1. Understanding Poverty

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  • Avian and Human Influenza (Inglês)

    Avian and human flu raises the specter of a global pandemic that can kill hundreds of millions, make billions ill, and cost trillions of dollars. Uncoordinated actions in response to a future outbreak...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 135358 Data do documento: 28 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Jonas,Olga B.

  • Colombia : Cartagena Water Supply and Sewerage (Inglês)

    Cartagena is a coastal city in Colombia, and tourism is a main pillar of the economy. In 2000, pollution from domestic wastewater was contaminating tourist beaches, degrading the environment, and producing...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 135363 Data do documento: 28 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Browder,Greg J.,Yee,Carmen

  • India : DSCL Sugar - Increasing Productivity (Inglês)

    DCM Shriram Consolidated Limited (DSCL), an International Finance Corporation (IFC) investment client, is one of the major sugar producers in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, providing the 150,000 sugar...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 135392 Data do documento: 28 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Roberts,Bradford Lee,Vivek,Harsh

  • Ghana : Disaster Preparedness and Watershed Management (Inglês)

    Recurring floods in the north of Ghana called for an improved flood forecasting system to better manage the situation, and find long-term solutions for mitigation. However, in working towards this there...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 135390 Data do documento: 28 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Dingel,Carl Christian

  • Nicaragua - The ECOM Monitoring Pilot (Inglês)

    The development challenge was low productivity, and therefore low income, among coffee farmers. A significant demand existed for services to improve productivity, such as market information, financing...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 135480 Data do documento: 28 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor:

  • Argentina : Road Safety (Inglês)

    Road crash fatalities are an epidemic in the developing world, the number one killer of the young, with huge economic and social costs. These fatalities can only be stabilized and then reduced if all actors...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 135357 Data do documento: 28 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Raffo,Veronica Ines

  • Global Scaling Up Rural Sanitation (Inglês)

    Worldwide, 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation, and three quarters of these people live in rural areas. Seeking to respond to this development challenge, in 2007, the World Bank initiated...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 135391 Data do documento: 28 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Perez,Eduardo

  • Latvia - Who is Unemployed, Inactive or Needy? (Inglês)

    The central challenge was a lack of information about Latvia’s poor and unemployed, which was needed to develop anti-poverty programs and effectively target beneficiaries. While Latvia has among the highest...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 135432 Data do documento: 28 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Sinnott,Emily

  • Kuwait - Enhancing Labor Market Information Systems (Inglês)

    Mismatches in the labor market negatively impacted employment opportunities, and policymakers in Kuwait were unable to make evidence-based decisions to correct these distortions. Information crucial for...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 135435 Data do documento: 28 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Alkhoja,Ghassan N.

  • Cambodia : Second Education Sector Support Project (Inglês)

    Drop-out rates due to economic reasons in upper primary and secondary schools have been very high in Cambodia. This program focused on the design, scaling-up, and mainstreaming of scholarship programs...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 135361 Data do documento: 28 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Beng,Simeth

  • Yemen, Republic of - Social Fund for Development Phase Four (Inglês)

    In Yemen, a high proportion of the population lives in poverty, with low access to health, education, water, and other basic services. This falls particularly heavily upon vulnerable populations, such...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 135427 Data do documento: 28 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Hong,Mira

  • Indonesia : National Program for Community Empowerment in Rural Areas (Inglês)

    The government of Indonesia needed to cost-effectively deliver basic services and assistance to the rural poor across its vast territory. The government, with World Bank funding and technical assistance...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 135394 Data do documento: 28 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Woo,Sonya

  • Nigeria - ICT for Social Accountability (Inglês)

    The development challenge was to ensure better service provision in health and agriculture by effectively collecting feedback from World Bank project beneficiaries in Nigeria. The project had to avoid...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 135424 Data do documento: 28 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Rossiasco,Paula

  • Uganda - Reproductive Health Voucher (Inglês)

    In Uganda, poor, rural women often lack professional medical attendance during childbirth, leading to elevated risk of maternal mortality. The project created a system to ensure that private partners effectively...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 135426 Data do documento: 28 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Okwero,Peter,Villegas,Leslie

  • Bangladesh : Partnership for Clean Textile (PaCT) (Inglês)

    While Bangladesh’s textile industry is an important driver of the national economy, it is also a heavy consumer of water, and a major polluter of water bodies around it. Suboptimal use of chemicals and...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 135360 Data do documento: 28 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Mahmood,Syed Akhtar

  • Indonesia : Partnership for Knowledge-Based Poverty Reduction (Inglês)

    Partners in the Government of Indonesia face challenges in producing rigorous evidence and applying it to develop policy and program responses to reduce poverty and vulnerability, tackle inequality, and...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 135389 Data do documento: 28 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Alatas,Vivi

  • Morocco : National Initiative for Human Development (Inglês)

    The main development challenge was a lack of participatory mechanisms to identify peoples’ needs for programs to alleviate poverty and social exclusion. The Moroccan government’s approach to dealing with...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 135478 Data do documento: 28 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Medouar,Mohamed,Liverani,Andrea

  • Morocco - Ouarzazate Concentrated Solar Power Project Phase One (Inglês)

    Morocco is the largest energy importer in the MENA region, but it is also seeking to reduce its dependence on imported fossil fuels, as well as its carbon footprint. In 2010, Morocco adopted a ‘National...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 135479 Data do documento: 28 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor:

  • India : Improving Rural Livelihoods in Bihar (Inglês)

    The state of Bihar has some of the worst social and economic indicators in India, with significant challenges of social exclusion, lack of access to finance, landlessness, low food security, and indebtedness...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 135393 Data do documento: 28 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Shah,Parmesh

  • Tanzania - Productive Safety Net Project (Inglês)

    In Tanzania, despite compulsory education for children from 5-12 years, those from poor households often either drop out of school or are not enrolled in school because their parents cannot afford to pay...

    Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 135425 Data do documento: 28 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Manjolo,Ida,Salazar,Manuel