Urban and rural local development projects share common goals with tourism insofar as they aim to improve the quality of life, the attractiveness of locales and to increase economic opportunities and incomes for residents. In Santa Rosa de Copan a World Bank financed project has reinforced links...

This is the second of two articles that draw on the results of recent studies of the links between financial services and low income communities in Latin America. While the focus remains on the nature and inherent costs of financial exclusion for the unbanked -- those without basic deposit and...

The trend toward new tourism niches in Latin America and the Caribbean (hereafter, LAC) has brought benefits, but also costs to the region's indigenous peoples. As the World Bank social and environmental portfolios in LAC reveal, work with indigenous groups has frequently favored tourism as a...