Nota de disertación: TABLA DE CONTENIDO: Tables and figures -- Preface -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: gender and the problem of access -- 2. The inside/outside dichotomy -- 3. Regional and socioeconomic variations -- 4. Access, productivity, and poverty: the intrahousehold dimension -- 5. Household-level responses to changes in the indian economy -- 6. Women in rural areas -- 7. Women workers in urban areas -- 8. Women's access to social services -- 9. Different approaches to women in development -- 10. Conclusion -- References -- Statistical appendix.

Nota de disertación: TABLA DE CONTENIDO: List of acronyms -- Glossary -- 1. Introduction and summary -- 2. Promoting economic reform -- 3. Reaching the poor -- 4. Environmentally sustainable development -- 5. Aggregate uses and resources -- 6. Looking ahead -- Annexes -- Boxes -- Figure -- Tables.

Nota de disertación: TABLA DE CONTENIDO: Foreword -- Prefacio -- Préface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Executive summary -- Resumen -- Résumé analytique -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bank policy -- 3. Bank lending -- 4. Outcomes -- 5. Bank processes -- 6. Implementation -- 7. Key issues in system design and sustainability -- 8. Current directions -- 9. Findings and recommendations -- Supplement -- Figures -- Tables -- Boxes.

Nota de disertación: TABLA DE CONTENIDO: 1. Introduction -- 2. The effect of pure market buybacks -- 3. Simple menus: relend or exit -- 4. Cost of debt reduction -- 5. Underfunded menus -- 6. Heterogeneous banks -- 7. Evaluation of the Mexico 1990 deal -- 8. Concluding remarks -- Appendix 1: The case with multilateral loans -- Appendix 2: The debt value curve and the debt reduction/new money frontier -- References.

Nota de disertación: Preface -- 0. Introduction -- 1. A partnership-based approach to poverty reduction: an empirical exploration -- 2. The enabling environment for partnerships: what is helping and what is hindering? -- 3. Conclusions -- Annex 1: Summaries of selected case studies -- Annex 2: Tables of basic information on the selected case studies -- Annex 3: Further information on the partnerships for poverty reduction program: methodology, collaborating partners, case studies and web site -- Bibliography.

Nota de disertación: TABLA DE CONTENIDO: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Keynote address / Ismail Serageldin -- 1. A global representative system of marine protected areas: Introduction / Jan Post -- History of the marine protected areas report / Graeme Kelleher -- Mentoring for sustainability / Richard Kenchington -- A cooperative program to implement the marine protected areas report / Chris Bleakley -- Marine protected areas in Belize / Sue Wells -- Questions, responses, and comments -- 2. Financing and sustaining coral reef conservation initiatives: Introduction / John Dixon -- Revenue generation to sustain coral reef conservation / Tighe Geoghegan -- Marine eco-turism: fundamental characteristics and links to conservation / Tundi Agardy -- Environmental trust funds / Barry Spergel -- Global environment facility trust funds in support of conservation / Kathy Mikitin -- Global environment facility / Kathy Mackinnon -- Questions, responses, and comments -- 3. Income-generating opportunities and environmental limitations: Introduction / Louise Scura -- Marine bioprospecting / David Newman -- Opportunities in sustainable mariculture / John Walch -- Cost-effective wastewater remediastion for the protection of coral reef environments / Walter Adey -- An ecosystem approach to managing marine protected areas for sustainable use / Billy Causey -- Conflict management and benefit sharing as a means toward conservation of marine biodiversity / Ricardo Meléndez -- Questions, responses, and comments -- 4. Creating a planning and investment framework through partnerships: Introduction / John McManus -- Large and small-scale marine protected areas: planning, investment and intergenerational quality of life / John McManus -- Sustainable financing of protected areas in Southern Sinai / Michael Pearson -- Community groups and the protected areas resource conservation project / Robert Kerr -- Outline for proposed biodiversity enterprise fund for Latin America / Michael Rubino -- Creating a planning and investment framework through partnerships: the biodiversity conservation network / Hank Cauley -- Questions, responses, and comments -- 5. Group discussions: Introduction / Marea Hatziolos -- The international coral reef initiative / Susan Drake -- The CORAL diver network / Stephen Colwell -- Questions, responses, and comments. 6. Conclusions: The challenges ahead / Colin Rees -- Appendix: Panel and participant contact information.

Nota de disertación: TABLA DE CONTENIDO: Preface -- Terms, abbreviations, and acronyms -- Executive summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Host-country business environment -- 3. Financial and commercial issues -- 4. Risk -- 5. The security package -- 6. Project procurement and selection -- Bibliography -- Annexes -- Energy publications.

Nota de disertación: TABLA DE CONTENIDO: Sección 1. Introducción -- Sección 2. Funciones y responsabilidades relacionadas con la iniciativa LACI -- Sección 3. Certificación de los proyectos para efectuar desembolsos en función de los PMR -- Sección 4. Preparativos para los desembolsos en función de los PMR -- Sección 5. Tramitación de los desembolsos en función de los PMR -- Sección 6. Seguimiento del proyecto -- Sección 7. Información a los prestatarios -- Siglas y abreviaturas.

Nota de disertación: TABLA DE CONTENIDO: 1. Introducción resumen -- 2. Las brechas más importantes -- 3. Interacción entre la tecnología y las destrezas: evidencia para América Latina y el Caribe -- 4. Cerrar la brecha en destrezas: políticas educativas-- 5. Cómo cerrar la brecha en destrezas: políticas de entrenamiento -- 6. Transición tecnológica y elementos de política sobre tecnología -- 7. Redes y sistemas nacionales de innovación.

Nota de disertación: TABLA DE CONTENIDO: Preface -- Notes and definitions -- Commodity descriptions -- Summary -- Commodity markets in 1987-90 -- Global assumptions underlying the primary commodity forecasts -- Energy: Energy -- Petroleum -- Coal -- Metals and minerals: Copper -- Tin -- Nickel -- Aluminum and bauxite -- Iron ore -- Steel -- Lead and zinc -- Gold -- Silver.

Nota de disertación: TABLA DE CONTENIDO: Environment and the World Bank Group -- World Bank Group: Portfolio of projects to protect the environment -- World Bank Group: Projects with full environmental assessment (Category A) -- Global environmental facility: Investment work program -- Montreal Protocol: Projects to protect the ozone layer.

Nota de disertación: TABLA DE CONTENIDO: V. 1. Main report: Executive summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Poverty trends and determinants: 1987-98 -- 3. Trends in inequality and the impact of social expenditures -- 4. Employment, unemployment and special programs of assistance -- 5. Indigenous people, social exclusion and poverty -- 6. Conclusions -- V. 2. Background papers: 1. Updated income distribution and poverty measures for Chile: 1987-98 by Julie Litchfield -- 2. The distributional impact of social expenditure: Chile 1990-98 by David Bravo, Dante Contreras, and Isabel Millán -- 3. Incorporating social services in the measurement of povert by Osvaldo Larrañaga -- 4. The targeting of government programs in Chile: a quantitative and qualitative assessment by Carine Clert and Quentin Wodon -- 5. Government programs for the insertion of youths and women in Chile's labor market by Rodrigo Castro-Fernandez, Carine Clert and Quentin Wodon -- 6. Protecting the unemployed in Chile: from state assistance to individual insurance by Rodrigo Castro-Fernandez and Quentin Wodon -- 7. Indigenous peoples in Chile: current situation and policy issues by Estanislao Gracitua-Mario.=502