This report concentrates on the potential for biotechnology research to benefit consumers and producers of food in Latin America and the Caribbean. Its objective is to provide general guidance to IDB lending for agriculture development. The study includes policy suggestions regarding...

The Bank has developed and implemented several initiatives to reduce poverty and to improve rural competitiveness during the past decade. This document updates and establishes operational principles to guide action in this area so that the stated goals of the Mandate can be effectively achieved....

This document identifies priorities for Bank action in the sector to guide the allocation of resources in support of the strategic elements and objectives it describes. The paper aims to facilitate the preparation of loans and technical cooperation programs and to improve their quality, building...

Poverty has a high social cost for countries of the region: it negatively affects all aspects of society because of migration to the cities, destabilizing political consequences, and the pressures that poverty exerts on the environment. This book looks for new ways to alleviate rural poverty,...

Study on the characteristics of the remittance flow to Ecuador, the transfer of Remittances and the Banking System

Study on the characteristics of the remittance flow to Ecuador, the transfer of Remittances and the Banking System

Transnational communities linking homes and countries, development, family remittances, tourism, transportation, telecommunication, and nostalgic trade

Transnational communities linking homes and countries, development, family remittances, tourism, transportation, telecommunication, and nostalgic trade