This document surveys Bank lending operations designed to fight poverty and enhance social equity, with emphasis on recently approved projects with innovative components. It also surveys a broad range of poverty-related non-lending activities carried out by the Bank over the past two years. It...

The Initiative for Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA) was launched to work toward an enlarged South American economic space anchored in principles of sustainable, efficient, equitable development of the region. This report (RE-338) presents the findings of OVE's...

Het Rapport over de Achtste Kapitaalsverhoging van de Bank, goedgekeurd in 1994, vereist desystematische opname van inheemse kwesties in beleidslijnen en projecten van de Bank (document AB-1704, paragraaf 2.27). Deze nieuwe proactieve benadering complementeert de eerdere focus op hetvermijden of...

This content of this report, Operating Guidelines for Implementation of the Indigenous Peoples Policy (OP-765), instructs IDB Bank staff on how to apply the Indigenous Peoples Development Strategy (GN-2387-5). The Guidelines contain procedures for implementing the IPP, strategic measures for...

The main goal of this Strategy (GN-1894-7) is to promote faster progress in the reduction of poverty by tackling its root causes and fostering inclusion and greater social equity, as an essential element of development. It identifies the actions that the Bank should take to support the borrowing...

The Social Inclusion Trust Fund (the Fund), created in 2003 with support from the Royal Norwegian Foreign Ministry and Great Britain (DFID), is compelled at the end of its first three-year period, to review its accomplishments and the remaining challenges to the promotion of social inclusion...

En este número de Equidad se debaten la relación entre ética y desarrollo, y la necesidad de eliminar la corrupción en Latinoamérica; el impacto de la nueva economía basada en TI sobre la equidad en el mercado laboral y las implicaciones para las políticas públicas; la educación como...

This brochure describes the economic ties between Japan and Latin America, placing the Japanese trust funds in the context of meeting challenges in the region. This document describes the Japanese trust funds and provides examples of how these funds have created opportunities for people to build...

This report is comprised of both an Annual Report reviewing activities and projects supported between April 2004 and April 2005 and a cumulative review of the advances made and challenges being faced by the Fund in carrying out its objectives. A new policy initiative, the Special Line of...