Documentos e informes
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Social safety nets respond to crisis (Inglés)
For many of the people in the world's poorest countries, staying healthy, having enough food, and finding work are daunting challenges that are often exacerbated by food price shocks, natural disasters...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 92642 Fecha del documento: 12 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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World Bank support to education : learning for all, skills for jobs (Inglés)
Education is fundamental to development and growth. From encouraging higher enrolment through to training teachers or bringing more girls into schools for the first time, the World Bank Group has been...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 92643 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Creating more and better jobs through stronger labor markets : targeting investment toward growth opportunities, and fostering better work conditions (Inglés)
With World Bank Group lending, technical assistance, and economic sector work, countries are protecting workers and investing in programs that help promote job creation through a range of initiatives...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 92638 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Getting to equal : promoting gender equality through human development (Inglés)
This IBRD Results brief focuses on gender in education, health, and social protection and labor. Gender equality leads to better human development outcomes. This key finding of the "World Development Report...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 91731 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Meeting the challenge : the World Bank and HIV/AIDS (Inglés)
The World Bank was a leader in global HIV/AIDS financing in the early days of the emergency, and since 1989 has provided US$4.6 billion for HIV-AIDS-related activities. Bank activities in particular through...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 70033 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Growing innovation : supporting new technologies and entrepreneurs through infoDev's network of specialized business incubators (Inglés)
InfoDev, a global partnership program within the financial and private sector development network of the World Bank Group, facilitates a network of approximately 400 business incubators in more than 100...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 91664 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Saving lives, supporting healthy development through results-based financing (Inglés)
For many of the people in the world’s poorest countries, staying healthy, having enough food, and finding work are daunting challenges that are often exacerbated by food price shocks, natural disasters...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 91673 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Albania - Maintaining growth, while pursuing reforms (Inglés)
Albania has made great strides reintegrating with the international and European communities and is an important contributor to regional stability in the Balkans. Over the past decade, Albania has been...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 91829 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Bosnia and Herzegovina - From post-conflict reconstruction to EU integration (Inglés)
The World Bank has played a lead role in restoring infrastructure and basic services to prewar levels in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) and substantial progress has been made in overall economic and social...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 91818 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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The global food crisis : a quick response, but long-term solutions - Bank efforts to offset price shocks reach nearly 40 million people in 47 countries (Inglés)
The World Bank responded to the food price crisis of early 2008 through the global food crisis response program (GFRP), which mixes fast-track funding from the International Bank for Reconstruction and...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 92644 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Discovering what works in education : the informed policy making through impact evaluations (Inglés)
The World Bank has systematically been using rigorous impact evaluations in Bank-funded education projects around the world to help generate knowledge about how to improve results in education since 2006...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 91661 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Setting international standards for gender equality in the private sector : the gender equity model (Inglés)
The World Bank's gender equity model (GEM) aims to promote gender equity in the private sector by building on a series of good practices in four key areas: recruitment, career development, family-work...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 91888 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Armenia - Laying the foundations for sustainable development (Inglés)
Armenia's economy has undergone a profound transformation since independence in the early 1990s. Today, it is market oriented and highly receptive to trade, capital, and technological innovation. From...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 91687 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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The World Bank and gender (Inglés)
In September 2011, the World Bank launched the World Development Report (WDR) 2012: gender equality and development the first of the series to focus on gender. WDR 2012 highlighted impressive progress...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 91831 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Scaling up school feeding : keeping children in school while improving their learning and health (Inglés)
School feeding programs are targeted social safety nets that provide both educational and health benefits to the most vulnerable children, thereby increasing enrollment rates, reducing absenteeism, and...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 91827 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Helping to better manage the world's oceans : the World Bank and the drive for ‘blue growth' (Inglés)
A healthy ocean is a valuable natural asset that, if maintained and nurtured, can provide ‘ecosystem services’ that contribute to economic expansion, or ‘blue growth’, in developing coastal and island...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 92645 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Turkey - Sustained and equitable growth for continued economic success (Inglés)
Turkey is one of the greatest success stories of the global economy based on its rapid economic growth and development over the last decade. Extreme poverty has been eliminated; the millennium development...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 91828 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Moldova - Promoting sustainable growth and competitiveness (Inglés)
Facing the need for a sustainable growth strategy, Moldova has been working with the International Development Association (IDA) to address its main development challenges through increased economic competitiveness...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 91773 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Fighting dirty money and illicit flows to reduce poverty : transparent financial systems and robust mechanisms for asset recovery (Inglés)
The Bank contributes to the fight against corruption and other illicit flows through the stolen asset recovery (StAR) initiative and financial market integrity (FMI) unit, which promotes the integrity...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 91665 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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FYR Macedonia - Supporting EU accession through sustainable and inclusive economic growth (Inglés)
The World Bank Group has worked closely with its development partners to help the Former Yugoslav Republic (FYR) of Macedonia travel the road from conflict in 2001 to reaching the threshold of joining...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 91826 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed