Empowering Local Governments
A new initiative will enable cities, states, and regions to directly tap into a $1 billion financing line for development projects.
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Advancing Strategic Reforms
The IDB and OECD are deepening their collaboration to support Latin American and Caribbean countries on their path to OECD membership and drive forward essential economic and institutional reforms.
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Ecuador Tackles Organized Crime
New IDB loan will strengthen the country’s institutional capacity to prevent and tackle criminal violence and illicit financial flows.
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SEVILLE – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Bank launched a new platform to help countries and institutions raise private capital for sustainable development in the Amazonia region—combining environmental protection with economic and social impact.
The platform is grounded on...
SEVILLE – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) today launched FX EDGE, a new platform to help countries attract more private investment in sustainable development.
Designed to provide tools to policymakers—a blended finance and project preparation facility, a liquidity facility and an FX...
SEVILLE - The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and IDB Invest are scaling up financial solutions to help countries and companies manage disaster-related risks and strengthen long-term resilience. This expansion includes an increase in disaster risk coverage and new instruments for both...
SEVILLE – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Education Above All (EAA) Foundation signed a new agreement to strengthen collaboration and explore new areas of joint work in education, skills development, and economic empowerment, including employment and self-employment initiatives.
The...
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) signed today in Paris, in the margins of the meeting of the Heads of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) Group, a landmark €500 million Exposure Exchange Agreement (EEA). This is the first transaction...
Joint Statement PARIS – The Heads of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) met today in Paris, hosted by the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB), which currently chairs the Heads of MDBs Group. The meeting focused on advancing their joint efforts to address development priorities.Amid rising...
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