This report provides a summary of the Business Climate Initiative actions and achievements in Latin America and the Caribbean for 2005. With the Business Climate Initiative, the IDB group is committed to assisting its member countries in the identification and removal of obstacles to the well...

This issue of MicroEnterprise Americas explores the various issues and challenges of extending economic opportunities to all. The Special Section of the magazine focuses on access to markets, which most microenterprises characterize as the single most important challenge they face after access...

This issue of MicroEnterprise Americas features a series of articles including topics such as how communication and information technology is fostering growth in the microcredit industry; the role of the State as governments are responding to persistent high rates of unemployment and lack of...