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Artículos de revistas y libros
Noviembre 2019
Oceanía

The Panguna mine on the Pacific island of Bougainville is one of the largest copper and gold deposits in the world. 

The mine was also at the center of a decade-long civil war fought between the Bougainville Revolutionary Army and the Papua New Guinea Defense Force in the 1990s. The conflict cost as many as 15,000 lives and displaced 40,000 of the island’s 200,000 inhabitants.

Materiales institucionales y promocionales
Marzo 2018
China
Oceanía
Asia

The Asia-Pacific region, despite impressive economic growth, is home to 490 million people still suffering from chronic hunger and it accounts for 62 percent of undernourished people in the world.

Informes e investigaciones
Documentos de política y resúmenes
Diciembre 2017
Indonesia
Asia oriental
Oceanía

Since the early 1990s, the industrial timber plantation (Hutan Tanaman Industri - HTI) scheme has been intended to serve as a major source of timber to meet domestic and export demand. The need to meet a large gap between legal wood supply and demand for forests products has been the recent years as high as 50 million

Informes e investigaciones
Recursos y herramientas de capacitación
Diciembre 2017
Filipinas
Asia oriental
Oceanía

It is acknowledged that conflict over land is a major source of violence in various parts of Mindanao, particularly the prosed Bangsamoro region. Historical accounts trace the root cause of land issues and identity-based conflict to the introduction of the Regalian doctrine of land ownership by Spanish colonizers.

Informes e investigaciones
Recursos y herramientas de capacitación
Agosto 2017
África
Kenya
Mozambique
Asia oriental
Asia sudoriental
Oceanía

These case studies were developed as part of the World Bank's Results Monitoring and Evaluation for Resilience Building Operations (ReM&E) project, which aims to develop and increase the application of systematic, robust, and useful approaches to monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for resilience-building projects/programs within the World Bank.

Artículos de revistas y libros
Documentos de política y resúmenes
Julio 2017
África
Américas
Asia
Oceanía

The Sustainable Development Goal 15 “Life on land” commits world leaders to work together to achieve land degradation neutrality (LDN) for safeguarding life on land. One of the objectives that comprise LDN is to reinforce responsible governance of land tenure. Land rights are a key factor for achieving LDN.

Informes e investigaciones
Documentos de política y resúmenes
Junio 2017
Viet Nam
Asia oriental
Oceanía

Governance quality plays a key role in private sector development: competent bureaucrats not only create good policies and regulations, but also effectively implement them to shape the business environment. This paper exploit Vietnam’s decentralization of administrative tasks since the early 2000s to test this hypothesis.

Informes e investigaciones
Documentos de política y resúmenes
Junio 2017
Oceanía
Caribe

This report was drafted by a working group of United Nations entities, the World Bank, and other stakeholders to suggest a common understanding of the blue economy; to highlight the importance of such an approach, particularly for small island developing states and coastal least developed countries; to identify some of the key challenges its adoption poses; and to suggest some broad next steps

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