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Are Financial Institutions Ready to Face Climate Risks? This Is What We Found Out
An IDB Invest survey shows they require guidance and a solid legal framework to navigate a complex landscape. Experts recommend focusing on three pillars: governance and culture, implementation and engagement, and transition planning.
Artificial Intelligence for Timely Diagnosis of Tropical Diseases
Climate change accelerates the transmission of infections. Technology can help win this race against time, save costs, and save lives, especially in Amazonia and other vulnerable areas.
Finding a Common Language for Financing the Circular Economy in Peru
Achieving a just transition to the circular economy involves a shift into a new model that leaves no one behind. Although the road ahead is teeming with obstacles, the experience in Peru has jump-started a knowledge-creation process, easing the transition and establishing the first steps.
Double-Click for Women: Closing the Digital Divide from a Private-Sector Perspective
By closing the technology and gender digital divide, we could add about $2 trillion to global GDP, and prevent the creation of wider gender gaps as automation replaces the less-qualified workforce, frequently women, in larger numbers.
Using Gender-Smart Housing to Protect Women
Gender-smart housing is a socio-urban intervention strategy aimed at promoting women’s safety in housing spaces based on a gender-lens territorial analysis.
Securitization: A Tool for Issuers to Reallocate Credit Risk and Widen the Investor Base
Securitization is a useful tool to deal with risk aversion for all players in capital markets. It’s the process of pooling various types of cash-flow generating assets, such as mortgages or loans, repackaging them and selling them as securities and, most importantly, offering different level of risk to buyers.
How to Promote the Digital Transformation of Manufacturing in Latin America and the Caribbean
The digital transformation of the manufacturing sector in Latin America and the Caribbean is key to more sustainable economic development and higher productivity and inclusion in the global economy. A study conducted by IDB Invest with 35 local companies helps us understand where we are and where we want to go.
Integrating Green Finance Into the Core Business of Financial Institutions
Green finance in the private sector was predominantly linked to corporate responsibility. It’s now the time to integrate climate action into the core business of financial institutions.
IDB World: Telework, the War’s Impact on the Region, Education in Haiti
We present three blog posts from the IDB Group on the new world of telework, the impact of the Ukrainian war on the region, and call centers in Haiti.