Countries Eligible for World Bank Borrowing Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Belize Plurinational State of Bolivia Brazil
Chile Colombia Costa Rica Dominica Dominican Republic
Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti
partnership-strategy-cps-period-fy2012-2015.) In turn, Bolivia’s CPS will affect the lives of 3 million people, largely from rural areas, and support directly 1 million farmers in the country’s impoverished north. On the second anniversary of Haiti’s tragic earthquake, a new interim strategy provided $225 million in grants toward the country’s reconstruc tion efforts. This funding supports the safe return from camps of more than 22,000 displaced persons, improves neighborhoods for 75,000 people, and finances tuition waivers for about 100,000 schoolchildren. Children continued to top the Bank’s human development agenda. Five million mothers, and children from birth to age 6, benefited from pro grams developed throughout Latin America under the Early Childhood Initiative: An Investment for Life. After two years of operation, the initiative has approved $400 million worth of projects, doubling the initial projected funding, and surpassed the original total commitment of $300 million for the period 2010–13. In fiscal 2012, several countries took out lines of credit as insurance against unforeseen economic circumstances and the risk of natural disas ters. El Salvador activated a $50 million line of financing after massive flooding left thousands of Salvadorians homeless and caused widespread damage. Improving Citizen Security Crime and violence are key development challenges throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. In parts of the region, this scourge has taken a steep toll on people and local economies. In Central America, for instance, 14,257 lives are claimed annually by crime—an average of 40 people per day—costing countries up to 8 percent of their GDP.
Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay
Peru St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname
Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay República Bolivariana de Venezuela
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The impact of crime and violence is so profound that experts fear de velopment can be set back many years as a consequence. This year, for the first time in the region, a CPS approved by the Board included a pillar on citizen security. The new CPS for Honduras, the country with the highest murder rate in the world, will support, among other things, the distribution of violence-prevention toolkits in at least 200 schools, as well as the implementation of a comprehensive security plan in at least 10 municipalities in the country’s center, north, and east regions. It will also help build institutional capacity against money laundering and an improved database for crime and violence. (See http://documents.world bank.org/curated/en/2011/11/15506299/honduras-countrypartnership-strategy-period-fy2012-2014.) The Bank has also contributed to addressing this issue by providing technical assistance to SICA (Central America Integration System) in devel oping the prevention pillar of the Central America Citizen Security Strategy and by convening key players from the private and public sectors to gen erate practical responses to the region’s increasingly lax security. (See http://worldbank.org/lac.)
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN REGIONAL SNAPSHOT Total population
0.6 billion
Population growth
1.1%
Life expectancy at birth
74 years
Infant mortality per 1,000 live births
18
Female youth literacy
97%
Number of people living with HIV/AIDS
1.7 million
2011 GNI per capita
$8,544
GDP per capita index (2000 = 100)
128
Note: Life expectancy at birth, infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births, and female youth literacy are for 2010; other indicators are for 2011 from the World Development Indicators database. HIV/AIDS data are from the 2012 UNAIDS report, “Together We Will End AIDS.”
TOTAL FISCAL 2012 TOTAL FISCAL 2012 New commitments IBRD $6,181 million IDA $448 million
Disbursements IBRD $6,726 million IDA $342 million
Portfolio of projects under implementation as of June 30, 2012: $33.2 billion
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Latin America and the Caribbean Results Highlights • The Rio Grande do Norte Rural Poverty Reduction Project in Brazil has helped 90,000 poor rural families, created 12,000 jobs, provided 53,000 families with access to water, and more than tripled the agricultural productivity of beneficiaries of joint water and productive investments. The project also created 2,100 com munity associations, which are improving the relationship be tween poor communities and state and local authorities. (See http://go.worldbank.org/3VC16UY3R0.) • In Honduras—one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to natural disasters—the Natural Disaster Mitigation Project helped improve the country’s capacity for managing disaster risk and reduced local disaster vulnerability in participating munici palities. The project improved the flood early warning systems for four of the main watersheds destroyed by Hurricane Mitch and helped complete structural mitigation measures in 58 munici palities, benefiting more than 500,000 people. (See http://go .worldbank.org/CKKYM2YDT0.)