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Agricultural supply chain risk assessment in the Caribbean (英语)
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...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 76204 文件日期: 2013年3月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Arias Carballo,Diego,Dos Reis,Laura
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Managing agricultural weather risks in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil (英语)
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...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 78236 文件日期: 2013年3月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Arias Carballo,Diego,Leiva, Juan Jose,Manfredi, Federico,Sy,Abdoulaye,Traore,Nouhoum-000531164
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The agricultural insurance market in the Caribbean (英语)
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...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 76205 文件日期: 2013年3月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: 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 (英语)
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...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 75189 文件日期: 2013年1月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Bonilla-Chacin,Maria Eugenia
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The decade of action for road safety 2011-2020 : lessons from Argentina (英语)
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...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 75188 文件日期: 2012年12月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: 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 (英语)
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...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 74921 文件日期: 2012年12月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Cortez,Rafael A.,Ferl,Katharina
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Universal health coverage and litigation in Latin America (英语)
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...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 72688 文件日期: 2012年7月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: 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 (英语)
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...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 72687 文件日期: 2012年6月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Gordillo-Tobar,Amparo Elena
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Promoting healthy living in Latin America and the Caribbean (英语)
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...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 71403 文件日期: 2012年5月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Bonilla-Chacin,Maria Eugenia
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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 (西班牙语)
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...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 71403 文件日期: 2012年5月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Bonilla-Chacin,Maria Eugenia
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Innovative training in cocoa agroforestry : the farmer field schools of Nicaragua (英语)
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...
报告号: 68266 文件日期: 2012年3月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Gonzalez Gomez,Mary Lisbeth
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Creating more livable cities : the case of the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area (英语)
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...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 68265 文件日期: 2011年12月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: 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 (西班牙语)
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...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 68507 文件日期: 2011年12月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Chinarro,Lara,De Nys,Erwin,Hidrogo,Carmen Rosa
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Non-communicable diseases in Jamaica : moving from prescription to prevention (英语)
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...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 65101 文件日期: 2011年9月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Chao,Shiyan,Carpio,Carmen,De Geyndt,Willy L.
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Fostering inclusive rural innovation : the case of INCAGRO in Peru (英语)
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...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 65100 文件日期: 2011年8月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: 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 (英语)
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...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 63662 文件日期: 2011年6月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Schuster, Christian,Abreu,Anabela
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Desarrollo inclusivo : la experiencia de VIH-Sida y discapacidad en Centroamérica (西班牙语)
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...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 63661 文件日期: 2011年3月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: 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 (英语)
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.
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 60355 文件日期: 2011年2月1日 披露方式: 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 (英语)
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...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 60356 文件日期: 2011年2月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: 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 (英语)
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...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 59600 文件日期: 2010年11月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Lafuente,Mariano,Rojas, Fernando