Feb 2022
The 2021 Annual Business Review (ABR) provides an overview of the IDB's performance on sovereign-guaranteed outputs and lending program priorities. The ABR identifies trend deviations from IDB…
Jan 2022
The objectives of this analysis are twofold: (i) First, it aims to enhance our understanding of the role design and execution characteristics of IDB financed projects play in project success and…
Jul 2021
By analyzing a novel dataset on publications by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), we shed light on the extent to which the knowledge production of a multilateral development bank can reach…
Mar 2021
The 2020 Annual Business Review (ABR) provides an overview of the IDB's performance on sovereign-guaranteed outputs and lending program priorities. The ABR identifies trend deviations from IDB…
Apr 2020
The Corporate Results Framework (CRF) is the IDB Group's highest-level tool for monitoring performance and achievement of its strategic objectives. It serves important functions of both…
Apr 2020
El Marco de Resultados Corporativos (CRF) es la herramienta de más alto nivel con la que cuenta el Grupo BID para monitorear el desempeño y alcance de sus objetivos estratégicos. El CRF cumple una…
Jan 2020
This paper investigates the co-movement of sovereign lending from multilateral development banks (MDBs) and private creditors with government expenditure. The paper finds that multilateral sovereign…
Dec 2018
Guarantees are powerful tools to scale up private investment in infrastructure and enhance the catalytic role Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) play in mobilizing private resources to bridge the…
Nov 2018
Fiscal policy is procyclical in developing countries. An ample literature has explained this fact and explored its consequences for aggregate cyclical fluctuations. Multilateral Development Banks (…
Sep 2018
In this paper we assess whether multilateral lending mobilize private capital inflows. We find evidence of positive significant mobilization effects of multilateral lending on the number of deals and on…
Feb 2018
Risk mitigation instruments such as guarantees are attractive options for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals because they provide a way for multilateral development banks (…
Nov 2017
The 2016 IDB External Feedback System (EFS) captured perceptions from 5,483 client and partners surveyed during 2016 from government, civil society, public, and private sectors. These perspectives,…
Nov 2017
El Sistema de Retroalimentación Externa (EFS por sus siglas en inglés) 2016 del BID capturó durante el 2016 las percepciones de 5,483 clients y socios encuestados del gobierno, la sociedad civil, el…
Sep 2017
This study aims at showing how the effects of productive credit to rural producers in Mexico can be estimated by exploiting the characteristics of the loan approval process, using a regression…
Aug 2017
The Global Infrastructure Forum (GIForum) is the flagship event on collaborative financing for infrastructure development in support of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. This…
Apr 2017
Closing the world's infrastructure gap would take $1 to $1.5 trillion annually. The Global Infrastructure Forum aims to discuss opportunities to harness public and private resources to close…
Oct 2015
The Institutional Strategy serves as a roadmap for the IDB Group's work, charting a path toward sustainable economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Strategy takes…
Oct 2015
La estrategia institucional sirve de hoja de ruta para el trabajo del Grupo BID, trazando un camino hacia el desarrollo económico y social sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe. La Estrategia…
Jan 2014
An estimated 42 percent of homes in Costa Rica are in need of repair, expansion, or some other improvement, and nearly a quarter ofthose deficient dwellings are so dilapidated as to represent an…
Jan 2014
Se estima que el 42% de los hogares en Costa Rica necesitan reparaciones, ampliaciones u otro tipo de mejoras y que casi la cuarta parte de esas viviendas en estado deficiente están tan deterioradas…