This review highlights three main findings. First, school feeding programs in low-income countries exhibit large variation in cost, with concomitant opportunities for cost containment. Second, as coun...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 48742Data: 1 de janeiro de 2009Autor:
Bundy,Donald A. P. ;
Burbano, Carmen ;
Grosh,Margaret Ellen
This second volume of the National Assessment of Educational Achievement series describes addresses the design of two types of data collection instruments: student achievement tests and background que...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 45411Data: 1 de janeiro de 2008Autor:
Anderson, Prue ;
Greaney, Vincent [editor] ;
Kellaghan, Thomas [editor] ;
Morgan, George
Doing Business 2008, the fifth report in the series, found that large emerging markets, such as China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Turkey, and Vietnam, were reforming fast. The report also found that mor...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 41938Data: 1 de janeiro de 2008
Middle-income countries are facing rapidly evolving development challenges as their economies mature and integrate into the global economy. As a group, the 86 middle-income countries account for about...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 43996Data: 1 de janeiro de 2007
The purpose of these guidelines is to inform those carrying out a project that is financed in whole or in part by a loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) or a cred...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 95474Data: 1 de outubro de 2006
The purpose of Guidelines : selection and employment of consultants by World Bank borrowers, is to define the Bank's policies and procedures for selecting, contracting, and monitoring consultants requ...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 95662Data: 1 de outubro de 2006
The report provides an overview on the issues regarding "Doing Business in 2006 - Creating Jobs", the third in a series of annual reports investigating business activity, and, looks specifically at re...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 34551Data: 1 de dezembro de 2005
Doing Business 2006, the third report in the series, found that Eastern European nations were aggressively courting entrepreneurs with far-reaching reforms to streamline business regulations and taxes...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 34550Data: 13 de setembro de 2005
This edition of Agua Series Brazil presents an analysis on projects of water transference between hydrographic basins. Projects implemented in Brazil and in diverse parts of the world are discussed, a...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 41609Data: 1 de julho de 2005Autor:
Azevedo, Luiz Gabriel Todt ;
Porto,Rubem La Laina ;
Mello Junior,Arisvaldo Vieira ;
Garrido,Juliana Menezes ;
Arrobas,Daniele La Porta ;
Norona, Luiz Correa ;
Pena Pereira Weiss,Lilian
This book examines issues related to reducing inequality in Brazil. As the volume's editors assert with authority, the current national political climate in Brazil provides an unprecedented space for ...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 42486Data: 1 de junho de 2005Autor:
Gacitua Mario, Estanislao (editor) ;
Woolcock, Michael (editor)
This book reviews the role of addressing within the array of urban management tools and explores the links between addressing and civic identity, urban information systems, support to municipal servic...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 32923Data: 1 de janeiro de 2005Autor:
Toyos-Chavez,Roberto C. ;
Farvacque-Vitkovic,Catherine D. ;
Godin,Lucien M. ;
Leroux, Hughes ;
Verdet, Florence
2004 was a good year for doing business in most transition economies, the World Bank Group concluded in its Doing Business in 2005 survey, the second in its series tracking regulatory reforms aimed at...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 30059Data: 1 de janeiro de 2005
The report's objectives are i) to better understand the nature and magnitude of urban transport problems, particularly in respect of the poor, and ii) to articulate a strategy by which the World Bank ...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 24910Data: 23 de junho de 2004Autor:
Gwilliam,Kenneth M.
This edition of Agua Series Brazil discusses social impacts and externalities of irrigation in semi-arid Brazil. In the context of the debates on the future role of the Government in the development o...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 41607Data: 1 de junho de 2004Autor:
Valdes,Alberto ;
Wagner,Elmar ;
Marzall,Ivo ;
Simas,Jose ;
Morelli,Juan Bautista ;
Pereira, Lilian Plena ;
Azevedo,Luiz Gabriel
This edition of Agua Series Brazil includes: an introduction to the work, approaches to and characteristics of problems encountered, and specific and general objectives of research and development; th...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 41642Data: 1 de junho de 2004Autor:
Teixeira, Francisco Jose Coelho
The purpose of these Guidelines is to inform those carrying out a project that is financed in whole or in part by a loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) or a cred...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 95472Data: 1 de maio de 2004
The purpose of this guidelines is to define the Bank's policies and procedures for selecting, contracting, and monitoring consultants required for projects that are financed in whole or in part by loa...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 29708Data: 1 de maio de 2004
This book seeks to contribute to knowledge in two areas that are key to poverty reduction and social development: education and youth vulnerability. Specifically, the book focuses on the relationship ...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 33962Data: 1 de abril de 2004Autor:
Bonelli,Regis ;
Brakarz,Barbara ;
Medrado De Franco,Vania ;
Gomes Da Silva,Jose Edson ;
Junho Pena, Maria-Valeria [editor] ;
Rodrigues dos Santos, Maria Magdalena [editor] ;
Salem,Tania Rachel ;
Veiga,Alinne De Carvalho
Efforts to launder money and finance terrorism have been evolving rapidly in recent years in response to heightened counter measures. The international community has witnessed the use of increasingly ...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 35052Data: 1 de janeiro de 2004Autor:
Schott, Paul Alllan
This study evaluated present levels of access to financial services in Brazil and government policies that have had an impact on access. Based on these findings, the study explored options for increas...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 30858Data: 1 de janeiro de 2004Autor:
Kumar,Anjali
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