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CMF in Review: 2006-2011
Hooten, Christopher; Pietrobelli, Carlo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
analyzes the operations portfolio of CMF from 2006 to 2011 drawing on a unique classification system developed in conjunction … Institutions Division (CMF) of the Inter-American Development Bank. Presented with each chapter as an independent piece, the paper … with the Division's internal Operations and Project Database. The goal of this database and paper is to move beyond the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654240
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The Multilateral Investment Fund in 2010: Expanding Access to Finance, Markets, Capabilities and Basic Services in Latin America and the Caribbean
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2011
-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and low-income populations in the region. Building on the key success drivers that allowed the MIF to achieve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672735
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Microfinance: From Village to Wall Street?
Jansson, Tor - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001
This paper presents a synopsis of the current state of the microfinance industry in Latin America. It provides a rough assessment of the achievement and outreach of the industry; it offers revealing information on the financial performance of 20 microfinance institutions; and it outlines some of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009324024
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The City Government of Rio de Janeiro's Policy to Support Self-Employed and Microenterprises
Urani, André - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999
This document describes the efforts of the Department of Labor of Rio de Janeiro to build a comprehensive institutional framework focused on the promotion of a long run, micro-firm based local economic development model and to create a path to sustainable economic growth, job creation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291862
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Can Financial Market Policies Reduce Income Inequality?
Westley, Glenn D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001
This paper marshals substantial arguments and data to support the contention that improving the access of micro and small enterprises to financial services could have an important salutary impact on a country's income distribution. To demonstrate this, the paper shows first that many poor own or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320046
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Promoting Growth with Equity: The Inter-American Development Bank and Microenterprise Title: Promoviendo crecimiento con equidad: El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo y la microem...
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American …; … - 1998
Today over 80 percent of the businesses in Latin America and the Caribbean have 10 employees or less and, depending on the country, they provide between 30 and 80 percent of employment. Yet, in spite of this new empowering view of microenterprises--as a means for the poor to earn their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009206054
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Private Sector Development Strategy: Fostering Development through the Private Sector
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2011
This strategy document, which was expanded and edited based on comments received through the two periods of the public consultation process, lays out a diagnosis of the key challenges facing development through the private sector and proposes five general areas for IDB intervention. Given the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010673744
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Group Support to the Microenterprise Sector: (1990-2000)
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2001
The IDB Group, guided by its Strategy for Microenterprise Development, has made the creation of a sustainable market of services to the sector one of its most important priorities during the past decade. This report presents an overview of the contributions the IDB has made to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291848
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Evaluación de las operaciones de crédito global multisectorial del Banco 1990 a 2005 Title: Evaluation of the Bank's Global Multisector Credit Operations: 1990 to 2005
Inter-American Development Bank; Banco Interamericano …; … - 2007
El Banco define las operaciones de crédito global multisectorial (GMC) como préstamos con garantías soberanas concedidos a instituciones financieras intermediarias o entidades similares, con el objeto de que éstas concedan créditos a subprestatarios finales para el financiamiento de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010674015
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The Latin American Microfinance Industry: How Does it Measure Up?
Jansson, Tor; Taborga, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
This publication aims to help donors, creditors and investors evaluate the performance, condition and risk of individual microfinance institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean, in hopes of strengthening the microfinance industry and building the microenterprise sector. It provides concrete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291855