This publication brings together a selection of recent work from the Inter-American Development Bank on development issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through publications, seminars, events, policy dialogues, blogs and databases, IDB provides research and insight into some of the most...

En esta edición de IDEA se analizan los escenarios más probables que tiene por delante América Latina, junto con recomendaciones de políticas y los programas multilaterales de apoyo disponibles para hacer frente a la crisis mundial. Dada una crisis financiera en la que la liquidez fue un...

Since 2001, the Latin American and Caribbean Macro Watch (LMW) has been a key source of independent macroeconomic analysis for regional monitoring and forecasts. Data is organized at the global, sub-regional, and country level, the latter typically divided into economic activity and employment,...

The Bank has put more emphasis both on ensuring the quality of its economic analysis and on optimizing its performance in terms of results. In keeping with this shift, OVE took on the task of evaluating the quality of economic analysis. To do so, it developed an instrument that established a...

During the last decade, the IDB has strongly promoted an agenda to increase its capacity to report on results, with a particular focus on project evaluability. The first pilot exercise to validate the Development Effectiveness Matrix (DEM) of randomly selected projects began in October 2011. The...

Para América Latina, China es un modelo posible de crecimiento, un mercado potencial y un competidor. El BID organizó un Grupo de Investigación compuesto por miembros de los departamentos de integración e investigación para estudiar los roles de esta poderosa economía emergente y para...

Given the contributions of the Development Effectiveness Matrix (DEM) and the self-evaluation system of evaluability, OVE can now move away from a wholly separate system of reviewing project evaluability (as was done in 2001, 2005, and 2009). OVE can move towards a system of continuous...

Fund managers in Latin America confront limitations in legal and regulatory frameworks that discourage risk capital investment. Although macroeconomic and market factors play an integral role, legal framework will also help promote financing through risk capital in Latin America and the Caribbean.