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Groundwater management strategies : facets of the integrated approach

This briefing note explains the technical strategies to confront situations of excessive, and unstable groundwater exploitation, but the institutional framework for implementation is dealt with elsewh...
النوع : Brief تقرير #: 30091 التاريخ : January 1, 2006 المؤلف: Foster, James Stephen ; Garduno, Hector ; Kemper, Karin Erika ; Nanni, Marcella ; Tuinhof, Albert
Groundwater legislation and regulatory provision : from customary rules to integrated catchment planning

The note reviews country legislation over groundwater resources, specifying many governments have introduced legislation to regulate groundwater development, and to constrain activities that might com...
النوع : Brief تقرير #: 30092 التاريخ : January 1, 2006 المؤلف: Dumars, Charles ; Foster, James Stephen ; Garduno, Hector ; Kemper, Karin Erika ; Nanni, Marcella ; Tuinhof, Albert
Foreign exchange risk mitigation techniques : structure and documentation - a technical guide for microfinance institutions

Organizations exposed to foreign exchange risk have two options. First, they can "hedge" against their exposure. For example, they can purchase a financial instrument that will protect the organizatio...
النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 38410 التاريخ : January 1, 2006
Enhancing control of highly pathogenic avian influenza in developing countries through compensation : issues and good practice - executive summary : Enhancing control of highly pathogenic avian influenza in developing countries through compensation : issues and good practice : executive summary

The report on enhancing control of highly pathogenic avian influenza in developing countries through compensation seeks to provide guidelines on good practice for payment of compensation as part of hi...
النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 38403 التاريخ : January 1, 2006
Groundwater resource development in minor aquifers : management strategy for village and small town water supply

This briefing note deals primarily with issues affecting initial development, and subsequent expansion of groundwater supplies, in areas underlain by minor aquifers, whose yield to water wells is both...
النوع : Brief تقرير #: 32195 التاريخ : January 1, 2006 المؤلف: Foster, James Stephen ; Garduno, Hector ; Kemper, Karin Erika ; Koundourim Phoebe ; Nanni, Marccella ; Tuinhof, Albert
Groundwater resource management : an introduction to its scope and practice

The note provides an introduction to groundwater resource management, its scope and practice, and aims at clarifying the difference between surface water and groundwater, as follows. Groundwater diffe...
النوع : Brief تقرير #: 30089 التاريخ : January 1, 2006 المؤلف: Dumars, Charles ; Foster, James Stephen ; Garduno, Hector ; Kemper, Karin Erika ; Nanni, Marcella ; Tuinhof, Albert
Commercial loan agreements : a technical guide for microfinance institutions

This guidebook introduces borrowing microfinance institutions (MFIs or borrowers) to important provisions of a standard commercial bank loan agreement. It offers tips for drafting standard clauses and...
النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 38411 التاريخ : January 1, 2006
Characterization of groundwater systems : key concepts and frequent misconceptions

The note characterizes groundwater systems, reviews key concepts and frequent misconceptions, and explains how aquifers differ from one another. Groundwater flows generally take place in a myriad of i...
النوع : Brief تقرير #: 30090 التاريخ : January 1, 2006 المؤلف: Foster, James Stephen ; Garduno, Hector ; Kemper, Karin Erika ; Nanni, Marcella ; Tuinhof, Albert
Foreign exchange rate risk in microfinance : what is it and how can it be managed? : Foreign exchange rate risk in microfinance : What is it and how can it be managed?

The primary goal of this Focus Note is to raise awareness in the microfinance sector of the issues associated with foreign exchange risk. First, it explains what exchange risk is. Second, it looks at ...
النوع : Brief تقرير #: 35819 التاريخ : January 1, 2006 المؤلف: Featherston, Scott Douglas ; Littlefield, Elizabeth L. ; Mwangi, Patricia
Gender entrepreneurship markets (first quarter 2006)

This is the fifth quarterly newsletter designed to keep businesswomen in touch with key events, relevant research, and each other. This issue highlights e news of IFC and World Bank Group activities (...
النوع : Newsletter تقرير #: 35696 التاريخ : January 1, 2006
Groundwater dimensions of national water resource and river basin planning : promoting an integrated strategy

This briefing note deals primarily with promoting an integrated approach to water resource planning whereby groundwater is incorporated into the overall national strategy for water conservation. Groun...
النوع : Brief تقرير #: 38818 التاريخ : January 1, 2006 المؤلف: Garduno, Hector ; Foster, Stephen ; Nanni, Marcella ; Kemper, Karin Erika ; Tuinhof, Albert ; Koundouri, Phoebe
Natural groundwater quality hazards : avoiding problems and formulating mitigation strategies

The note questions how can potable, groundwater be affected by natural quality hazards, and discusses elements such as trace elements that can sometimes make it unfit of unacceptable for consumption, ...
النوع : Brief تقرير #: 32196 التاريخ : January 1, 2006 المؤلف: Foster, James Stephen ; Garduno, Hector ; Kemper, Karin Erika ; Koundouri, Phoebe ; Nannin, Marcella ; Tuinhof, Albert
Financial markets in a new age of oil : overview : 2006 economic developments and prospects : financial markets in a new age of oil - overview

This edtion of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) economic developments and prospects reports highlights the recent key economic developments as well as the forces underlying the region's economi...
النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 39407 التاريخ : January 1, 2006
The power of survey design - a user's guide for managing surveys, interpreting results, and influencing respondents

The vast majority of data used for economic research, analysis, and policy design comes from surveys-surveys of households, firms, schools, hospitals, and market participants, and, the accuracy of the...
النوع : Publication تقرير #: 35034 التاريخ : January 1, 2006 المؤلف: Iarossi, Giuseppe
Groundwater monitoring requirements for managing aquifer response and quality threats

Groundwater is an extensive, concealed and inaccessible resource, and (in contrast to surface water) changes in quantity and quality are often very slow processes occurring below large land areas. The...
النوع : Brief تقرير #: 30107 التاريخ : January 1, 2006 المؤلف: Foster, James Stephen ; Garduno, Hector ; Kemper, Karin Erika ; Nanni, Marcella ; Tuinhof, Albert
Utilization of non-renewable groundwater : a socially-sustainable approach to resource management

The note explains groundwater resources are never strictly non-renewable. But in certain cases the period needed for replenishment (100s to 1000s of years) is very long in relation to the normal time-...
النوع : Brief تقرير #: 30101 التاريخ : January 1, 2006 المؤلف: Foster, James Stephen ; Garduno, Hector ; Kemper, Karin Erika ; Nanni, Marcella ; Tuinhof, Albert
Series overview

The series is intended to give a concise introduction to the theory and practice of groundwater resource management and protection (a neglected subject) in a convenient and accessible format. Thus eac...
النوع : Brief تقرير #: 44292 التاريخ : January 1, 2006 المؤلف: Foster, Stephen ; Kemper, Karin Erika
Urban wastewater as groundwater recharge : evaluating and managing the risks and benefits

The note reviews how urban wastewater relate to groundwater, to what extent is wastewater a groundwater pollution hazard, and what types of measures are available for reducing risks, and increasing be...
النوع : Brief تقرير #: 30104 التاريخ : January 1, 2006 المؤلف: Foster, James Stephen ; Garduno, Hector ; Kemper, Karin Erika ; Nanni, Marcella ; Tuinhof, Albert
Using technology to build inclusive financial systems

Public agricultural, development, and savings banks do serve poor clients in many developing countries, but their objectives are largely social rather than commercial. Private and public banks devote ...
النوع : Brief تقرير #: 35820 التاريخ : January 1, 2006 المؤلف: Ivatury, Gautam J.
Reference guide to anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism : second edition and supplement on Special Recommendation IX

Efforts to launder money and finance terrorism have been evolving rapidly in recent years in response to heightened counter measures. The international community has witnessed the use of increasingly ...
النوع : Publication تقرير #: 35052 التاريخ : January 1, 2006 المؤلف: Schott, Paul Alllan