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The impact of food crisis on poverty
More than 26 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean could fall into extreme poverty if food prices remain high, according to a recent IDB study. Countries need to expand investment in social protection programs to prevent food crisis from deepening poverty, researchers said. The recent released numbers by the Inter-American Development Bank show the impact of crisis on poverty and government spending. > Read more

Highway connects highly-populated economic centers
A US$100 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank to Brazil will help expand the capacity of its Florianopolis-Osorio highway in the Mercosur corridor. The roadway is a major truck artery transporting goods between Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. > Read more

Expanding access to Mexican capital markets
The IDB will establish its first capital markets guarantee facility in Mexico to assist local corporations seeking access to Mexican institutional investors in order to issue domestic debt on more competitive terms. > Read more

Headlines
Arts of the Dominican Republic
Grants for cultural projects
Promoting the “Norte Grande”
A better transportation system
Promoting gender equality
Indian anti-poverty model
Ethanol projects in Brazil
$850 million to Costa Rica
Call for proposals in knowledge
Documents
Code of Ethics (pdf)
2007 Integrity Report (pdf)
2007 Annual Report
Operational Framework for Lending in Local Currency (pdf)
Taxation and Latin America (pdf)
Outsiders? - IPES 2008
Blueprint for Green Energy (pdf)
Fourth Annual Western Hemisphere Energy Security and Cooperation Forum  
September 9
XI Inter-American Forum on Microenterprise
October 8-10
VIII Annual IDB-Civil Society Meeting, Montevideo, Uruguay
October 17-18
 
 
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