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...

De acuerdo con las directrices del Banco para la preparación de la Estrategia de País1 (EP), se requiere una evaluación de los principales factores de riesgo que podrían obstaculizar el logro de los objetivos de desarrollo del país. Las mencionadas directrices indican también que un insumo...

Information and communication technologies (ICT)--cell phones, computers, Internet--hold great promise but greater access alone cannot bring about economic development. This is a major finding of the IDB's latest edition of its flagship Development in the Americas series titled Development...

El objetivo de este informe (MIF/GN-78-11) consiste en presentar los resultados de la evaluación de la iniciativa adoptada por el FOMIN de prestar apoyo al desarrollo del capital de riesgo en la región. La presente evaluación tomó como punto de partida la experiencia internacional en cuanto...

The Office of Institutional Integrity (OII) began operations in January 2004. OII is the central body responsible for the Bank's internal anticorruption and integrity program. Its goals are to build widespread awareness of the rules and procedures of integrity programs; investigate credible...

This paper (RE-319) presents the evaluation of the Action Plan in support of private sector development in C&D Countries performed by the Office of Evaluation and Oversight. In this context, considering that the strategies for private sector development in C&D countries have been recently...

This inaugural issue of Microenterprise Development Review looks at some innovative examples of commercial microfinance from around Latin America and the Caribbean and examines the conditions that made them possible. This report addresses the changes in financial regulation, combined with a...