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Expanding financing for housing
The IDB has approved a six-year US$50 million loan to Banco Pichincha, Ecuador’s leading commercial bank, to expand financing for housing, small businesses and microenterprises. “This operation will help us pursue one of our strategic goals, to bring new and better products to lower income groups who have traditionally had less access to formal financial services,” said Banco Pichincha General Manager Fernando Pozo. > Read more

Call for proposals to facilitate remittances
Grants of up to $250,000 per project will be awarded to institutions participating in a call for proposals to promote remittance systems and investment channels. > Read more

Small companies' keys to high growth
Six case studies of small and medium enterprises in Brazil, Chile and Mexico, show key common factors that have allowed some businesses to thrive, providing insight and ideas for policy making. > Read more

An overall score, from 0-100, where 100=best, is calculated from the weighted mean of three category scores: Regulatory framework, investment climate and institutional development.
Headlines
Local-currency financing
US$27 million for Haiti
Better urban environment
IDB offers training in trade finance
Improving Transantiago
Measuring integrity
Documents
2007 Integrity Report (pdf)
2007 Annual Report
Code of Ethics (pdf)
Operational Framework for Lending in Local Currency (pdf)
Taxation and Latin America (pdf)
Outsiders? - IPES 2008
Blueprint for Green Energy (pdf)
Events
Fourth Annual Meeting of LAC Debt Group
Trinidad and Tobago
May 14 - 16
Business Seminar on Capital Markets and Financial Instruments for Development
June 24
 
 
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