Documentos e informes

Digital Economy for Latin America and the Caribbean Country Diagnostic : El Salvador (Inglés)

The widespread adoption of digital technologies is transforming how individuals, businesses, and governments interact, as well as creating new opportunities for boosting shared prosperity and reducing...

Peru - En busca del aseguramiento universal en salud (Español)

El Perú ha hecho progresos sólidos para alcanzar el aseguramiento universal en salud. No se trata de un camino fácil, pues el reto es contar con un sistema en el que la población pueda compartir el riesgo...

Peru - Impulsar el desarrollo de las ciudades intermedias para potenciar el empleo, el mercado y los servicios básicos (Español)

Peru - Universalización de servicios de agua y saneamiento sostenibles (Español)

: Garantizar la disponibilidad de agua y saneamiento (A y S) sostenible para todos es uno de los principales motores de la salud pública y puede tener efectos profundos en el estado de nutrición de las...

Niger - GPE Support to Quality Education Project : procurement plan : Plan prévisionnel de passation des marchés de la première phase du PAEQ (Francés)

Gabon - Fourth Adaptable Program Loan (APL4) for the Central African Backbone Project : resettlement plan : Plan succinct de réinstallation (Francés)

Gabon - Fourth Adaptable Program Loan (APL4) for the Central African Backbone Project : resettlement plan : Cadre de politique de reinstallation (Francés)

Getting connected : competition and diffusion in African mobile telecommunications markets (Inglés)

The author studies the determinants of the diffusion of mobile telecommunications in Africa in a fixed effects model. He uses data from 1987-2000 on 41 African countries that have adopted cellular telecommunications...

Introducing telecommunications competition through a wireless license : lessons from Morocco (Inglés)

In August 1999 the Moroccan government awarded a second mobile telecommunications license through international tender. All bidders made commitments on quality, coverage, and tariffs that would significantly...

Telecommunications and Economic Prosperity : A Strategy for Africa (Inglés)

Africa was in economic crisis, a crisis that is reflected in the needs of its people and their lack of adequate telecommunications services to achieve sustainable development. A total of over 150 delegates...

Las telecommunicaciones y el desarrollo económico (Español)

The principal problems of the telecommunications sector in less developed countries center on the high capital cost of expanding telecommunications infrastructure, on the variety and diversity of the benefits...

Announcement of Eleven Million US Dollars Loan for Telephone System in Singapore on December 17, 1969 (Inglés)

This press release announces on December 17, 1969, that the World Bank has approved a loan equivalent to eleven million US dollars in support of a program of The Singapore Telephone Board which will nearly...

Announcement of Seven Million US Dollars Loan in Papua and New Guinea on June 27, 1968 (Inglés)

This press release announces on June 27, 1968, that a program to expand and improve telecommunications in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, essential to efficient administration and further economic...