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Multilateral development banks are stronger when we work together. The 2026 MDB Comparison Report on Capital and Liquidi...
20/10/2026

Multilateral development banks are stronger when we work together. The 2026 MDB Comparison Report on Capital and Liquidity reflects our collective effort to increase transparency, learn from one another, and continue evolving as a system so we can deliver more for the countries we serve.

Read the report: https://bit.ly/4ynEgRR

Care sustains individuals, families, and economies. After a decade of investments to strengthen care systems and policie...
20/10/2026

Care sustains individuals, families, and economies.

After a decade of investments to strengthen care systems and policies in and the , we invite you to join us for a conversation about the progress made, lessons learned, and opportunities presented by the sector to promote equality, well-being, and inclusive growth.

🎙️ In conversation:
• Diana Rodríguez, Special Advisor to the Presidency, IDB Group
• Ferdinando Regalia, Social Sector Manager, IDB

🗓️ October 29
🕙 10:00 a.m. ET
📍 YouTube
🔗 Register here: https://bit.ly/4snmhtp

19/10/2026

🌎 How can Latin America and the Caribbean mobilize more financing for biodiversity?

At , the IDB Group and its partners are presenting new research, open courses, and practical tools to help countries:

🔹 Understand the region's biodiversity financing gap
🔹 Expand financing solutions through high-integrity nature-credit markets
🔹 Integrate natural capital into policy and investment decisions

Together, these initiatives offer practical pathways to mobilize financing, support conservation, and advance nature-positive development to turn commitments into action.

🔗 Read our latest blog post to learn more:

https://lnkd.in/ezTFUc9E

🌐 Digital trade is opening new opportunities for businesses across Latin America and the Caribbean. Exports of digitally...
19/10/2026

🌐 Digital trade is opening new opportunities for businesses across Latin America and the Caribbean.

Exports of digitally delivered services reached $87.7 billion in 2024, nearly five times their 2005 level. But there is still significant room for growth, especially within the region itself.

In 2023, only 8.4% of the region’s digitally deliverable services exports were traded within Latin America and the Caribbean.

How can stronger regional integration help more firms access new markets and turn this momentum into greater productivity and growth?

👉 Find out in our new blog: https://bit.ly/4ewOLLr

Are the Caribbean's skills systems ready for what's next?Digitalization, AI, demographic shifts and economic volatility ...
18/10/2026

Are the Caribbean's skills systems ready for what's next?

Digitalization, AI, demographic shifts and economic volatility are reshaping what employers in the region need, while skills shortages, limited adult learning and skilled emigration hold economies back.
The IDB and the OECD are developing the Skills Strategy for the Caribbean, focusing on The Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. Join policymakers, experts and international partners for the public virtual kick-off, with leaders from both institutions, a panel discussion and a live Q&A.

📆 Monday, October 26
🕔 9:30–11:00 a.m. ET (8:30 a.m. Jamaica / 10:30 a.m. Suriname)
👉 Register: https://bit.ly/4jgnnER

18/10/2026

Burden – or bounty? Every year, millions of tons of sargassum, a free-floating brown seaweed, inundates Caribbean coasts. It disrupts tourism, smothers coral reefs, and hits economies that depend on the sea. But a sargassum industry is also possible, with potential uses in fertilizer, energy, food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics ...

🌊 In the first installment of our blog post series, join us on an expedition in the Mexican Caribbean that redefined the scope and potential of this alga: https://bit.ly/4nBioyD

⛵ The second installment explores the market imperfections and other challenges holding the industry back: https://bit.ly/4yoenRO

💲And the third focuses on the foundational role of public investment before commercialization kicks in: https://bit.ly/4zCRE5G

🌎 What opportunities could stronger economic ties between Latin America and the Caribbean and the Gulf Cooperation Counc...
17/10/2026

🌎 What opportunities could stronger economic ties between Latin America and the Caribbean and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries unlock? In 2024, bilateral trade in goods reached $29.6 billion, but significant potential remains to deepen trade, investment, and development cooperation between both regions.

Our new joint publication by the IDB and the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) explores opportunities to:

• Strengthen trade and investment.
• Improve transport and logistics connectivity.
• Reduce regulatory and information barriers.
• Scale development finance and cooperation.
• Advance collaboration in areas such as food security, energy, infrastructure, and resilience.

🔗 Download the publication: https://bit.ly/4ypGEHV

17/10/2026

Multilateral development banks have made important progress. Now we must translate that momentum into greater impact.

In Manila, we discussed how to mobilize more private capital, strengthen collaboration across the MDB system, and advance shared priorities, including jobs, nature, climate, water, critical minerals, and artificial intelligence.

By working together, we can deliver stronger results for the countries we serve.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4jrZr1w

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Over the past five decades, the economic relationship between Japan and Latin America and the Caribbean has expanded bey...
16/10/2026

Over the past five decades, the economic relationship between Japan and Latin America and the Caribbean has expanded beyond trade in goods to encompass services, investment, multinational production, value chain linkages, and development cooperation, reflecting increasingly complementary economic structures.

In a new report, we examine how the Japan–LAC economic relationship has evolved, the drivers behind these complementarities, and the trade costs, including information frictions, border procedures, and transport costs, that continue to constrain its full potential.

Explore the findings and recommendations for the years ahead 👉 https://bit.ly/4ikKZqT

🏠🎨 What if housing isn't a finished product, but a process?If you're in Washington, come by and explore "Habitar en Proc...
16/10/2026

🏠🎨 What if housing isn't a finished product, but a process?

If you're in Washington, come by and explore "Habitar en Proceso (Dwelling in Process)," an exhibition from the IDB Group's Regional Housing Forum that unites the work of Peruvian artist Lucía Coz and leading architects from across Latin America and the Caribbean.

Through art, drawings, plans, and photography, it invites visitors to reflect on how homes evolve over time and how housing shapes memory, community, and opportunity. ✨

📍 IDB Staff Association Gallery
(New York Avenue NW & 13th St. Entrance, Washington, D.C.)
🕛 12:00-5:00 p.m. ET
🎟️ Free admission
📅 On view through October 22

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