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...

Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at the firm level. The paper focuses on how the...

This paper documents the relationship between regional financial development and firm growth in the Peruvian manufacturing sector. In order to control for mutual causality between credit availability and firm growth, industry differences in financial dependence on external funds are exploited....

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...

A questão das comunidades brasileiras no exterior não é nova para o Ministério das Relações Exteriores. Desde a década de 1980, premidos pela crise econômica que se abateu sobre o Brasil, milhares de nossos compatriotas tomaram o caminho do exterior, em busca de oportunidades de melhoria...

Primeira etapa - Características sociais e demográficas dos brasileiros que enviam dinheiro para o Brasil (MA); 1.Condições, valores, periodicidade e objetivos do dinheiro enviado (Boston); 2. Impacto das remessas nas famílias que ficaram (GV) Segunda etapa - Estrutura e funcionamento das...

This report discusses ProFund's accomplishments and performance by examining its original business plan relative to its performance, the composition of its portfolio, and its primary role with respect to its investors and investees.

This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the 3rd Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on May 23rd and 24th, 2002. This presentation evaluates the direct impact of microcredit programs on the micro entrepreneurs and...