In this book, policymakers, academics and market practitioners exchange views on the current economic situation, appropriate financial regulatory and supervisory standards, design of financial market institutions, and efficient safety nets for banks and other financial institutions. This volume...

This paper explores whether the level of financial integration of banks in a country increases the incidence of systemic banking crises. The paper uses a de facto proxy for financial integration based on network statistics of banks participating in the global market of interbank syndicated...

This technical paper investigates potential avenues for reducing economic losses resulting from natural hazards, and discusses ex ante and ex post issues affecting disaster risk management. It also assesses how both types of measures can be jointly used to reduce the economic impact of disasters...

This paper presents a retrospective review of several key areas of work of the Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Division (CMF) of the Inter-American Development Bank. Presented with each chapter as an independent piece, the paper analyzes the operations portfolio of CMF from 2006 to...

En octubre de 2003 el Comité de Presupuesto y Política Financiera (BUFIPOL) propuso al Directorio del Banco la aprobación de una nueva política de suficiencia de capital y metodología para el cálculo de cargos financieros para préstamos y garantías del capital ordinario. En dicho...

La presente evaluación (RE-293) tiene dos objetivos principales. En primer lugar, medir el grado de cumplimiento en el uso de los instrumentos de supervisión por parte de la Administración, informando en qué medida el sistema de supervisión de la ejecución de proyectos del Banco (SEP), fue...

El presente informe (RE-292) sintetiza la evaluación de OVE acerca de la política operativa del Banco relativa a desastres naturales e inesperados, OP-704, y abarca a dicha política (aprobada en 1998), el Plan de Acción del BID sobre desastres naturales (redactado en el 2000) y las...

The importance of having in place a financial regulatory framework that includes macro-prudential regulations was fully recognized during the recent global financial crisis. A central lesson from that episode was that relying on regulations that solely assessed the risks that financial...

In the course of the last few years, the Bank has assigned greater importance to the evaluation of the outcomes of its investments in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). This study on the Bank's lending program was conducted to examine project "evaluability," meaning the degree...

Significant investments are needed to support the global transition to a low-carbon, climate resilient future. Current finance flows fall short of global financing needs, and massive scaling up is needed to unlock additional financial resources and foster a sustainable investment pathway....