This study points out that hydroelectric plants will continue to play a prominent role in the Brazilian electric matrix. A significant portion of the potential hydroelectric plants of the country is l...
Tipo: Country Environmental Analysis (CEA)Relatorio#: 40995Data: 28 de março de 2008
This study points out that hydroelectric plants will continue to play a prominent role in the Brazilian electric matrix. A significant portion of the potential hydroelectric plants of the country is l...
Tipo: Country Environmental Analysis (CEA)Relatorio#: 40995Data: 28 de março de 2008
Addressing climate change is central to the development and poverty reduction agenda. In its fourth assessment (2007), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes clear that warming of ...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 76429Data: 21 de março de 2008
Addressing climate change is central to the development and poverty reduction agenda. In its fourth assessment (2007), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes clear that warming of ...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 76429Data: 21 de março de 2008
Available evidence indicates that there was a significant decline in smoking in Brazil between 1989 and 2006. About two decades ago, the government launched a tobacco control program, with a marked ac...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 44689Data: 1 de março de 2008Autor:
Iglesias,Roberto Magno ;
Jha,Prabhat K. ;
Pinto,Marcia ;
Cilia De Mira Godinho,Maria Joana ;
Costa e Silva, Vera Luiza da
This report stresses that non-communicable diseases (NCD) account for a significant and growing share of the burden of disease of Brazil. It offers an overview of the changing face of DNT in Brazil, i...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 44688Data: 1 de março de 2008Autor:
Danel,Isabella Anna ;
Kurowski,Christoph ;
Saxenian,Helen
Hospitals are at the center of the health care universe in Brazil. When ill, many Brazilians go straight to the hospital for want of a family doctor or primary care network. Hospitals are a critical p...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 44690Data: 1 de março de 2008Autor:
Couttolenc,Bernard F. ;
La Forgia, Gerard M.
The World Bank is carrying out a program of Analytic and Advisory Activities (the Labor AAA) focused on the interface between social protection programs and labor supply and productivity. This focus r...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 44692Data: 1 de março de 2008Autor:
Robalino,David A. ;
Leroy De La Briere,Benedicte ;
Lindert,Kathy A.
Building on two decades of education reform, Brazil's Ministry of Education (MEC) implemented a key instrument for measuring education quality in 2005, when it first administered Prova Brasil, a natio...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 44691Data: 1 de março de 2008Autor:
Amorim,Erica Pereira ;
Parandekar,Suhas D. ;
Welsh,Andrea
The general conditions set forth certain terms and conditions generally applicable to the loan agreement and to any other legal agreement. They apply to the extent the legal agreement so provides. If ...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 95489Data: 12 de fevereiro de 2008
The cities alliance was created in 1999 as a global coalition of cities and their development partners committed to scaling up successful approaches to urban poverty reduction. By promoting the positi...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 47027Data: 1 de fevereiro de 2008Autor:
Jose Kiel,Mariana Kara
This second volume of the National Assessment of Educational Achievement series describes addresses the design of two types of data collection instruments: student achievement tests and background que...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 45411Data: 1 de janeiro de 2008Autor:
Anderson, Prue ;
Greaney, Vincent [editor] ;
Kellaghan, Thomas [editor] ;
Morgan, George
Doing Business 2008, the fifth report in the series, found that large emerging markets, such as China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Turkey, and Vietnam, were reforming fast. The report also found that mor...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 41938Data: 1 de janeiro de 2008
During fiscal year 2008, the Bank Group committed 38.2 billion dollars in loans, grants, equity investments and guarantees to its members and to private businesses in member countries, an increase of ...
Tipo: World Bank Annual ReportRelatorio#: 47090Data: 1 de janeiro de 2008
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) annual report continues an approach pioneered last year, combining information on the investments and advisory services, sustainability, development effecti...
Tipo: World Bank Annual ReportRelatorio#: 46277Data: 1 de janeiro de 2008
This report describes opportunities for developing, engaging, and supporting a well managed and effectively regulated private sector to improve the region's health. Health care in most of Sub-Saharan ...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 44143Data: 1 de janeiro de 2008
The design of many development policies continues to assume wrongly that farmers and rural workers are men. The important role of women in agriculture in many parts of the world calls for urgent atten...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 41385Data: 1 de janeiro de 2008
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) family business governance handbook is a concise and practical description of essential family business governance components and suggested approaches to re...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 45077Data: 1 de janeiro de 2008Autor:
Abouzaid,Sanaa
This evaluation assesses the Bank group's support for environmental sustainability in both the public and private sectors over the past 15 years. It identifies several crucial constraints that need to...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 44948Data: 1 de janeiro de 2008
This report concerns about policy briefing and outlines the main findings and policy options associated with the analysis of public spending in terms of equity and allocative efficiency. This Public E...
Tipo: Public Expenditure ReviewRelatorio#: 39710Data: 20 de dezembro de 2007
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