Author Bio
Viviane Azevedo
Viviane Azevedo is a Senior Economist in the Development Effectiveness Unit at IDB Invest, where she focuses on impact management for private sector investments. In her role, she provides technical assistance to clients, conducts impact evaluations, develops tools for impact measurement and management, and leads collaboration with various multilateral development bank working groups, with a strong emphasis on harmonizing employment measurement methodologies. With over 15 years of experience in the design, supervision, and evaluation of development projects, Viviane specializes in the areas of financial inclusion, poverty measurement, and social development. Within the IDB Group, she has held various roles, including positions in the Opportunities for the Majority Unit, the Research Department, and the Social Sector. Before joining the IDB Group, she was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Loyola College in Maryland. Viviane holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Posts by Viviane Azevedo
Combating Multidimensional Poverty from the Private Sector Requires Much More Than Jobs
For Danper, a leading Peruvian company in the global agri-food sector, understanding the living conditions of its workers and their families is fundamental to strengthening actions to improve their quality of life.
How Are We Doing? Five Takeaways from Our Annual Impact Management Report
Multilateral development banks play a critical role in catalyzing private sector investment towards impact, which calls for robust impact management approaches. In addition to sharing how we do it (impact management practice), reporting on how we are doing (impact performance) is an essential element of our Impact Management Framework at IDB Invest, which we do annually through our Development Effectiveness Overview.
Does Access to Credit Make People Better or Worse Off?
Traditional credit screening approaches are based on qualifications that many low-income applicants do not have: credit histories, collateral, and verifiable income streams. What if these applicants could be assessed differently?
Impact management in action: takeaways for the private sector
As the impact investing industry continues to grow – doubling from US$114 billion in assets under management in 2016 to US$228 billion in 2017, so have efforts to standardize how impact investments are measured and managed.
Why is additionality key for private sector development finance?
To meet the ambitious targets laid out by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is necessary to accelerate collective action, coordination, and resource mobilization across the public and private sectors. Public sector resources alone are not sufficient to bring development finance from the “billions to trillions” required to achieve the SDGs.