In less than fifty years, Brazil evolved from a predominantly rural society and economy to a highly urbanized country in which 85 percent of its people now live in urban areas and more than 90 percent...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 96680Data: 29 de maio de 2015Autor:
Campanaro,Alessandra ;
Klink,Jeroen ;
Freire, Mila
This report, consisting of a study prepared by global project finance specialists Hunton and Williams LLP and comments from six internationally reputed economists and policy makers, provides an analyt...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 88485Data: 28 de maio de 2015Autor:
Beardsworth, John ;
Halland,Havard ;
Land,Bryan Christopher ;
Schmidt,James
This Rapid Agriculture Sector Risk Management Review of Brazilwas motivated by the fact that, despite the economic and social importance of the sector agriculture for Brazil, it is the most volatile. ...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: AUS12876Data: 2 de maio de 2015Autor:
De Sousa Amazonas,Maria De Fatima ;
Valdivia Zelaya,Pablo R. ;
Noronha Farinelli,Barbara Cristina ;
Rego,Vinicius Cruvinel ;
Zardo,Carla ;
De Melo E Silva,Fernando ;
De Campos,Luiz Daniel ;
Caballero,Ricardo Jorge ;
Figueredo, Eliana ;
Lopes, Daniela ;
Torres, Danielle ;
Guiducci, Rosana ;
Cortes,Vanessa De Amorim Pereira ;
Souza, Geraldo ;
dos Santos, Andre ;
Marcelino, Maria Quiteria ;
Gazzola, Rosaura ;
Campos, Silvia Kanadani ;
Gedanken, Alexandre ;
Pinto, Marcel Moreira ;
da Silva, Helia Lemos ;
Arias Carballo,Diego
In less than fifty years, Brazil evolved from a predominantly rural society and economy to a highly urbanized country in which 85 percent of its people now live in urban areas and more than 90 percent...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 96680Data: 1 de maio de 2015Autor:
Campanaro,Alessandra ;
Klink,Jeroen ;
Freire, Mila
The aim of this paper is to provide feedback on the question of socioeconomic benefits from rural road development and the impact of transport infrastructure on the poor, particularly the poorest and ...
Relatorio#: 95574Data: 1 de abril de 2015Autor:
Iimi,Atsushi ;
Lancelot,Eric R. ;
Manelici,Isabela ;
Ogita,Satoshi
Women, business and the law examines where economies provide legal protection for women and girls in areas such as child marriage, domestic violence, and marital rape. It also collects data on remedie...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 117707Data: 1 de abril de 2015Autor:
Sakhonchik,Alena ;
Recavarren, Isabel Santagostino ;
Tavares,Paula Magarinos Torres
This paper on Documents for Standard Acquisitions, Selection of Consultants, informs that this Proposed Standard Application (SPDP) was prepared by the World Bank and is based on the Master Document f...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 96799Data: 1 de abril de 2015
The Environmental Evaluation of the Rio de Janeiro Sustainable Rural Development Project was elaborated with the objective of meeting the Safeguard of the World Bank and aims to ensure that the projec...
Mozambique is poised to meet the MDG goal of 100 percent primary education enrollment. The achievement will have limited impact if the quality of the education that pupil has access to is lacking. Edu...
After decades of turmoil and instability, a period of calm and progress evolved in Guinea-Bissau in 2009. A military coup in April 2012 interrupted it. A fresh start is needed to alter the dynamics th...
Tipo: Country Economic MemorandumRelatorio#: 58296Data: 12 de janeiro de 2015
After decades of turmoil and instability, a period of calm and progress evolved in Guinea-Bissau in 2009. A military coup in April 2012 interrupted it. A fresh start is needed to alter the dynamics th...
Tipo: Country Economic MemorandumRelatorio#: 58296Data: 12 de janeiro de 2015
During a decade of rapid growth, more jobs and higher wages dramatically reduced poverty and drove down historically high levels of inequality. Governments in the region complemented the gains from gr...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 100298Data: 1 de janeiro de 2015
In 2013 the World Bank set itself two ambitious goals: to end extreme poverty within a generation and to boost the prosperity of the bottom 40 percent of the population worldwide. In Latin America, th...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 98544Data: 1 de janeiro de 2015Autor:
Freire,German Nicolas ;
Schwartz Orellana,Steven Daniel ;
Zumaeta Aurazo,Melissa ;
Costa, Damasceno Costa ;
Lundvall,Jonna Maria ;
Viveros Mendoza,Martha Celmira ;
Lucchetti,Leonardo Ramiro ;
Moreno, Laura ;
Sousa,Liliana Do Couto
This volume presents two research reports carried out with the objective of advancing practical knowledge in costing and use of cost information in the public sector. Both reports were carried out wit...
Tipo: Other Public Sector StudyRelatorio#: 93895Data: 1 de dezembro de 2014Autor:
Barroso,Rafael Chelles ;
Di Francesco,Michael
Every policy relies on explicit or implicit assumptions about how people make choices. Those assumptions typically rest on an idealized model of how people think, rather than an understanding of how e...
Tipo: World Development ReportRelatorio#: 92863Data: 25 de novembro de 2014Autor:
World Bank
This third report in the Turn Down the Heat series covers three World Bank regions: Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC); the Middle East and North Africa (MENA); and parts of Europe and Central Asia...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 92704Data: 23 de novembro de 2014Autor:
Adams, Sophie ;
Aich, Valentin ;
Albrecht, Torsten ;
Baarsch, Florent ;
Boit, Alice ;
Canales Trujillo, Nella ;
Cartsburg, Matti ;
Coumou, Dim ;
Eden, Alexander ;
Fader, Marianela ;
Hare, Bill ;
Hoff, Holger ;
Jobbins, Guy ;
Jones,Lindsey ;
Kit, Oleksandr ;
Krummenauer, Linda ;
Langerwisch, Fanny ;
Le Masson, Virginie ;
Ludi, Eva ;
Marcus,Rachel ;
Mengel, Matthias ;
Mosello, Beatrice ;
Möhring, Jacob ;
Norton, Andrew ;
Otto, Ilona M. ;
Perette, Mahé ;
Pereznieto, Paola ;
Rammig, Anja ;
Reckien, Diana ;
Reinhardt, Julia ;
Reyer, Christopher ;
Robinson, Alex ;
Rocha, Marcia ;
Sakschewski, Boris ;
Schaeffer, Michiel ;
Schaphoff, Sibyll ;
Schewe, Jacob ;
Schleussner, Carl-Friedrich ;
Serdeczny, Olivia ;
Stagl, Judith ;
Thonicke, Kirsten ;
Waha, Katharina ;
World Bank
Argentina reduced its HIV/AIDS burden by 21 percent from 2000 to 2010, saving an estimated 4,379 lives. This makes Argentinas HIV/AIDS burden the second lowest in South America after Chile. Argentina...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 91293Data: 1 de novembro de 2014Autor:
Lavadenz,Fernando ;
Miachon Silva,Lais
Companies in emerging markets do business with people who live at the Base of the Economic Pyramid (BOP) at various points along the value chain for strategic reasons. IFC has invested in hundreds of ...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 111936Data: 1 de novembro de 2014
Investing in young children is one of the best investments that countries can make. A childs earliest years present a unique window of opportunity to address inequality, break the cycle of poverty, a...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 92988Data: 1 de outubro de 2014Autor:
Denboba,Amina Debissa ;
Elder,Leslie K. ;
Lombardi,Joan ;
Rawlings,Laura B. ;
Mojgani,Rebecca Sayre ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
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