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Cartagena, Colombia, Sep 5 (EFE).- The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the National Corporation of Popular and Solidarity Finance (CONAFIPS) introduced a plan on Tuesday to stimulate bio-business in the Ecuadorian Amazon, aiming to assist microenterprises, producer cooperatives, and medium-sized companies. “We are about to start delivering tangible results: in Ecuador, one of the members(…) …

Cartagena, Colombia, Sep 5 (EFE).- Public development banks play a crucial role in directing private capital towards infrastructure projects, according to a study by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Preliminary findings were unveiled Tuesday in Cartagena during the Finance in Common Summit (FiCS). Joan Prats, the leading financial specialist for Connectivity, Markets, and Finance at …

Cartagena, Colombia, Sep 5 (EFE).- A panel of experts in the Colombian port city of Cartagena warned Tuesday about the “significant barriers” small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face in Latin America and the Caribbean when seeking financing and access to capital. Ana María Ibáñez, Vice President of Sectors and Knowledge at the Inter-American Development Bank …

In the midst of a complex web of crises, spanning climate change, biodiversity depletion, constraints on civic space and mounting debt burdens, civil society organizations and human rights defenders f

The UN’s agricultural development fund chief urges Public Development Banks to direct funding to fight hunger, poverty and climate change