.)
108.2 million dollars credit to support a project which will
help poor...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162233Date: July 16, 2002
This news release, dated July 11, 2002,
announces the World Bank approved a United States (U.S.) 27
million dollars credit to assist the government of Uganda to
better...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162097Date: July 11, 2002
In 1994 and 1995, a drought that reduced
Morocco's agricultural gross domestic product by 45
percent threatened to cause severe long-term damage. The
World Bank responded...
After years of political instability and
neglect, Ghana's economy laid in shambles in the
mid-1980s. The transport sector had deteriorated badly, and
the road network...
Over the course of the next 2-3 years, 2
million people in 32 provinces and 671 communes, a third of
which are designated as the countrys poorest communities,
in Vietnam...
The Danang sanitation subproject
financed micro credit program provides small loans of
Vietnamese dong (VND) 2 million (around United States (U.S.)
$150 over a 2-year...
With a yearly deforestation rate
reaching 10 percent in some parts, the semi-arid savannas of
southern Africa are speedily losing their trees to farming,
threatening...
This Results Profiles focuses on the
Judicial Reform Project for Ecuador. The project aims at
increasing efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency in
judicial process...
Over the years, high buildups of toxic
salts in the soil had caused declining productivity of food
grains, especially rice and wheat, in Uttar Pradesh,
India's largest...
Afro-Colombians make up 90 percent of
the population in the rainforest-covered Chocó region along
Colombia's Pacific coast. In 1994, the World Bank
approved a Natural...
This paper sets out work which has been
implemented in Viet Nam, to assist the Government identify a
core set of development goals, through analytical work
carried out...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 26999Date: June 30, 2002
In order to integrate the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) for poverty reduction in Viet Nam,
with the links to ensure environmental sustainability, the
report first...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 27009Date: June 30, 2002
This news release, dated June 25, 2002,
announces the World Bank approved a United States (U.S.) 105
million dollars loan for the China Hubei Hydropower
Development...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162115Date: June 25, 2002
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