This publication takes a comprehensive view of all the action areas that need to be addressed in a coordinated and integrated manner to achieve sustainable development for all. The articles included herein deal with how to enhance the quality of life of the poor, how to enable all members of...

This report (MIF/GN-78-9) comprises the evaluation of MIF's projects supporting private participation in infrastructure performed by the Office of Evaluation and Oversight. The evaluation was initiated in 2002, covering four thematic groups of projects: Alternative Dispute Resolution (GN-78-2),...

This inaugural issue of Microenterprise Development Review looks at some innovative examples of commercial microfinance from around Latin America and the Caribbean and examines the conditions that made them possible. This report addresses the changes in financial regulation, combined with a...

This report consolidates the main findings and areas of opportunity identified in the evaluation of MIF activities conducted in 2002 and 2003, pursuant to the work plan approved by the Donors Committee (MIF/GN-78). The evaluation reviewed some 500 projects totaling US$800 million and covering...

El presente documento (MIF/GN-78-9) resume la evaluación del FOMIN sobre los proyectos de respaldo a la participación privada en la infraestructura. Al comienzo de sus operaciones, el FOMIN se subordinó al Banco para la definición y ejecución de proyectos de asistencia técnica. A medida...

This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) is an independent assessment of the effectiveness of the Bank's program with the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Bolivia) over the span 2008-2010. An essential consideration in a review of the development of the Bank's country strategy with Bolivia (BCS-BO)...

The infrastructure sector has been the recipient of a sustained lending effort by the IDB Group. Since 1994, when the Private Sector Department (PRI) was created, the Bank Group has approved loans and guarantees to 93 private projects in infrastructure, adding up to $3.9 billion. Since the...

The Bank's Competitiveness Strategy (GN-2243-1) establishes a framework to assist member countries to make improvements in their economic and institutional environments in order to promote the sustainable development of productive economic activities and increase productivity. Bank Group...

This is the latest version available of "Belize: A Private Sector Assessment". This document is an input to the IDB country strategy with Belize for the period 2008-2012. It describes Belize's growth, its private sector, economic policy framework, factors of production and physical...

This document presents the Opportunity for the Majority Development Initiative, which was launched in June 2006. Under the Initiative, the IDB is working with the private sector and civil society to support innovative, practical, market based solutions to persistent problems for the poor in...