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The year 2008 represents an important historical milestone. For the first time, over half of the world's population 3.3 billion people live in urban areas. This significant increase in urban population has resulted from both natural population growth and rural to urban migration. It is important...
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The Bank has prepared a new set of strategies, presented in this volume, for the two overarching objectives established (Sustainable Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction and Promotion of Social Equity) and for each of the four priority areas highlighted in the Institutional Strategy...
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This report compressed the results of a four-month initiative to identify unmet needs and market opportunities in Colombia, El Salvador, Brazil and Mexico, and present a potential private sector solutions that can address these unmet needs profitably.
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This document is the Final Report prepared by the National Center for the Environment (CENMA) of the University of Chile for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to comply with number 5. of the Letter of Agreement signed by both institutions to specified the conditions under which the...
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This document discusses the basics on microfranchising. It reviews the concept and key elements, lessons learned from other regions, including the Grameen Bank. Finally, an agenda for the development of FOMIN microfranchising support is presented.
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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...
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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...
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This Annual Report details the Bank's activities in environment and natural resources during 2003. In 2003, the most significant development on the environment within the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) was the adoption of the new Environment Strategy in June. It is based on the...
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This Annual Report 2008: A Year in Review contains a review of the Bank's operations in 2008, loans, guarantees and grants, and in a separate volume, Management's Discussion and Analysis: Ordinary Capital; the financial statements of the Bank; and general appendices. The IDB's response to the...
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This Strategy for Indigenous Development and its companion Operational Policy on Indigenous Peoples seek to enhance the Bank's contribution to the development with identity of indigenous peoples by setting targets and specific priority areas for Bank action. The Strategy is a medium term...
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