TY  - BOOK
ED  - Banco Mundial
ED  - Banco Mundial
ED  - Banco Mundial
TI  - Investing in people : the World Bank in action
T2  - Directions in development
SN  - 0-8213-3207-4
U1  - 338.910917 B 48063 
PB  - World Bank
KW  - DESARROLLO HUMANO
KW  - BANCO MUNDIAL
KW  - AYUDA AL DESARROLLO
KW  - PROYECTOS DE DESARROLLO
KW  - ESTUDIOS DE CASOS
KW  - PAISES EN DESARROLLO
KW  - BIRF
KW  - ASISTENCIA AL DESARROLLO
KW  - COOPERACION PARA EL DESARROLLO
KW  - APLICACIONES
KW  - CASOS PRACTICOS
KW  - TERCER MUNDO
N1  - Foreword -- Acknowledgments --Acronyms and data note -- Pt. 1. World Bank support for investing in people -- Pt. 2. Examples of Bank assistance -- Improving outcomes by concentrating resources to get the most value: 1. Bringing Pakistani girls to the front of the class -- 2. Stipends to keep Bangladeshi girls in school -- 3. Closing the life expectancy gap in Hungary -- 4. Targeting Indonesia's poor -- 5. Improving the performance of Tunisia's public hospitals -- 6. Integrating reproductive health care in Zimbabwe -- Listening, learning, and working with communities and households : 7. Food coupons for better nutrition in Honduras -- 8. Enlisting participation in India-on a grand scale -- 9. Reaching Mexican children early -- 10. Fueling Nigerian women's entrepreneurial drive -- 11. Working with poor communities in the Philippines-for better health -- 12. Listening to Tanzanian communities-to find out what's really wrong -- Collaborating with partners: 13. Partnerships fighting AIDS in Brazil -- 14. Results from long collaboration in Tunisia -- 15. Turning the tables for Zambia's health system -- 16. Controlling riverblindness in West Africa -- 17. New-and sensible-ways of doing business in Africa
N2  - Investing in people is at the core of the World Bank ' s work. Bank lending for education, health, nutrition, population, and other aspects of human resource development has increased sharply in recent years and is now averaging more that
ER  -