Documentos e informes
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Insights from practitioners' conference on urban infrastructure finance in a responsible fiscal framework: lessons from Brazil, China, India, Poland, and South Africa (Inglés)
Investment in urban infrastructure in developing countries is central to maintaining growth momentum and to ensuring the improvements in the quality of life that citizens expect as part of the development...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 35577 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Annez,Patricia Clarke,Buckley,Robert M.,Liu,Lili,Peterson,George E.
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Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS into urban/local government projects : a guidance note (Inglés)
Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS into the urban lending portfolio is essential if we accept HIV/AIDS as a development-rather than purely a health-issue. This is a new subject area for many Task Team Leaders (TTLS)...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 33807 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Kuper, Kate,Schuler, Nina [editor],Debomy,Sylvie Claudine
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Reaching the poor through sustainable partnerships : the Slum Sanitation Program in Mumbai, India (Inglés)
Despite all their efforts, the majority of cities in India have been unsuccessful in meeting the sanitation needs of the poor. Today, one of the main challenges they face in this sector is to develop innovative...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 44046 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2003 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Nitti,Rosanna,Sarkar,Shyamal
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Barrionet : an urban development Alternative (Inglés)
BarrioNet’s main objective is to interconnect electronically marginal communities that share common problems such as, lack of services, environmental degradation and violence by using information technology...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 95871 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2002 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Ayuda Urbana : creating communities on urban issues (Inglés)
Urban development policies in Central America and the Caribbean are critical for millions of people who live in hundreds of crowded cities. The quality of transportation, water and sanitation, social services...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 95869 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2002 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Chavez,Roberto,Kim,Ronald,Puspa,Erika,Ramirez-Corzo,Mariana
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Barrios El Cafe, La Mina and Hermanas Mirabal, in Santo Domingo : a best practice in urban environmental rehabilitation (Inglés)
The contiguous barrios of El Cafe (formerly a coffee plantation) La Mina (formerly a quarry) and Hermanas Mirabal (the Mirabal sisters were anti-Trujillo fighters in the ‘50s) are on the periphery of the...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 95870 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2002 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Chavez,Roberto
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Towards a national slum upgrading program for Ghana - building on 15 years of efforts to improve the living conditions of the poor in Ghana's cities (Inglés)
The note provides an outline of slum upgrading projects in Ghana, designed within low cost standards, funded by the central government with assistance from respective local governments. During 1985-1995...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 21102 Fecha del documento: 30 de abril de 2000 Autor: Banes, Chris,Huque, Rumana,Zipperer, Melanie
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Towards a national community infrastructure upgrading program for Ghana : building on 15 years of efforts to improve the living conditions of the poor in Ghana's cities (Inglés)
The note explores infrastructure upgrading in Ghana, which over the last fifteen years, has improved the living conditions of a number of poor people in the country. This upgrading featured planning, and...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 22023 Fecha del documento: 30 de abril de 2000 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Banes,Christopher J.,Huque,Rumana,Zipperer, Melanie