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
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
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]
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
Why is there still severe deprivation in Ceara after so many years of active development eforts? Have government programs been well-designed? What can be done differently in the future? How can a more...
Tipo: Poverty AssessmentRelatorio#: 24500Data: 10 de abril de 2003
Why is there still severe deprivation in Ceara after so many years of active development eforts? Have government programs been well-designed? What can be done differently in the future? How can a more...
Tipo: Poverty AssessmentRelatorio#: 24500Data: 10 de abril de 2003
Worms infect more than one third of the world's population, with the most intense infections in children and the poor. In the poorest countries, children are likely to be infected from the time they s...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 26363Data: 1 de março de 2003
new framework for poverty reduction was proposed by the staffs of the World Bank and IMF, and endorsed in 1999 by the Interim and Development Committees. The framework's key objective is to assist cou...
Tipo: IEG EvaluationRelatorio#: 30926Data: 28 de fevereiro de 2003
The paper highlights that the education of children, and youth merits the highest priority in a world afflicted by HIV/AIDS, specifically because a good basic education ranks among the most effective ...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 24718Data: 1 de janeiro de 2003
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