This tenth edition of Doing Business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting eleven areas in the life cycle of a business…
La joven autora de este texto, SEGUNDO PREMIO en la categoría de artículos del Concurso Alimentos y pensamientos, siempre en agenda, argumenta con apasionada convicción la hipótesis de que el mundo sería perfectamente capaz de alimentarse a sí mismo a través de una ecuación virtuosa entre…
Este boletín se ha publicado en el marco de la Campaña CRECE de Oxfam y contiene una serie de artículos vinculados al desarrollo rural en la región. René Martínez, de la Fundación Jubileo, realiza un análisis sobre los desafíos y oportunidades de la agricultura en Bolivia en el marco de la…
Climate change is a very serious
environmental challenge that affects prospects for
sustainable development. Since the Industrial Revolution,
the mean surface temperature of Earth has increased an
average of one degree…
The proliferation of urban slums is due
in large part to obsolete regulatory, legal and
institutional frameworks at the local level governing land
use, development standards, land registration and titling.
These regulations…
Reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and
other greenhouse gases that affect climate change is one of
the key challenges facing the international community. The
Bank's Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF) provides a framework
for…
El objetivo de este documento es presentar un diagnóstico sobre la situación de la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional (SAN) de América Latina y el Caribe.
Se presentan los avances recientes en materia de SAN, destacando su heterogeneidad entre los países de la región y la doble carga de…
Many countries in Latin America have passed legislation that supports value capture policies as a way to recoup some or all the unearned increase in private land values resulting from public regulations or investments. Thus far, however, only a few jurisdictions in certain countries have applied…
This chapter uses supply chain analysis (SCA) to identify transport and logistics bottlenecks that add costs, times and uncertainty to the exportation of perishable agricultural products from Central America. Macro-level analyses of logistics performance, including the logistics performance…
This chapter uses supply chain analysis (SCA) to identify transport and logistics bottlenecks that add costs, times and uncertainty to the exportation of perishable agricultural products from Central America. Macro-level analyses of logistics performance, including the logistics performance…
In Central America, cargo is transported almost entirely by road. The movement of imports and exports to and from international seaports is done by truck. Rail service is almost nonexistent and air transport serves less than one percent of the cargo generated within the Central American Common…
In Central America, cargo is transported almost entirely by road. The movement of imports and exports to and from international seaports is done by truck. Rail service is almost nonexistent and air transport serves less than one percent of the cargo generated within the Central American Common…