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Oct 31, 2023 · The IDB’s primary goals are promoting social inclusion and equality, boosting productivity and innovation, and strengthening regional economic integration.
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Feb 26, 2024 · MDBs often work in areas where other banks do not, and with unique cost conditions, pursuing an agenda that generates positive impacts. The IDB alone has an active credit portfolio of $9.6 billion in Brazil, with a further $2.7 billion in the pipeline. In addition to the IDB, the MDBs and the RDBs include the following institutions: the World ...
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The IDB has 26 borrowing member countries, all located in Latin America and the Caribbean. Together, they own the Bank's available capital and hold just over 50% of voting power. Since the IDB's Ninth General Capital Increase (IDB-9), in 2010, the Bank has allocated at least 35% of its annual loan approvals to borrowing member countries ...
See more. Institutions for Development Sector (IFD) conceptualizes, prepares, supports the execution and supervises the IDB’s operations on governance, public sector strengthening and reform.
- Membership and Structure
- Resources and Programs
- Social Development
- Private Sector Development
- Policy-Based Lending
- State Modernization
- Environmental Preservation
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
The IDB is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and has forty-seven member nations. Twenty-six of these nations are from Latin America and the Caribbean and are eligible to borrow from the bank. The remaining countries are non-borrowing members from North America, Europe, and East Asia. The highest policy-making body of the IDB is its Board of Govern...
The IDB obtains its resources from a number of different sources. Member countries are assessed an annual subscription that is calculated to reflect the relative size of each nation's economy. Member countries are required to pay only a small fraction (4.3 percent in 2007) of the subscription. The remainder is considered "callable capital" in which...
Accelerating the social development of Latin America is the preeminent objective of the IDB's lending strategy. The bank has long worked to meet the basic needs of poor communities throughout the region. Under the bank's mandate, lending for poverty reduction and social equity must reach at least 40 percent of total resource allocations and at leas...
Private sectordevelopment has also been a longstanding objective of the IDB. A number of bank projects and programs have been designed to create an enabling environment for private businesses. This, it is argued, helps generate economic growth, higher living standards, and the ability to compete in the global economy. The bank's Private Sector Depa...
Since the 1990s the IDB has become much more directly engaged in the promotion of macroeconomic policy reforms in member countries. This is a response to the continued economic difficulties that many of these countries have experienced, including chronic budget deficits, deteriorating foreign reserves, and debilitating external debts. The bank has ...
Since the mid-1990s, the IDB has become engaged in the promotion of public sector reform in Latin America. This also represents a departure from past practices. The bank traditionally focused on supporting social and economic projects and avoided interference in the internal political affairs of member countries. In the early twenty-first century, ...
The IDB is placing greater emphasis on the preservation of natural environments in Latin America. New projects and programs have been formulated to ensure sustainable resource management and conservation. The bank established an Environmental Protection Division to oversee its work in this area and has incorporated environmental impact assessments ...
The Inter-American Development Bank plays an important role in the social and economic progress of Latin America and the Caribbean. The bank has consistently supported public sector projects and programs to help meet the basic needs of the region's poor. The IDB channels a large share of its resources to the poorest communities in the poorest count...
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Transforming for Greater Impact and Scale. We have a new approach that unifies and focuses the work of the IDB, IDB Invest and IDB Lab under one goal: we will ramp up the impact and scale of the results we achieve for the countries and people of Latin America and the Caribbean – and by extension, the world. Three transformations make us not ...
within the IDB and with clients; it should be considered as a working document. This framework forms the basis of the IDB Group working definition of sustainable infrastructure as “infrastructure projects that are planned, designed, constructed, operated, and decommissioned in a manner to ensure economic and financial, social, environmental
