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WASHINGTON - The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has announced the winners of the 2025 IDB Young Economist Award, an annual recognition that celebrates outstanding research by recent PhD graduates in economics focused on Latin America and the Caribbean. Pascuel Plotkin, an Argentine researcher...

Five entrepreneurs will present their solutions on December 2 at GET Forum, the IDB Group’s flagship event on innovation and technology for development. WASHINGTON – IDB Lab, the innovation and venture capital arm of the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB Group), has announced the five women...

New report shows climate financing by multilateral development banks rose 10% in 2024 compared with previous year. MDBs’ climate finance for low- and middle-income economies increased 14%, to more than $85 billion. Mobilized private financing for climate investments worldwide jumped 33% in 2024. Global...

At the Regional Security and Justice Summit, the Inter-American Development Bank presented a new phase of the Alliance for Security, Justice, and Development, with a historic increase in the scale of its operations.

BELIZE CITY, Belize – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is supporting Belize’s efforts to increase labor force participation and improve employability through a financing package of US$8 million.The operation will support a program that aims to address the country’s skilled labor shortage by...

WASHINGTON — The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $250 million loan to help Guatemala enhance the environment of the Motagua River Basin and the quality of life of its residents. The operation, which has been approved by the IDB's Board of Executive Directors, will finance a...