Across Africa, crumbling infrastructure has held back business expansion and opportunities in international markets. Today, an entrepreneur in Central Africa pays more than three times what his Chines...
Tipo: President's SpeechRelatorio#: 48964Data: 19 de setembro de 2006Autor:
Wolfowitz,Paul
This report aims to present and reflect on the performance of the Paraná Biodiversity Project in its design, implementation and execution context, taking into account a retrospective analysis and fore...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 67780Data: 3 de setembro de 2006Autor:
Irving,Marta De Azevedo ;
Aragon Castillo,Carlos Enrique
This report is an abbreviated version of the 2006 International Finance Corporation's annual report. Its highlights include an operational reports summary, key financial indicators, a general overview...
Tipo: World Bank Annual ReportRelatorio#: 37398Data: 1 de setembro de 2006
This World Bank Annual Report for FY2006 notes that the past year saw both progress and continued challenges in the global fight against poverty and inequality. The Report discusses the following topi...
Tipo: World Bank Annual ReportRelatorio#: 37390Data: 1 de setembro de 2006
This Action Plan seeks to advance women's economic empowerment in the World Bank Group's client countries in order to promote shared growth and accelerate the implementation of Millennium Development ...
Tipo: Board ReportRelatorio#: 37008Data: 1 de setembro de 2006
This Foreign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS)/ Department for International Development (DFID) report is designed to improve understanding of the impact of tax policy and its administration on the b...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 40799Data: 1 de setembro de 2006
The WWF/World Bank Alliance for Forest Conservation & Sustainable Use (the Alliance, now known as the Global Forest Alliance) was created in 1997. The partners - WWF and the World Bank - set a target ...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 37775Data: 1 de julho de 2006
Most policy makers know that young people will greatly influence the future of their nations. Trying to help, they face dilemmas. When primary school completion has gone up so dramatically, thanks to ...
Tipo: World Development ReportRelatorio#: 44963Data: 1 de junho de 2006
Timor-Leste started as an independent country facing some very difficult challenges. The country was extremely short of skilled human resources and remains so. It faced the challenge of moving from th...
Tipo: Policy NoteRelatorio#: 37978Data: 1 de junho de 2006
This country assistance evaluation (CAE) for Angola will evaluate the relevance of the Bank's strategy in relation to the government's own strategy and the country's development constraints. For each...
Tipo: IEG EvaluationRelatorio#: 82230Data: 30 de maio de 2006
The purpose of these Guidelines is to set out the Bank's procedures for disbursement of loan proceeds for projects. Specifically, the Guidelines explain (a) the different methods used by the Bank to ...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 38575Data: 1 de maio de 2006
Over 529,000 women die annually from complications during pregnancy, childbirth, or the postpartum period. Nearly all of these deaths occur in developing countries, where fertility rates are higher an...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 53648Data: 1 de maio de 2006
International Finance Corporation (IFC) strives for positive development outcomes in the private sector projects it finances in emerging markets. An important component of positive development outcome...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 114009Data: 30 de abril de 2006
East Timor, which has adopted Portuguese as its official language, is now faced with the challenge of transforming the legal system inherited from Indonesia, into a new legal system based on the Portu...
Tipo: Policy NoteRelatorio#: 69607Data: 1 de abril de 2006Autor:
Drum,Wilfrid Bernard
Timor-Leste's National Development Plan (NDP) lays out a vision of a democratic country where state resources are managed efficiently, transparently, and free from corruption, and where the rule of la...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 37734Data: 1 de abril de 2006
The purpose of this study is to support the government of Mozambique and the World Bank health team in identifying key program and policy issues related to the planning, production, deployment, retent...
Tipo: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Relatorio#: 38696Data: 1 de fevereiro de 2006Autor:
Ferrinho, Paolo ;
Omar, Caroline
The primary goal of this Focus Note is to raise awareness in the microfinance sector of the issues associated with foreign exchange risk. First, it explains what exchange risk is. Second, it looks at ...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 35819Data: 1 de janeiro de 2006Autor:
Featherston,Scott Douglas ;
Littlefield,Elizabeth L. ;
Mwangi,Patricia
Doing Business investigates the scope and manner of regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. In this project quantitative indicators on business regulations and their en...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 36881Data: 1 de janeiro de 2006
This second fully revised edition presents the experiences of a set of leading companies in Latin America in reforming and improving how their firms are governed, and the results these changes have ac...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 49606Data: 1 de janeiro de 2006Autor:
Global Corporate Governance Forum ;
IFC ;
Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Develo
The purpose of local economic development (LED) is to build up the economic capacity of a local area in order to improve its economic future and the quality of life for all. It is a process by which p...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 33769Data: 1 de janeiro de 2006Autor:
Goga,Soraya ;
Murphy,Ian Fergus ;
Swinburn,Gwen
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