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...

This document summarizes the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) experience as one of the main sources of multilateral development financing in Latin America and the Caribbean. From 2000 to 2005, total financing for economic, social and institutional development projects amounted to US$38.7...

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 features the case of the Société Générale Haitïenne de Solidarité (SOGESOL) which is a non-Bank Financial Institution whose Institutional mission is to promote Haitian micro-entrepreneurship, to adapt traditional banking services to the micro-entrepreneurs needs, to...

This paper represents one of the first comparative analyses of experiences of integrated supervision. It discusses how several countries around the world have developed the processes of integrating financial regulation and supervision, and covers numerous relevant technical issues as well as the...

As the MFI industry matures, the necessity of dealing with foreign exchange risk becomes more urgent. Identifying possible solutions to foreign currency risk before they become a critical priority will give MFIs more options in the future.

Success of MFIs in Latin America depends on: adopting technologies in delivery channels like ATMs and PDAs; successfully implementing virtual delivery channels like mobile finance and remote transaction systems; and cooperation among MFIs to reduce IT investment cost and increase standardization.

The literature on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) finance highlights linkages with large firms in value chains as a possible way to enhance access to credit. However, much of the literature on value chains emphasizes issues of coordination and governance of those linkages and their...

IDB Group involvement and support in the reform, modernization and deepening of financial markets in Latin America and the Caribbean targets banking intermediation, capital markets, insurance markets, pension systems, housing finance, and debt reduction.