Summary

The 2007 loans and guarantees approved by the Bank and cumulative totals, as of December 31, 2007, less cancellations, came from the following sources:

Ordinary Capital (OC): 89 loans for $7.7 billion and 16 guarantees for $1.1 billion brought the cumulative total of loans to 1,946 for $133.6 billion and the cumulative number of guarantees to 46 totaling $2.1 billion.

Fund for Special Operations (FSO): 19 loans totaling $152 million brought the cumulative total of loans to 1,216 for $18.5 billion.

Other funds: There were three loans approved in 2007. Cumulative total loans were 213 for $1.8 billion.

Total Cost of Projects

The $9 billion in Bank loans and guarantees approved in 2007 will help to finance projects involving a total investment of more than $18.3 billion. The Bank’s loans cover only a part of the total cost of the projects being carried out by the borrowing countries. The balance comes principally from the Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Disbursements

The Bank’s disbursements on approved loans amounted to $7.1 billion in 2007, compared with $6.5 billion in 2006. As of December 31, 2007, cumulative disbursements, including exchange adjustments, totaled $135.6 billion, or 88 percent of the loan amounts approved by the Bank. The 2007 disbursements and cumulative totals as of December 31, 2007 by funds include

Ordinary Capital: $6.7 billion, bringing the cumulative total to $117.2 billion.

Fund for Special Operations: $393 million, bringing the cumulative total to $16.7 billion.

Other funds: $6.3 million, bringing the cumulative total from funds administered by the Bank to $1.7 billion.

Repayments

Loan repayments amounted to $5.6 billion in 2007. Cumulative payments as of December 31, 2007, were $75.7 billion. Repayments received by the Bank during the year, and cumulative as of December 31, 2007, were as follows:

Ordinary Capital: $5.3 billion, bringing the cumulative total, before repayments to participants, to $66.2 billion.

Fund for Special Operations: $275 million, for a cumulative total of $7.9 billion.

Other funds: $4.3 million, bringing the cumulative total to $1.6 billion. Information on IDB projects is available at www. iadb.org/projects/.