This document presents the proceedings of a one-day Workshop on Investing in Biodiversity Conservation held at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C., on October 28, 1996. The first part of the workshop was dedicated to the presentation of key topics on biodiversity financing by...

The key question the research in this paper tries to answer is whether those four activities truly represent a viable economic alternative in Latin America's environmentally fragile hinterlands. Several cases in each line of activity are analyzed to determine the level and distribution of the...

This paper explores options for supporting the Government of Suriname's Green Vision and Strategy, with its corresponding policies and activities, as input for the Bank's 2011-2014 Country Strategy. It briefly describes Suriname's salient environmental and social characteristics and its major...