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Five Drivers Reshaping Finance in Latin America and the Caribbean
The tech revolution is breaking down structural financial barriers across Latin America and the Caribbean. Informal workers, rural communities, and small businesses are gaining rapid access to digital savings accounts, microloans, and instant transactions, often at little or no cost. But what’s really driving this transformation?
How to Measure Job Creation in Development Projects
Development finance institutions need to know how many jobs their investments support and create, yet obtaining reliable data is a challenge. To address this, IDB Invest is piloting a new framework to measure the contribution of development project portfolios to employment in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Digital Transformation Redefines Agricultural Competitiveness in Latin America and the Caribbean
Every time an agricultural company determines when to irrigate, selects what inputs to apply, or decides how to market or transport its production, the use of data and technological solutions becomes a key competitive advantage.
Strengthening Impact Measurement and Management to Attract New Investors
To attract impact investors, fund managers increasingly recognize the need to measure and demonstrate the impact of their investments credibly. IDB Invest is working with fund managers in Latin America and the Caribbean to build their impact measurement and management capacity from the ground up.
Guide to a Blue Economy that Benefits Communities in the Caribbean
Besides having a positive environmental impact and protecting the natural capital, the use of ocean resources by the small island developing States in the Caribbean should also foster inclusive growth, fair employment, and community well-being.
Sustainable Investment to Unlock Amazonia’s Potential
Fostering sustainable value chains, enhancing regulatory frameworks, and promoting inclusive business models could mitigate risks for private investors while ensuring economic activities benefit the region’s biodiversity and local communities. An attractive prospect for all stakeholders.
Insurance, Technology, and a $267 Billion Opportunity
Driven by technological advancements, a significant untapped market, and collaboration between traditional companies and startups, Latin America and the Caribbean's insurtech sector is primed to boost growth, enhance financial inclusion and foster resilience.
Outcome-Based Financing Rewards Investors Upon Achieving Impact
IDB Invest’s team has implemented almost 50 operations of this kind in Latin America and the Caribbean for $247.81 million in blended finance and an additional $16.74 billion mobilized.
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.
