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Remittances: Moderate Growth

Remittances to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean will reach a historic high in 2024 despite growing at their slowest pace in 10 years, a new IDB report says.

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The Bahamas Enhances Ocean Conservation

The Bahamas, with support from an IDB-backed debt conversion project, will generate fiscal savings to fund critical ocean conservation and management initiatives.

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Modernizing Civil Service

New report provides a detailed overview of challenges facing civil servants in Latin America and the Caribbean and proposes a roadmap for building a more efficient, inclusive and resilient civil service.

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Support for Key Policies in Argentina

Four IDB operations will support fiscal sustainability and the recovery of sustainable and equitable growth in Argentina.

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Barbados Launched the World's First Debt-for-Climate-Resilience Operation
·    The deal generated US$125 million in fiscal savings which will be channeled into new resilience investments.·    The debt conversion represents innovative financing model for climate adaptation that avoids increasing the burden of public debt. Barbados has successfully completed an unprecedented...
December 02, 2024
Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean Moderate Their Growth in 2024
A new report from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) projects that remittances to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean will reach a historic high in 2024 despite growing at their slowest pace in 10 years and returning to levels of increase prior to the exceptional growth they showed...
November 28, 2024
Bahamas to Upgrade Potable Water Supply and Sanitation Services with IDB Support
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a Conditional Credit Line for Investment Projects (CCLIP) of US$100 million and a first individual loan of US$50 million under this credit line to upgrade potable water supply and sanitation services in the Bahamas. The program approved by the IDB's...
November 27, 2024
Paraguay to Expand Sanitation in Lake Ypacaraí Watershed to Improve Environment
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $154 million loan and $7.7 million grant from the IDB CLIMA program for a first round of construction under the Comprehensive Sanitation Plan for the Lake Ypacaraí Watershed in Paraguay. This project will improve environmental conditions in...
November 27, 2024
IDB Study Charts Progress on Professionalizing and Modernizing Civil Service in Latin America and Caribbean
•    Better Government for Better Lives surveys advances in 19 countries in the region between 2014 in 2024. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) today presented Better Government for Better Lives, a comprehensive study that compiles data from the past 10 years on the professionalization and...
November 27, 2024
Mercosur Digital Citizen” Initiative to Enhance Service Delivery and Simplify Procedures
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Inter-American Network on Digital Government  (GEALC Network) today unveiled Mercosur Digital Citizen, an initiative that will allow citizens of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay to use their national digital ID to carry out government...
November 26, 2024
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Ilan Goldfajn, president of the IDB: "Society is increasingly impatient with inequalities" (only in Spanish)

El País

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Triple opportunity could transform Latin America’s fortunes, bank head says

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Rethinking Inequality in Latin America (by Ana María Ibáñez)

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