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Responding to the Caribbean food crisis
At the 29th Annual Meeting of the CARICOM Heads of Government Conference, July 1-4, IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno said that rising food and oil prices are hitting the Caribbean more than any other region in the Western Hemisphere. But he said that the IDB and the Caribbean Development Bank are studying ways of reducing food prices in the region through an in-depth assessment of cost structures and options for strengthening regional food production clusters. >Read more

Promoting capital market financing in Peru
The IDB’s Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) and the Lima Stock Exchange (BVL) have launched a program to encourage mid-size companies to access the Peruvian capital market through the stock exchange. > Read more

Promoting entrepreneurship and employment
A Uruguayan non-profit organization will receive US$600,000 to promote entrepreneurship and employment for youth and women in poor neighborhoods in Montevideo. > Read more

The figures analyzed represent the results of surveys of private sector actors conducted by the central banks of the each country according to their own specific methodologies. They do not represent official projections by the IDB or any other official body.

Headlines
	Favored local currencies
	IDB signs Peru LNG project
	Boosting employment
	Report on climate change
	Haiti secures Canadian grant
	Equity in primary education
	Microenterprise awards

Documents
	Code of Ethics (pdf)
	2007 Integrity Report (pdf)
	2007 Annual Report
	Operational Framework for Lending in Local Currency (pdf)
	Taxation and Latin America (pdf)
	Outsiders? - IPES 2008
	Blueprint for Green Energy (pdf)

Events
	Business Seminar on Education, Health, Social Protection and Science and Technology July 11
	XI Inter-American Forum on Microenterprise October 8-10