Documents & Reports
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Agricultural supply chain risk assessment in the Caribbean (English)
A rapid agricultural supply chain risk assessment, recently developed by the World Bank, constitutes a useful tool for a system-wide approach to identify risks, risk exposure, the severity of potential...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 76204 Document Date: March 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arias Carballo,Diego,Dos Reis,Laura
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Managing agricultural weather risks in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil (English)
Agriculture plays an important role in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Most of its production depends on small family-owned farms, which are greatly exposed to climatic and price shocks. In order...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 78236 Document Date: March 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arias Carballo,Diego,Leiva, Juan Jose,Manfredi, Federico,Sy,Abdoulaye,Traore,Nouhoum-000531164
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The agricultural insurance market in the Caribbean (English)
Agricultural insurance is a tool to manage agricultural production risks and help producers reduce the effects of negative shocks and improve the allocation of resources. It provides a mechanism to transfer...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 76205 Document Date: March 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arias Carballo,Diego,Dos Reis,Laura
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Governance of multi-sectoral interventions to promote healthy living in Latin America and the Caribbean (English)
The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has been experiencing a rapid demographic and epidemiological transition which has important health and economic consequences. Not only is the population aging...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 75189 Document Date: January 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bonilla-Chacin,Maria Eugenia
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The decade of action for road safety 2011-2020 : lessons from Argentina (English)
The United Nations decade of action for road safety 2011-2020 sets an ambitious goal to stabilize and then reduce by half the predicted level of traffic fatalities in low and middle-income countries by...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 75188 Document Date: December 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Raffo,Veronica Ines,Bliss, Tony
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Improving governance and management of health systems : partnerships and observatories in Latin America and the Caribbean (English)
Public health observatories proactively investigate health issues to provide robust analytical evidence to policy makers. This type of organization has different characteristics from other public health...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 74921 Document Date: December 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cortez,Rafael A.,Ferl,Katharina
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Universal health coverage and litigation in Latin America (English)
In recent years, several middle-income Latin American countries have seen a steep increase in the number of cases litigating access to curative services and inputs. A renewed judicial approach to the enforcement...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 72688 Document Date: July 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cubillos-Turriago,Leonardo,Escobar,Maria-Luisa,Iunes,Roberto F.
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MDGs 4 and 5 : maternal and child health/reproductive health in LAC (English)
The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region fares well on achievement of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets when compared with other regions, but the region has great disparities between and...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 72687 Document Date: June 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gordillo-Tobar,Amparo Elena
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Promoting healthy living in Latin America and the Caribbean : Promocion de estilos de vida saludable en America Latina y el Caribe (Spanish)
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes mellitus and chronic respiratory diseases generate a heavy burden in the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Cardiovascular...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 71403 Document Date: May 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bonilla-Chacin,Maria Eugenia
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Promoting healthy living in Latin America and the Caribbean (English)
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes mellitus and chronic respiratory diseases generate a heavy burden in the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Cardiovascular...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 71403 Document Date: May 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bonilla-Chacin,Maria Eugenia
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Innovative training in cocoa agroforestry : the farmer field schools of Nicaragua (English)
The World Bank, with the financial support of the Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF), is implementing the Alternative Indigenous and Afro-Descendants and Agroforestry Project (COCOA-RAAN) in the indigenous...
Report No.: 68266 Document Date: March 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gonzalez Gomez,Mary Lisbeth
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Creating more livable cities : the case of the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area (English)
Despite Rio de Janeiro's privileged position as Brazil's historical capital (from the eighteenth century until 1960) and as a major center for tourism, culture, and education, the city and its region (collectively...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 68265 Document Date: December 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Palladini,Eric
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Women leaders in the management of irrigation : a source of inspiration for the Sierra of Peru : Mujeres lideres en la gestion del riego : una fuente de inspiracion para la Sierra del Peru (Spanish)
This brief points out that in Peru many leadership positions at all levels of business, public and private, are occupied by men (over 75 percent). In the Water User Organizations (OAU) for irrigation in...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 68507 Document Date: December 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chinarro,Lara,De Nys,Erwin,Hidrogo,Carmen Rosa
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Non-communicable diseases in Jamaica : moving from prescription to prevention (English)
Reducing the burden of Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Jamaica is a national policy. The Government of Jamaica has recognized the importance of preventing and controlling NCDs and created the National...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 65101 Document Date: September 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chao,Shiyan,Carpio,Carmen,De Geyndt,Willy L.
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Fostering inclusive rural innovation : the case of INCAGRO in Peru (English)
Both women and indigenous peoples face key barriers that limit their capacity to access and benefit from development projects. In a country like Peru where women and indigenous peoples represent a large...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 65100 Document Date: August 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Nys,Erwin,Dasso,Maria Elizabeth,Ramirez,Ana Francisca
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Together towards transparency : lessons from the implementation of the Construction Sector Transparency Initiative (Cost) pilot in Guatemala (English)
Publicly financed construction is a key driver for economic growth and poverty reduction worldwide. At the same time, it is a sector unusually prone to corruption, not least due to large opportunities...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 63662 Document Date: June 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Schuster, Christian,Abreu,Anabela
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Desarrollo inclusivo : la experiencia de VIH-Sida y discapacidad en Centroamérica (Spanish)
The Regional Program on HIV-AIDS in Central America undertook the implementation of collaborative and inclusive actions on HIV-AIDS and Disability. A series of Regional forums (El Salvador, 2008 and 2009...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 63661 Document Date: March 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Berman Bieler,Rosangela,Meresman,Sergio,Galván Olrich, José Guillermo,Rodríguez, Elizabeth
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A lesson in trust yields big rewards in Panama procurement : $20 million saved in one contract in 2009 alone (English)
This brief includes the following heading: introduction; a bottom-up success; fuel for the future; procurement: where the rubber hits the road; and miles to go.
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 60355 Document Date: February 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Cutting costs, boosting quality and collecting data real-time - lessons from a cell phone-based beneficiary survey to strengthen Guatemala's conditional cash transfer program (English)
A 2010 country governance and Anti-Corruption (CGAC) funded pilot in Guatemala employed entry-level mobile phones in conjunction with Episurveyor, a free, web-based software for data collection, to drastically...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 60356 Document Date: February 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Perez Brito,Carlos Tomas,Schuster, Christian
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The Spanish trust fund for Latin America and the Caribbean : rebuilding trust in the State in Latin America by improving the quality of public policies-ideas from the OECD (English)
In their path to improve their policy-making process, Latin American governments typically face, at least, five important challenges: 1) insufficient technical capacity at the center of government to formulate...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 59600 Document Date: November 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lafuente,Mariano,Rojas, Fernando