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The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is keen to provide finance and advice on how to reduce damage to the environment.

But it now needs to improve teacher-training and the curriculum, said Julian Cristia of the IDB.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Bank are finalising their capital-increase plans ahead of their annual meetings in March and April respectively.The begging competition is affecting how much money the MDBs feel they can ask for, and how they plan to raise it.

THE streets leading from the airport to an improvised conference centre in Peru's National Museum were adorned with flags and freshly painted white lines to greet the bankers and policy wonks who turned up in droves for this week's annual meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Waiting for the rebels Not so nice Reprints"Rather than being an aberration, Colombia may be a precursor," Francisco Thoumi, an economist at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington, DC, told a seminar on urban violence held in Rio de Janeiro this week by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Policy on infrastructure in Latin America is at an "inflection point", reckons Antonio Vives of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

On August 4th Lula led a group of Brazilian business moguls to Bogotá, invited by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to discuss ways of boosting trade between the two countries.

Another trip that Mr Franco made to the US in July which was supposed to be a private visit to meet PLRA supporters, but included meetings with Thomas Shannon, the sub-secretary of the State for the Americas, and senior officials in the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB is also believed to have displeased Mr Lugo.This early tensions highlight the risks to Mr Lugo's governing alliance.

Hardly surprising, then, that remittances from Latin Americans abroad—$38 billion last year, according to the IDB make a bigger contribution to the region's balance of payments than foreign direct investment.Perhaps the main ground for hope is that governments are running out of ways of paying for procrastination.

A CORPORATE saga has filled Israel's newspapers for months: the struggle of Nochi Dankner, one of the country's leading businessmen, to keep control of IDB Holding Corporation, a debt-laden conglomerate.

In December he lost his grip on his heavily indebted business empire, IDB Holding Corporation, when a court approved a rescue plan supported by the group's creditors that handed control to two rival entrepreneurs.