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IDB America
February 2006
Paul Constance |
IDB America Announces Scholarship Competition Winners Stories about training for low-income entrepreneurs in Chile, a support program for women displaced by violence in Colombia, and a Peruvian village's efforts to combat alcoholism were selected as winners in IDBAmerica's second annual scholarship competition.   |
IDB America
February 2007
Paul Constance |
IDBAmerica announces 2006 scholarship competition winners Stories about donating breast milk for premature infants in Uruguay, taming an invasive tree in rural Argentina, and fair trade program for indigenous women in Mexico were selected as winners in IDBAmerica's third annual scholarship competition. |
IDB America
July 2004 |
IDBAmerica Announces Scholarship Competition The competition, open to university students in any of the Inter-American Development Bank's borrowing member countries, is inviting submissions of original articles describing an innovative initiative that successfully tackles a social problem. |
IDB America
December 2004 |
From Our Readers Native language comments on the November 2004 article about trash recycling, "Dignity at the Dump." |
IDB America
November 2004 |
From Our Readers A selection of letters regarding recent articles (original language only.) Entra 21 - International Youth Foundation... Mexico's Oportunidades Program... China's Economy... |
IDB America
June 2004 |
Art and Culture at the IDB Salomon Lerner Febres, professor of philosophy and dean of Peru's Pontificia Universidad Catolica, delivered a lecture on human rights and citizen ethics... Peruvian poet Antonio Cisneros and Marie Arana held a session of poetry readings... etc. |
IDB America
January 2004
Roger Hamilton |
Heaven and earth Two surrealistic images of heaven and earth took the top prizes in the First Inter-American Competition and Exhibition of Digital Photography, awarded in January 2004. |
IDB America
January 2005 |
From Our Readers The conservationist and the rancher... Man and nature on the Galapagos... Programa Oportunidades... Educacion para una nueva Amazonia... |
IDB America
October 2001 |
IDB funds education reform in Argentina The IDB has announced the approval of a $600 million loan to improve the quality of secondary education in Argentina and make it more accessible to low-income youth... |
IDB America
February 2005
Ana Cecilia Marin Arana |
Full Needle Ahead How big exporters, tiny garment shops and young designers are giving new life to Peru's ancient textile tradition. |
IDB America
June 2001
Paul Constance |
Blackboard, television or computer screen? The president of Latin America's largest virtual university argues that the Internet will eclipse television as the favored distance education medium... |
IDB America
July 2004
Gador Manzano |
Profile of the Young Latin American Entrepreneur They are creative, well educated and eager to stand out, but they all complain about the difficulty of obtaining loans. They belong to the middle class, have university degrees and typically start their first company at around age 30. |
IDB America
May 2002 |
Innovation can be contagious There are islands of innovation and creativity throughout Latin America's vast public education systems, but very little human traffic between them. |
Smithsonian
August 2006 |
Snap Judgments The winners (and some runners-up) of the publication's annual photo contest take a bow. |
IDB America
June 2005 |
Environment Fund Reaches Across Brazil Brazil's National Environmental Fund (FNMA, after its initials in Portuguese) has pushed for more than 2,000 projects throughout the country. Recently, NGOs and municipalities are helping to carry out national environmental policy there. |
IDB America
November 2002
Paul Constance |
The high cost of solidarity Why many Latin American immigrants are paying too much to send money back home, and what can be done about it |
