Unlocking capital: Towards a European approach to mobilising institutional investors
This brief highlights the EU’s growing reliance on private capital to help bridge the $4.2 trillion annual Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) financing gap. With limited official development assistance, institutional investors, managing over $100 trillion in assets, are seen as crucial to closing this gap.
Advisory boards: an untapped resource for businesses
BDC undertook the first-ever Canadian study on the use of advisory boards by small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The study describes how advisory boards work in these businesses and quantitatively demonstrates that SMEs that use them have superior growth and better financial results.
Inter-American Development Bank Quarterly Business Review: First Quarter 2023
The 2023 first quarter edition of the Quarterly Business Review (QBR) provides management with a status of the Bank’s performance. The QBR reports on outputs, lending program priorities and organizational indicators on a quarterly basis to allow management to monitor progress in achieving corporate results. This periodic monitoring supports evidence-based decision making and allows for timely identification of deviations from targets and enables effective implementation of measures to address them.
Access to Credit and the Expansion of Broadband Internet in Peru
We exploit the staggered expansion of the internet broadband network to firms and bank branches locations in Peru during the last decade to study non-financial firm performance and bank credit dynamics. Access to broadband unleashes firm growth, increases the chances of entry of firms and reduces the probability of exit in benefited locations.
Cross-border infrastructure projects: The European Investment Bank’s role in cross-border infrastructure projects
This report presents an overview of the EIB’s support for cross-border infrastructure projects. While some national infrastructure projects such as airports or ports may have significant cross-border impacts or a regional dimension, these have not been considered in this overview.
Outlook of Fiscal Relations among Government Levels in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Economic Commission for Latin
America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) have prepared this publication, Outlook of
Fiscal Relations among Government Levels in Latin America and the Caribbean,
with the financial support of the Spanish Agency for International Development
Cooperation (AECID).
Consumer Loans, Heterogeneous Interest Rates, and Inequality
Using the Brazilian administrative credit registry data with the universe of all
consumer loans originated by banks in the country from 2013 to 2019, we document
high borrowing interest rates, which vary systematically with individual’s
characteristics. In particular, even after controlling for several observable
individual attributes (such as income, occupation, and default probabilities,
low-income), individuals pay higher interest rates than high-income borrowers.
National Development Financial Institutions: Trends, Crises Response Activities, and Lessons Learned
