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The following operations were approved in recent weeks by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the
Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) and the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF).
Argentina
A $100 million IDB loan to support primary health care reform in three Argentine provinces . A $33.1 million IDB loan from the ordinary capital and a $40.7 million syndicated loan to help finance a road and toll bridge across the Paraná River. The bridge, which will be operated by a private company under a concession, will connect the city of Rosario in Santa Fé province with Victoria, in Entre Ríos. A $3,687,000 MIF grant to help develop a national system of labor skills certification. Belize Bolivia A $2.7 million IDB soft loan from the Fund for Special Operations to finance civil society projects to improve access to justice among the poor. A $20
million IIC loan and a $15 million loan to Banco Bisa S.A. to provide small and medium-sized companies in the industrial,
agribusiness, and service sectors with medium-term financing for expansion, purchase of machinery, equipment, and working
capital. A $146 million IDB loan to the state of Bahia to improve the road network through paving, rehabilitation, maintenance, and administrative modernization. A $50 million IDB loan from the ordinary capital and a $45.9 million syndicated loan to a private sector concessionaire for the construction, rehabilitation, operation and maintenance of a toll road system to link the cities of São Paulo, Jundiaí, Campinas and Limeira. An $841,000 MIF grant to strengthen labor dispute negotiation and mediation processes.
Honduras Mexico A $48.8 million IDB loan from the ordinary capital and two syndicated loans for a combined total of $86.8 million to Fuerza y Energía de Hermosillo, S.A. de C.V., to support the development of a private sector 250 megawatt combined cycle natural gas power plant. Nicaragua Perú A $10 million IIC loan and a $20 million loan under the IIC’s cofinancing program to Banco Internacional del Perú to provide small and medium-sized companies with medium- and long-term debt and leasing financing. An $842,400 MIF grant to support the development of small and medium-sized businesses. Trinidad and Tobago
A $900,000 MIF grant to increase the effectiveness of the utilities sector by establishing the appropriate legal, regulatory and institutional framework to make the Regulated Industries Commission fully operational. Uruguay A $1,266,000 MIF grant to help establish a business development center. Venezuela Regional A $998,000 grant from the Japan Special Fund to strengthen the
capacity of Latin American and Caribbean nations to reduce the harmful social and economic effects of the periodic El Niño
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