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Upgrading slums in Brazil - where more can be done more efficiently

September 05, 2012
IDB study discusses critical factors in urban housing policies, based on programs conducted in seven Brazilian cities over the past ten years

With IDB support, Uruguay combats violent crime

September 04, 2012
A $5 million loan for a program targeting high-crime areas in Montevideo A $5 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will help Uruguay deploy a program based on a comprehensive approach to reduce violent crime in its capital city, Montevideo. The program is aimed at increasing police effectiveness in preventing and solving crimes as well as at fostering the social reinsertion of at-risk youth.

IDB approves $60 million to help 40,000 youth in slums in Rio de Janeiro State cleared of drug-trafficking gangs

September 04, 2012
Goal is to reduce early pregnancies and truancy and to prepare young people for the labor market  The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a loan to support a Rio de Janeiro State program to integrate into society 40,000 young people who live in favelas cleared of drug-trafficking gangs. 

Guatemala to strengthen fiscal management with IDB financing

August 31, 2012
The program will support reforms to generate more tax revenues and regulate national and municipal debt Guatemala will receive $237.2 million in financing from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to consolidate fiscal management and sustainability by supporting reforms that will help increase tax revenues, strengthen tax administration, and regulate national and municipal debt.

IDB approves $76 million loan to finance 74-MW wind farm in Mexico’s Oaxaca

August 29, 2012
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a loan of up to $76 million to Impulsora Nacional de Electricidad S. de R. L. de C.V., a subsidiary of Enel Green Power SpA, to support its investment in a 74-megawatt (MW) wind farm in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in the Mexican State of Oaxaca. The wind farm, known as Bii Nee Stipa II, is Enel Green Power’s first wind farm in Mexico.