This study is an input to the Inter-American Development Bank's regional strategy to improve access to credit for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Latin America region. The core of this strategy is a reform of secure lending on the basis of movable collaterals that will allow SMEs to...

This evaluation reviews the relevance, efficiency and effectiveness of the IDB's Program with Ecuador for 2007-2011. The period was characterized by an important political and institutional shift in Ecuador, embodied in the new Constitution of September 2008. Working within the framework...

This Country Program Evaluation (RE-380-1) covers the period 2006 to 2010. The document is organized in chapters as follows: Program Context; The Program with the Bank; Country Program Results; Delivery of the Program; Main Risks for the New Program; and Conclusions and Recommendations....

This brochure describes the IDB's history with Korea, the second Asian nation to become a member country and provides information about the trust funds established through this partnership. This document provides an overview of the types of projects the funds have supported as well as the types...

This brochure provides a brief summary of the purpose, history, structure and operations of the IDB. The IDB is the largest source of multilateral development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. Established in 1959, the IDB promotes the economic and social development of the region...

Esta edición de Microempresas incluye dos artículos principales. En el primero se describe cómo los bancos tradicionales de América Latina y el Caribe están incluyendo a las personas de bajos recursos en su cartera de clientes. Ofrece asimismo estudios de caso de México y Brasil, seguido...

In 2000, the fourth year of the IDB's five-year Microenterprise Development Strategy (1997-2001), the Bank supported a range of efforts to help increase the incomes and productivity of urban and rural microentreprenuers in 26 Latin American and Caribbean countries. In these efforts, IDB...

En la presente edición de Microempresa se examina el uso del arrendamiento financiero en las microfinanzas, un instrumento aún inexplorado en América Latina y el Caribe. También se analiza el uso de las concentraciones empresariales, aglomeraciones o clusters, para la mejora de la...

This issue of MicroEnterprise Americas presents examples of successful inclusion of microenterprises in value chains. The articles highlight how strategies to promote and organize joint actions among smaller producers have been implemented, so that these producers can compete on the level of...

The report summarizes the Corporation's main achievements and key milestones over the course of 2012.Abstract: El informe contiene un resumen de los principales logros de la Corporación durante 2012 y de los hechos más destacados ocurridos durante el año.Abstract: Le rapport présente un...