The Long March: A Reform Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean in the Next DecadeWorld Bank Publications, 1997 M01 1 - 115 pages The Technical Department of the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank, together with host countries in the region, organized a series of seminars in 1995-96 to explore viable options for speeding up wastewater treatment. The seminars focused on the technological and financial options available for municipal wastewater treatment and use. Also discussed was the Bank's technical and financial support of wastewater sector development in Latin America. This book, a review of the seminars, includes a general and simplified description of the available wastewater treatment technologies and implementation methods. The publication focuses on the debate on wastewater management and ways of investing in its treatment. |
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... Growth Rate .19 Table 1.4 Inflation Rate ..20 Table 1.5 Non - Financial Public Sector Balance ......... ..21 Table ... Rates ..... ..62 Table 3.2 Growth of Gross Domestic Investment in LAC , 1980-1995 . .... 62 Table 3.3 World ...
... Growth Rate .19 Table 1.4 Inflation Rate ..20 Table 1.5 Non - Financial Public Sector Balance ......... ..21 Table ... Rates ..... ..62 Table 3.2 Growth of Gross Domestic Investment in LAC , 1980-1995 . .... 62 Table 3.3 World ...
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... Rates in East Asia , 1985-1995 ..64 Table 3.7 Output - Capital Ratios in LAC and East Asia , 1985-1990 . Homicides ... Growth Rates by Region Banking Operating Costs Figure 3.3 Educational Achievement and Expeditures Figure 3.4 ...
... Rates in East Asia , 1985-1995 ..64 Table 3.7 Output - Capital Ratios in LAC and East Asia , 1985-1990 . Homicides ... Growth Rates by Region Banking Operating Costs Figure 3.3 Educational Achievement and Expeditures Figure 3.4 ...
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... growth rates that were indeed higher in the early 1990s than they had been in the " lost decade " of the 1980s . Projections of growth rates over 6 percent per year for the second half of the 1990s were commonplace . The region was ...
... growth rates that were indeed higher in the early 1990s than they had been in the " lost decade " of the 1980s . Projections of growth rates over 6 percent per year for the second half of the 1990s were commonplace . The region was ...
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... growth rate of the region's per capita income by about two percentage points . ' At the same time , the mood is more sober than it was before the Mexican cri- sis of late 1994. Projections of future annual growth rates range between 4 ...
... growth rate of the region's per capita income by about two percentage points . ' At the same time , the mood is more sober than it was before the Mexican cri- sis of late 1994. Projections of future annual growth rates range between 4 ...
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... growth that characterizes most of LAC . Poor access to credit by ... rates . Achieving the required level of investment and degree of efficiency ... growth , and thus contribute in an important way to the reduction of poverty . Indeed ...
... growth that characterizes most of LAC . Poor access to credit by ... rates . Achieving the required level of investment and degree of efficiency ... growth , and thus contribute in an important way to the reduction of poverty . Indeed ...
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