The Sustainable Development Department's Social Development Division (SDS/SOC) assists the IDB by providing technical support to operations and by helping to identify and promote new opportunities for Bank action in social development that will accelerate growth and improve the well-being of...

This document (GN-2085-5) was favorably considered by the Bank's Board of Directors on March 12, 2001. The Sector Facility, in particular, will assist countries to take an integrated approach to reducing and managing their risk to natural hazards before a disastrous event through the following...

This Strategy (GN 2051-1) establishes guidelines for Bank support of vocational training programs, both as stand-alone activities and as part of other projects. The word training is quite broad and often ambiguous. In this report, it is used to refer to the preparation of workers and technicians...

This Annual Report details the Bank's activities in environment and natural resources during 2003. In 2003, the most significant development on the environment within the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) was the adoption of the new Environment Strategy in June. It is based on the...

Thirty paintings and sculptures from the National Museum of Bolivia, the Museum Arturo Borda, the National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore, the Marina Núñez del Prado Foundation, and the private collections of Mr. Fernando Romero and the BHN Foundation, and Mrs. Carmen Mazzi de...

This document provides general information about the Latin NCAP initiative which aims to provide consumers across the Latin American & Caribbean region with independent and impartial safety assessments of new cars; encourage manufacturers to improve the safety performance of the vehicles they...

This report provides a summary of the Business Climate Initiative actions and achievements in Latin America and the Caribbean for 2005. With the Business Climate Initiative, the IDB group is committed to assisting its member countries in the identification and removal of obstacles to the well...

One hundred graphic works by Pablo Picasso, from the collection of the Official Institute of Credit of Spain.Abstract: Un centenar de obras gráficas de Pablo Picasso, de la colección del Instituto Oficial de Crédito de España.

Da a conocer una exposición de más de 50 objetos artísticos y utilitarios que reflejan la creatividad popular y la influencia de las tradiciones indígenas en diferentes expresiones de la vida boliviana, tales como el arte textil, el uso de fibras vegetales, madera y plata, y las...

Thirty-eight works including drawings, photographs and paintings that illustrate the life and times of artist Pedro Figari in Montevideo, Uruguay; from Montevideo's National Library, the Juan Manuel Blanes Municipal Museum, the National Museum of Visual Arts, the National History Museum, as well...