Reports

News Release No. 99/2068/LAC WASHINGTON, January 7, 1999 - The World Bank today approved a US$20 million equivalent International Development Association (IDA) credit to Honduras to provide urgently-needed financial assistance for rehabilitating or reconstructing key roads and bridges damaged by Hurricane…

News Release No. 99/2064/LAC WASHINGTON, January 7, 1999 - The World Bank today approved a US$13.2 million equivalent International Development Association (IDA) credit to Nicaragua to repair and rehabilitate school infrastructure, provide new educational materials, and extend financing for financially-disadvantaged students…

AMSTERDAM, Jan 6 (Reuters) - The Dutch government said on Wednesday it will discharge Nicaragua and Honduras from tens of millions of guilders in loan repayments over the next three years as they recover from the ravages of Hurricane…

NR-02/99 Briefing for Miami, Fla. - area business leaders on Thursday, Jan. 21 A senior official of the Inter-American Development Bank will make a presentation on Thursday, Jan. 21 at a business briefing organized by the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce…

WASHINGTON -- President Clinton has announced new steps intended to ease the plight of the Cuban people and help prepare them for a democratic future. In a January 5 statement, the president said that the new steps are designed to…

Hurricane Mitch The following list was produced by InterAction, a coalition of more than 160 US-based private relief, development and refugee assistance agencies. InterAction members have agreed to abide by a set of standards to ensure accountability to donors, professional competence…

Preface This landmark study is the outcome of a case study (Aguilar et al. 1995) prepared for the first book in the series UNU Studies on Critical Environmental Regions. Among the nine regions covered in that initial…

ORGANIZACION PANAMERICANA DE LA SALUD Oficina Regional Para las Americas ORGANIZACION MUNDIAL DE LA SALUD Washington, DC, 31 de diciembre de 1998 - El riesgo de retrocesos en salud como resultado del huracán Mitch, el decrecimiento en la tasa de mortalidad…

Román D. Ortíz El artículo desarrolla el concepto de "descentralización de la violencia", proceso en el cual se ven fusionadas la violencia política y la violencia común. La debilidad del aparato estatal, el resurgimiento de solidaridades subnacionales…

PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION Regional Office for the Americas WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION Washington, December 31, 1998 - The risk of setbacks in health as a result of Hurricane Mitch, and decreases in infant mortality and improved life expectancy topped the health…