Documentos e informes
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April 2022 Update to the Global Database of Shared Prosperity : What’s New (Inglés)
The April 2022 update introduces the 9th edition of the Global Database of Shared Prosperity. Shared prosperity, defined as the growth in household per capita income or consumption of the poorest 40 percent...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 171154 Fecha del documento: 30 de abril de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Sabatino Gonzalez,Carlos Gerardo,Diaz-Bonilla,Carolina
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Where is the Money Coming From? : Ten Stylized Facts on Financing Social Protection Responses to COVID-19 (Inglés)
The unprecedented and ongoing scale-up of social protection responses to the COVID-19 pandemic dwarf the response to the Great Recession. But how are countries financing such scale-up efforts? This note...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 154466 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2020 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Almenfi,Mohamed Bubaker Alsafi,Breton,Melvin,Dale,Pamela,Gentilini,Ugo,Pick,Alexendar,Richardson,Dominic
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Data for Policy (D4P) Initiative (Inglés)
The Data for Policy (D4P) initiative (D4P) is a new World Bank engagement to improve National Statistical Systems (NSS) by enhancing the availability, timeliness, quality, and relevance of key data for...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 149171 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2020 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Dabalen,Andrew L.,Kastelic,Kristen Himelein,Rodriguez Castelan,Carlos
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Technology transfer (Inglés)
This note provides guidance to governments and investors on how best to support the development and transfer of technologies to local smallholders and communities. New technology can help boost production...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 124298 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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A new measure of rural access to transport : using GIS data to inform decisions and attainment of the SDGs (Inglés)
In rural areas of the developing world, where the majority of the poor live, good transport connectivity through road infrastructure and transport services is an essential part of the enabling environment...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 102767 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Iimi,Atsushi,Diehl,Adam Stone
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Harnessing emotional connections to improve financial decisions : evaluating the impact of financial education through mainstream media : extended summary (Inglés)
Financial education is important, yet there is a considerable knowledge gap in how best to deliver it. The literature on careful evaluations of financial literacy is small but growing, and has moved away...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 78242 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Berg,Gunhild,Zia,Bilal Husnain
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Performance, monitoring, and evaluation in China (Inglés)
Amidst all the hoopla about China's rise, it is useful to remember that China is a developing country whose transition to a market economy is not yet complete, with institution building still underway...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 76065 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Wong,Christine P.
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Pakistan - Healing battagram district : revitalization of primary health care in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (Inglés)
The project objective was to: i) rapidly revitalize PHC services so as to enable widespread delivery of a standard package of services; and ii) help strengthen the capacity of district management to coordinate...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 125747 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Lowering the cost of payments and money transfers in UEMOA (Inglés)
This policy note had two principal objectives: the first is to identify opportunities for and barriers to reducing the cost of money transfers between and within West African Economic and Monetary Union...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 63811 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 2011 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Musuku,Thilasoni Benjamin,Malaguti,Maria Chiara,Mason,Andrew Mcewen,Pereira, Ceu
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Template for assessing the governance of public water supply and sanitation service providers (Inglés)
This note proposes a template for assessing the governance of urban water supply and sanitation (WSS) service providers and its impact of the quality of service and performance of operations. The template...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 52912 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2010 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Locussol,Alain R.,Van Ginneken,Meike
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Private activity in water supply declined in 2008 (Inglés)
In 2008 nine low- or middle-income countries implemented at least 65 water projects with private participation, involving investment of more than US$3.1 billion, according to just-released data from the...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 51765 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2009 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Bradley,Ada Karina Izaguirre,Perard,Edouard
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Output-based aid in Armenia : connecting poor urban households to gas service (Inglés)
Gas-based heating offers a clean, efficient, low-cost heating solution for poor urban households in Armenia, a country with severe winters. But many low-income households cannot afford the cost of connecting...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 47636 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2009 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Balabanyan,Ani,Kochnakyan,Artur
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Improving water security for sustaining livelihoods and growth in Tanzania (Inglés)
The Tanzania Water Resources Assistance Strategy (TWRAS) illustrates that food security, energy security, environmental security, health security, industrial security, and social and economic security...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 47311 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2009 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Hirji, Rafik , Davis, Richard , Brown, Francis A
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Returning young Mexican farmers to the land (Inglés)
This note recounts that by the early 2000s, the Government of Mexico and the Secretariat of Agrarian Reform, in particular, had come to see investment in "the more dynamic young segment of the population...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 40400 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2007 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Dupont De Dinechin,Frederic,Larson,Gunnar
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The dynamics of conflict, development assistance and peace-building: Sri Lanka 2000-05 (Inglés)
Significant transformations in the socio-political and economic landscape of Sri Lanka in recent years encouraged five development partners-World Bank, Asia Foundation, and the governments of the United...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 35228 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Un donante multilateral supera las presiones de desembolso: Historia de microfinanciamiento en el Banco do Nordeste de Brasil (Español)
El programa de microfinanciamiento CrediAmigo en Brasil, administrado por el Banco do Nordeste (BN) muestra cómo una institución financiera internacional como el Banco Mundial puede ser un catalizador...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 33453 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 2002 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Peck Christen, Robert,Schonberger,Steven N.
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A Multilateral donor triumphs over disbursement pressure : the story of microfinance at Banco do Nordeste in Brazil (Árabe)
The CrediAmigo microfinance program in Brazil, managed by the Banco do Nordeste (BN) shows how an international financial institution like the World Bank can be a useful catalyst in the development of...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 33453 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2001 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Peck Christen, Robert,Schonberger,Steven N.
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A Multilateral donor triumphs over disbursement pressure : the story of microfinance at Banco do Nordeste in Brazil (Inglés)
The CrediAmigo microfinance program in Brazil, managed by the Banco do Nordeste (BN) shows how an international financial institution like the World Bank can be a useful catalyst in the development of...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 33453 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2001 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Peck Christen, Robert,Schonberger,Steven N.
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Seeds of life : women and agricultural biodiversity in Africa (Inglés)
One of the down-sides of worldwide agricultural development, has been the replacement of native plant species by marketable crops, accompanied by a reduction in the diversity of the seed stock. This accounts...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 23435 Fecha del documento: 31 de agosto de 2000 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Easton, Peter,Ronald, Margaret
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Seeds of life : women and agricultural biodiversity in Africa : Les femmes et la biodiversite vegetale en Afrique (Francés)
One of the down-sides of worldwide agricultural development, has been the replacement of native plant species by marketable crops, accompanied by a reduction in the diversity of the seed stock. This accounts...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 23435 Fecha del documento: 30 de agosto de 2000 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Easton, Peter,Ronald, Margaret