This paper gives an account of the environmental issues faced by the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean region, and, illustrates the Bank's work through strategies, and projects that countri...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 24727Data: 30 de junho de 1992
This is the text of an address to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development given by Lewis T. Preston, President of the World Bank Group, Rio de Janeiro, June 1992.
Tipo: President's SpeechRelatorio#: 10728Data: 4 de junho de 1992Autor:
Preston,Lewis T.
This speech by Lewis T. Preston, President of the World Bank, was given at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on June 4, 1992. He discussed poverty ...
Tipo: President's SpeechRelatorio#: 35765Data: 4 de junho de 1992Autor:
Preston,Lewis T.
This report is the fourteenth in an annual series assessing major development issues. This report synthesizes and interprets the lessons of more than forty years of development experience. Together wi...
Tipo: World Development ReportRelatorio#: 9696Data: 1 de setembro de 1991Autor:
World Bank
This report is the thirteenth in the annual series addressing major development issues. This report is about the poor. It is thus about the fundamental issue in economic development the eradication of...
Tipo: World Development ReportRelatorio#: PUB8507Data: 1 de setembro de 1990Autor:
Ahmad,S. Ehtisham-Uddin ;
Ayres, Robert L. ;
Fields,Gary S. ;
Ribe,Helena G. ;
Squire,Lyn ;
Suridberg, Mark ;
Van De Walle,Dominique ;
Van Der Gaag,Jacques ;
Walton,Michael
The World Bank currently supports major Brazilian programs designed to improve maternal and child health and reduce infectious diseases and other basic health problems. This study focuses on the probl...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: PUB7807Data: 31 de agosto de 1990
This paper on investment in education and training is the first in a series that the World Bank is preparing to stimulate discussion of sectoral policies for Africa in the 1990s and beyond. It has thr...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 9777Data: 1 de julho de 1990
For 40 years the World Bank has been assisting Brazil in its development efforts. In the 1950s and 1960s most of the Bank's loans were for energy, transport, and heavy industry, helping to undergird a...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 10007Data: 28 de fevereiro de 1990Autor:
Choksi,Armeane M.
Despite abundant natural resources, and the rapid development of an enclave oil sector, the Angolan economy has been characterized by enormous distortions and poor output performance since independenc...
Tipo: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportRelatorio#: 7283Data: 29 de agosto de 1989
Angola's ability to export annually 12-14 million tons of crude oil has sustained the economy over the past dozen years of civil war. However, the war has significantly affected the energy sector, and...
Tipo: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportRelatorio#: 7408Data: 31 de maio de 1989
Mozambique is relatively well endowed with energy resources and its long run economic prospects are good once peaceful conditions are restored to the country. However, the poor conditions of energy su...
Tipo: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportRelatorio#: 6128Data: 31 de janeiro de 1987
This speech by A.W. Clausen, President of the World Bank and International Finance Corporation, was given to the Board of Governors during the Annual Meetings on October 8, 1985 in Seoul, Korea. In hi...
Tipo: President's SpeechRelatorio#: 55815Data: 8 de outubro de 1985Autor:
Clausen,A. W.
These remarks were delivered by A.W. Clausen, the President of the World Bank and International Finance Corporation, before the Board of Governors during the Annual Meetings in Washington, D.C. on Sep...
Tipo: President's SpeechRelatorio#: 55812Data: 24 de setembro de 1984Autor:
Clausen,A. W.
The consumption of energy in Guinea-Bissau is characterized by a total reliance on imported petroleum fuels for transport, industry and household lighting needs and on wood fuels for almost all househ...
Tipo: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportRelatorio#: 5083Data: 31 de agosto de 1984
The energy situation of Cape Verde is characterized by a total reliance on imported petroleum fuels for meeting the needs of transport, industry, and a third of the households, and by the gradual dest...
Tipo: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportRelatorio#: 5073Data: 31 de agosto de 1984
This review of Brazil's trade policy focuses on the manufacturing industry and its impact on industrial efficiency and manufactured export growth. It includes discussion of the Brazilian experience wi...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: PUB3766Data: 31 de agosto de 1983
The great majority of persons in rural areas of the developing world do not have access to a safe and convenient source of water, and where this is available, acceptable sewage disposal facilities are...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 10085Data: 1 de março de 1983Autor:
Saunders,Robert J. ;
Warford,Jeremy James
Since independence, the Government has committed itself to centrally planning economic development and has tried to allocate priority to agriculture as the main force for subsequent industrial growth....
Tipo: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportRelatorio#: 3529Data: 31 de março de 1982
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