In conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank in Paris, a series of background papers is now available on the IDB Internet home page. The papers are on the following subjects: Bank in brief, IDB and Europe, emergency financing to promote stability, social sectors, modernization of the state, private sector, cofinancing, financing reconstruction from natural disasters, bond issues, environmental protection, microenterprise, and culture and development.

To access the background papers, go to the IDB home page at http://www. iadb.org. Click on Annual Meeting and then on background papers.