Turning Bureaucrats into Warriors - Preparing and Implementing Multi-sector HIV/AIDS Programs in Africa is a Generic Operations Manual (GOM) that has been prepared to provide practical, timely, operat...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 34347Data: 1 de janeiro de 2004Autor:
Ayvalikli,Didem ;
Brown,Jonathan C. ;
Mohammad,Nadeem
HIV/AIDS undermines the social and economic fabrics of societies. Beyond the human tragedies, HIV/AIDS degrades the health and education of a nation's citizenry. Current and future workforces are at a...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 33103Data: 1 de janeiro de 2004Autor:
Ashbourne,Elizabeth J. ;
Taylor, Kate ;
Hope,Caroline Armistead
Ensuring that children are healthy and able to learn is an essential component of an effective education system. Good health increases enrollment and reduces absenteeism, and brings more of the poores...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 23025Data: 1 de janeiro de 2004
This Country Assistance Strategy Progress Report for Brazil assesses progress at mid-term, and steers the Brazil-Bank Group partnership toward ensuring the sustainability of recent gains. In particula...
Tipo: CAS Progress ReportRelatorio#: 36116Data: 9 de dezembro de 2003
Brazil was the fastest growing country in the world between 1930 and 1995, with an average annual growth rate of 6.1 percent. By 2000, Brazil's per-capita income stood at R$6,500. While RN's per capit...
Tipo: Country Economic MemorandumRelatorio#: 24891Data: 5 de dezembro de 2003
The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Debt Initiative, designed to relieve the high external debt burdens of some of the poorest nations, was put in place by the World Bank and the IMF in 1996; a...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 27638Data: 1 de dezembro de 2003
This report discusses the process and methodology involved in developing a practicable method for undertaking a comparative analysis of transport sector and poverty reduction strategies. The report n...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Relatorio#: 29853Data: 1 de dezembro de 2003Autor:
Braithwaite,Mary
While not a new phenomenon in most of Latin America, crime and violence have increased dramatically in recent decades and are now recognized as a serious economic and social problem, particularly in t...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 35133Data: 1 de novembro de 2003Autor:
Staco, Veronique [researcher] ;
Van Bronkhorst, Bernice [assembler]
Although not a new phenomenon in most of Latin America, crime and violence have increased dramatically in recent decades, and are now recognized as a serious economic and social problem, particularly ...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 32064Data: 1 de novembro de 2003
This Address to the Board of Governors in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in September 2003 includes the sections: the region and the world, and a time for action. The region and the world: The developin...
Tipo: President's SpeechRelatorio#: 36482Data: 23 de setembro de 2003Autor:
Wolfensohn,James D.
HIV/AIDS is a global epidemic, but the greatest opportunity for addressing it rests at the local level. This realization has encouraged a shift towards supporting local responses to HIV/AIDS, largely ...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 27095Data: 1 de setembro de 2003
The worldwide concern with deforestation of Brazilian Amazonia is motivated not only by the irreversible loss of this natural wealth, but also by the perception that it is a destructive process in whi...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 27715Data: 1 de julho de 2003Autor:
Margulis,Sergio
The report - the fourth in a series - consolidates the work developed in the last eighteen months by the Bank's water resources and sanitation team, and discusses some of the impending challenges with...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 26379Data: 30 de junho de 2003Autor:
Azevedo,Luiz Gabriel ;
Baltar,Alexandre Moreira ;
Gambrill,Martin P. ;
Mejia,Abel ;
Triche,Thelma A.
Environmental sustainability has become increasingly central to the World Bank's mission over the past several decades, particularly after the 1987 Brundtland report articulating the principles of sus...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 44601Data: 1 de junho de 2003Autor:
Redwood,John
This Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE) reviews key aspects of the Bank's program in Brazil, based on the central objective of the Bank's assistance to Brazil in the 1990s and early 2000: poverty all...
Tipo: IEG EvaluationRelatorio#: 27629Data: 12 de maio de 2003
Timor-Leste became the first new nation of this millennium on May 20, 2002 following a quarter century of occupation and conflict. The country experienced a fundamental social and economic upheaval af...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 41296Data: 1 de maio de 2003
The implementation of a real time gross settlement (RTGS) mechanism for settling operations in a systemically important payments system contributes on a substantial way to the financial stability and ...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 45225Data: 1 de maio de 2003Autor:
Bernal R, Joaquin ;
Merlano G, Carolina
The report illustrates the dramatic situation of water resources in the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region(SPMR): the region has extremely low disposable water resources per person, comparable to the dries...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 26371Data: 30 de abril de 2003Autor:
Porto,Monica Ferreira Do Amaral
Water resources management has gone through a global modernization process, intensified during the last ten years, particularly following discussions, and launching of international forums, and princi...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 26369Data: 30 de abril de 2003Autor:
Jose, Francisco ;
Lobato Da Costa,Francisco Jose
There is an increasing consensus in Brazil on the importance of water use rights, as an instrument critical to the adequate implementation of the National Policy on Water Resources. International expe...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 26370Data: 30 de abril de 2003Autor:
Azevedo,Luiz Gabriel ;
Baltar,Alexandre Moreira ;
Porto,Rubem La Laina ;
Rego,Manuel Felipe
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