Documents et rapports
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Pension lending and analytical work at the World Bank : FY2002-2007 (anglais)
This paper presents an overview of the World Bank's lending and knowledge building activities that have improved pension systems in client countries during the past two decades. The objectives of this...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 45063 Date du document: 1 mai 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Biletsky, Sergei,Egelmelzer, Melike,Hinz,Richard Paul
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Labor markets in transition economies : recent developments and future challenges (anglais)
This paper examines how the Bank's role in labor markets in transition countries, can be made more effective. The Bank should focus on ensuring that project interventions are made in a comprehensive policy...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 23163 Date du document: 30 avril 2001 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Rashid, Mansoora,Rutkowski, Jan
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Who uses basic services in rural El Salvador? (anglais)
The study examines the use of basic services in rural areas of El Salvador, and provides information on regional distribution of disadvantaged groups across the country. Besides an inequality distribution...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19713 Date du document: 31 janvier 1997 Auteur: Castro-Leal,Florencia T.,Mehra,Kalpana
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The impact of public health spending on poverty and inequality in South Africa (anglais)
This study reviews the impact of public health spending on poverty, and, inequality, in South Africa, and examines how sector expenditures are distributed across socioeconomic groups, races, and regions...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19710 Date du document: 31 décembre 1996 Auteur: Castro-Leal,Florencia T.
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Poverty and inequality in the distribution of public education spending in South Africa (anglais)
The study explores the distribution of all public education resources across socioeconomic, and demographic groups in South Africa. The Benefit Incidence Analysis was the methodology used to measure the...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19711 Date du document: 31 décembre 1996 Auteur: Castro-Leal,Florencia T.
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Who benefits from public education spending in Malawi? results from the recent education reform (anglais)
Malawi's education system is hampered by problems of poor access, high repetition and dropout rates, poor infrastructure and inequality. To address this situation the new Government of Malawi has made...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19712 Date du document: 30 septembre 1996 Auteur: Castro-Leal,Florencia T.
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Protecting the disadvantaged in a high growth economy : safety nets in Thailand (anglais)
Although Thailand relied on rapid economic growth as the principal strategy for poverty reduction, with impressive results, regional disparities, both in growth, and in poverty reduction, still exist...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19709 Date du document: 31 juillet 1996 Auteur: Subbarao,Kalanidhi,Rudra, Kaushik
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Opportunistic government or sustaining reform? Electoral trends and public expenditure patterns in Peru, 1990-1995 (anglais)
The effects of discretionary public expenditures is analyzed, focusing on electoral outcomes during a period of economic reform in Peru. The authors examine the political consequences of the significant...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19708 Date du document: 31 mars 1996 Auteur: Kane, Cheikh T.,Graham,Carol L.
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Sector work and project performance in education : a review of Bank experience (anglais)
Subsequent action programs stemming from the Wapenhans report, emphasize the need for lending operations to be based on sound diagnostic Economic and Sector Work (ESW), with full participation of borrowers...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19707 Date du document: 31 janvier 1996 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Schwartz, Antoine,Sack, Richard
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Selected social safety net programs in the Philippines : targeting, cost-effectiveness and options for reform (anglais)
To ease transitional problems during stabilization and structural reform and to protect the well-being of the poor, the government of the Philippines have focused on three major safety net programs: food...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19701 Date du document: 30 novembre 1995 Auteur: Subbarao, K.,Ahmed, Akhter,Teklu,Tesfaye
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Poverty assessment in Ghana - using qualitative and participatory research methods (anglais)
The overall objective of this study was to contribute to social policy formulation in Ghana, through a widespread understanding of the processes that lead to poverty, in a participatory manner. Social...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19705 Date du document: 30 novembre 1995 Auteur: Norton, andy,Bortei-Doku Aryeetey, Ellen,Korboe, David,Dogbe, D.K. Tony
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Accounting for the reduction in rural poverty in Ghana 1988-1992 (anglais)
The appearance of poverty decline in three rural localities in Ghana, between 1988 and 1992, forms the basis for the hypotheses explored in this paper. It has been largely maintained that this decline...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19706 Date du document: 30 novembre 1995 Auteur: Jones,Christine W.,Ye,Xiao
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Armenia : a poverty profile (anglais)
The study presents a poverty profile, based mainly, on data from the Armenian pilot survey, pioneered in 1993-94, a unique effort among the former Soviet Union (FSU) countries, focused on issues such as...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19702 Date du document: 30 novembre 1995 Auteur: Braithwaite,Jeanine
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The incidence of social spending in ghana (anglais)
The study investigates the implication of economic recovery in Ghana, and how it relates to the incidence of social spending, reviewing how the poor benefit from education and health spending. As of the...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19704 Date du document: 30 novembre 1995 Auteur: Demery,Lionel,Chao,Shiyan,Bernier, Rene,Mehra,Kalpana
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Effects of social security on lifetime income distribution in Brazil (anglais)
This paper considers the distributive effects of a very complex Pay-As-You-Go Scheme from a lifetime income approach, assessing the potential effect of different variables on the returns offered by the...
Type de document: Document de travail sur la pauvreté et la politique sociale Numéro du rapport: 17362 Date du document: 31 août 1995 Auteur: Rofman,Rafael P.
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Effects of social security on lifetime income distribution in Argentina (anglais)
Argentina's Social Security system is one of the older retirement programs in the Americas, with an important coverage rate and a large number of retired workers. The system was reformed in 1994, creating...
Type de document: Document de travail sur la pauvreté et la politique sociale Numéro du rapport: 17364 Date du document: 31 août 1995 Auteur: Rofman,Rafael P.
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Performance indicators to monitor poverty reduction (anglais)
This booklet discusses the indicators that are relevant in monitoring the performance of the Bank's lending for poverty reduction. They are intended to make lessons emerging from the recent work program...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 31099 Date du document: 1 juin 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Beneficiary assessment - an approach described (anglais)
Beneficiary assessment is a tool to improve the quality of development operations. This is an approach to information gathering which assess the value of an activity as it is perceived by its principal...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 30448 Date du document: 1 février 1992 Auteur: Salmen,Lawrence F.