This is the second of two articles that draw on the results of recent studies of the links between financial services and low income communities in Latin America. While the focus remains on the nature...
This is the second of two articles that draw on the results of recent studies of the links between financial services and low income communities in Latin America. While the focus remains on the nature...
The authors look at the depth of the financial sector in Bogota in terms of the "financial exclusion" of those, particularly poorer citizens, who operate without accounts in formal financial institutions-the...
This paper examines the ways in which lower-income households obtain basic financial services in urban communities in Mexico and the United States. And it discusses the efforts that private sector and...
The report summarizes the findings of research carried out by the Bank's Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) through 1999, outlining the six-country study of small scale providers in Latin America, and...
The report summarizes the findings of research carried out by the Bank's Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) through 1999, outlining the six-country study of small scale providers in Latin America, and...
In water and sanitation there has always been a belief that the sector has a high degree of natural monopoly. But competition is widespread at the low-income end of the retail level in developing countries...
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: it's a small world: meeting again 30 years later, by Jill Roessner; Meet Kofi, Maria and Sunita: stories from the World Bank, by Jill...
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following headings: together, we can change the World, by Jill Roessner; a fishy tale, by Jan Post; communicating about the Bank in Cote d'Ivoire, by Robert...
This Banks world newsletter includes some of the following headings: dealing with disasters, by Tova Maria Solo; personnel reorganizes, by Alan Drattell; the Bank within the Bank, by John Poulsen; joint...
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following headings: housing Mexico's poor, by Tova Maria Solo; support staff retreat dissects the issues, by Alan Drattell; the observer in Berlin, by Frank...