Download or read book International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Program Document for a Proposed Programmatic Loan in the Amount of US 100 Million to the United Mexican States for Affordable Housing and Urban Poverty Sector Adjustment Loan April 27 2004 written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Project, represents the first of a series of quick disbursing loans to support the Government of Mexico's low-income housing and urban program. To this end, the project goals focus on seven key areas: a) develop a sound national policy and institutional framework for housing, and urban development; b)design and establish a unified housing subsidy policy that facilitates access of low/moderate-income families, to housing, and leverages household savings, and private credit finance; c) strengthen the housing credit, and savings systems; d) strengthen urban real property registries, and rights; d) increase the supply of urban land and its access by the poor, and improve real estate market functions; e) coordinate and support physical and social investments, to systematically upgrade poor neighborhoods; and, f) improved prevention and management of the impacts of natural disasters. Risks however, include a relatively ambitious cross-sectoral approach, risking the timing approval of the second and third loans in the program. However, this risk should be mitigated through the well-designed, integrated strategy, and a small number of key prior actions, including the intended reform policy.
Download or read book International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Program Document for a Proposed Loan in the Amount of US 202 02 Million to the United Mexican States for a Programmatic Environment Structural Adjustment Loan July 8 2002 written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Project, will support and promote the Government's program for sustainable development, primarily, to balance socioeconomic development with environmental protection, and improvement. The project will support the establishment of technical coordination mechanisms with other sectors, mainstreaming environmental issues in sectoral policy, and, by designing fiscal instruments to promote payment of municipal water fees, investments in municipal hydraulic works, and generate revenue from the use of national marine protected areas, including reinvestments related with the environmental management of these areas. Furthermore, the project will support the creation of an enabling environment to decentralize federal environmental management functions to the state level, by way of changes to key legislation; by the preparation of a staged decentralization strategy, specifying the criteria with respect to personnel, and goods; and by establishing the use of third party certification, to ensure the decentralization process. An implementation strategy will be developed to improve public access to information on environmental impact assessment, allowing the application of key legislation on the transparency of information. Risks however include vulnerability to external shocks, lack of stakeholder coordination, political constraints to future reforms, and financial resource constraints to decentralization of environmental functions. Nonetheless, risks have been taken into account in project design, emphasizing on coordination, and consensus building, and, Mexico should benefit from the recovery of the US economy, though timing remains uncertain.
Download or read book Thirty Years of World Bank Shelter Lending written by Robert M. Buckley and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As England's Industrial Revolution started the process of urbanization that has since characterized development throughout the world, a poet worried about the ""dark satanic mills"" that were such a fundamental part of this revolution. However, despite his misgivings, he also suggested that it was necessary for societies to arm themselves with ""chariots of fire"" and other weapons so that they could master this process. In a somewhat more prosaic poetic vein World Bank President Robert McNamara launched the bank's shelter assistance programs saying that 'If cities do not begin to deal more constructively with poverty, poverty may begin to deal more destructively with cities.' These concerns would appear to have even more resonance today as the population of cities in developing countries increasing by unprecedented levels of more than 1 billion people per year for the next 15 years. This magnitude suggests the scale of the increase in the investment in shelter needed to meet the needs of this growing population."
Download or read book Program Document on a Proposed First Programmatic Finance and Growth Development Policy Loan in the Amount of US 501 26 Million to the United Mexican States written by World Bank. Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office. Colombia and Mexico Country Management Unit. Finance, Private Sector and Infrastructure Dept and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Program Document for a Proposed Second Programmatic Financial Sector Adjustment Loan in the Amount of US 100 Million to the Republic of Colombia written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Program Document for a Proposed Economic Policies in Rsponse to the Global Crisis Development Policy Loan in the Amount of US 1 504 Billion to the United Mexican States written by World Bank. Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office. Colombia and Mexico Country Management Unit. Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Department and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Program Document for a Proposed Loan in the Amount of US 150 Million for a Programmatic Financial Sector Adjustment Operation to the Republic of Colombia written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of the loan is to complete the clean up of the banking system as a result of the 1999-2001 crisis, and to strengthen the government's capacity to manage and mitigate weaknesses in the financial system. A key aspect of the proposed program is the design of a multi pronged effort to first dispose of the financial system's residual loan assets by developing more agile and modern financial instruments and fiduciary arrangements to package, and sell loan assets. The project also aims to strengthen and diversify the participation of the housing mortgage market including improved access to finance for the micro sector, as well as strengthening non bank financial services, and securities institutions in the financial system. The securitization industry will be further developed to support bank asset sales, to provide more liquidity to the mortgage industry, and to help develop the capital markets. A reform of the entire securities legislation will be conducted as part of the program's second phase, to promote a more agile development of the local capital market. This will involve reforming corporate governance and disclosure standards as well as proper criteria for securities industry participants.
Download or read book International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Program Document for the Proposed First Programmatic Fiscal Sustainability Development Policy Loan in the Amount of US 200 Million to Jamaica written by World Bank. Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office. Caribbean Countries Management Unit. Poverty Reduction and Economic Management and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Program Document for a Proposed Loan in the Amount of US 100 Million for the Republic of Colombia for a Third Programmatic Fiscal and Institutional Structural Adjustment Loan written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third Programmatic Fiscal and Institutional Structural Adjustment Loan Project within the program will focus primarily on the following key policy actions: a) acceleration of the phase-out of tax exemptions for profits of certain firms; b) increased revenues derived from improvements in tax administration of at least 0.3 percent of GDP, between 2003 and 2004, while maintaining DIAN - Direccion de Impuestos y Aduanas Nacionales - administrative costs per peso collected, below 0.96 percent; c) submission of a new budget law to improve the overall budgeting framework, complementing the 2003 Fiscal Responsibility Law; d) further improvements in the royalty transfer system, including restructuring of the National Royalty Fund; e) implementation of the legal defense of the State policy; f) establishment of oversight bodies for both procurement and asset management; g) compliance with the pilot management contracts with ICBF - Institution Colombiano de Binestar Familiar - and SENA - Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje; and, h) further progress in the monitoring system for the public sector reform process.
Download or read book International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Program Document for a Proposed Loan in the Amount of US 300 Million to the Republic of Colombia for a Financial Sector Development Policy Loan written by Eva Gutierrez and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Implementation Completion and Results Report IBRD 72610 for a Housing and Urban Technical Assistance Loan in the Amount of US 7 77 Million to the United Mexican States written by World Bank. Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office. Mexico and Colombia Country Management Unit. Sustainable Development Management Unit and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ratings for the (HUTAL) Project for Mexico were as follows: outcomes were moderately unsatisfactory, the risk to development outcome was low or negligible, the Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and the Borrower performance was also moderately satisfactory. Some lessons learned included: the HUTAL experience suggests that technical assistance lending may actually set policy dialogue back by focusing Bank and client time on bureaucratic procedural issues and, in the case of HUTAL, by a de facto relinquishing of policy dialogue to other institutions like (IADB) which are supporting specific investment programs (HABITAT). Recently the Mexico country department has been engaging in sector policy dialogue through non-reimbursable technical assistance, grant funded Economic Sector Work (ESW), stepped-up fee-for service work, and memos-of understanding, in addition to preparation and supervision of Development Policy Loan (DPL). Time will tell how these instruments work to sustain productive policy dialogues. One tool the Bank could consider will be increased South-South or South-North exchanges to bring the Bank's global knowledge to bear in client countries. Traditionally Technical Assistance Lending (TAL) offers a means of supporting nascent and weak institutions and of preparing for investment operations. In a Middle Income Country (MIC), however, the costs of setting up and operating public institutions are covered by existing government revenue.
Download or read book Project Appraisal Document on a Proposed Loan in the Amount of US 1 503 76 Million to the United Mexican States for a Support to OPORTUNIDADES Project written by World Bank. Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office. Colombia and Mexico Country Management Unit. Human Development Sector Management Unit and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Project Appraisal Document on a Proposed Loan in the Amount of US 47 Million Equivalent to Nacional Financiera S N C with the Guarantee of the United Mexican States for a Rural Development in Marginal Areas Project written by World Bank. Mexico Country Department and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financing Energy Efficiency written by Robert P. Taylor and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-02-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While energy efficiency projects could partly meet new energy demand more cheaply than new supplies, weak economic institutions in developing and transitional economies impede developing and financing energy efficiency retrofits. This book analyzes these difficulties, suggests a 3-part model for projectizing and financing energy efficiency retrofits, and presents thirteen case studies to illustrate the issues and principles involved.
Download or read book Program Document for a Proposed Programmatic Loan for Sustainable and Equitable Growth Housing Sector Reform in the Amount of US 502 5 Million to the Federative Republic of Brazil written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of the Programmatic Sustainable and Equitable Growth - Housing Sector Reform Loan Project is to support the Government's efforts in improving access by the poor to better housing and serviced/serviceable land, while maintaining fiscal discipline, as part of the set of loans supporting sustainable and equitable growth. Brazil has witnessed enormous progress in all economic and social fronts, the exception being the critical situation of the shelter for the poor. The Government is committed to address this challenge by supporting the needs of the very poor, and the development of a market that could, and should cater to the less poor. This loan focuses on one key component: housing sector reform. It thus deepens the reform agenda to promote efficiency of the financial sector and improve economic opportunity. Specifically, the project will a) develop a sound national policy, and institutional framework for housing and urban development; b) strengthen the housing credit, and savings systems, and provide incentives for the housing finance market to expand, as well as move "down-market"; c) design and implement a unified federal housing subsidy system, to address the affordability of housing solutions for the poor; and, d) reduce the costs of formal, urban land development, by strengthening land legislation, regulations, and real property registries. In spite of several risks to this operation, namely, timing and expectations, coordination and institutional risks, and,
Download or read book International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Program Document for a Proposed Rural Finance Development Structural Adjustment Loan in the Amount of US 505 06 Million to the United Mexican States May 16 2003 written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of the Project is to support a stage of the reform of Mexico's development banking sector. Specifically, this loan supports the liquidation of Banrural and the creation, in its place, of the new Rural Finance Institution (FR), as a non-banking decentralized institution that cannot mobilize deposits or issue debt and that is in charge of promoting the development of rural financial markets. The FR is funded directly through budgetary allocations; it must maintain the value of its capital endowment in real terms, report periodically to Congress, lend only to low and middle income rural producers, and move, over time, fully to second-tier lending. The proposed loan will be disbursed in three tranches. Conditions for tranche disbursements have been designed to be closely linked to building a financially viable rural finance institution (FR). A first tranche supports: (i) approval of the FR's Charter, and the budgetary appropriations for the liquidation of Banrural and the establishment of the FR; (ii) establishment of the FR's management structure, corporate governance, normative guidelines and regional organization; and (iii) adoption of strategic decisions that affect the initial operations of the FR and its financial viability. A second tranche supports: (i) adoption of a Strategic Plan including the shift to second-tier lending and the design of an integrated management information system and financial control system; (iii) adoption of new credit manuals and processes consistent with FR's financial viability. A third tranche supports confirmation that the FR complies with: (i) the objective of maintaining net income levels in real terms equal or higher than zero, for any consecutive six-month period within the preceding nine months; and (ii) its lending normative and CNBV's prudential regulations, including norms for risk classification and provisioning of loan portfolio.
Download or read book International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Program Document for a Proposed Second Programmatic Fiscal and Institutional Structural Adjustment Loan in the Amount of US 150 Million for the Republic of Colombia written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The government's fiscal and institutional reform agenda is supported by the Bank through the series of four single-tranche Fiscal and Institutional Adjustment Loans (FIAL). The objectives of this series of loans are two: first, to promote reforms addressing fiscal rigidities necessary to attain the substantial fiscal adjustment underlying sustainable macroeconomic stability; and second, to improve the provision of public services and establish the institutional basis for higher efficiency and accountability in public expenditure. The specific objectives of the FIAL program are to: (i) increase tax revenue and reduce distortions in the tax system; (ii) modernize the tax administration; (iii) promote the development of a sound fiscal responsibility legal framework; (iv) reduce losses and generate revenues through improved asset management; (v) prevent massive losses to the State from judicial claims; (vi) improve budget management with modem tools and legal reforms; (vii) develop incentives for efficiency gains in subnational entities; (viii) strengthen the public sector procurement system; (ix) improve performance through management contracts for agencies; and (x) support a coherent and comprehensive reform implementation process. This Second Programmatic Fiscal and Institutional Structural Adjustment Loan Project focuses on the following elements: (i) issuance of all legislation to regulate the application of the tax reform law; (ii) further improvements in tax administration,
