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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 February 2005 Paul Constance |
Stories Worth Telling Latin America may lack many things---foreign investment, clean drinking water, well-paying jobs---but it has no shortage of creative citizens working to make things better, as evidenced by IDBAmerica's scholarship competition winners. |
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 February 2006 Anascas del Rio Moncada |
A Place in Society In Colombia, two women displaced by armed conflicts become architects of social development. |
IDB America June 2004 Mayra Buvinic |
Against the Odds Bogota proves that violence prevention can work, even in the toughest settings. |
IDB America February 2006 Erick Tejada Sanchez |
Reviving the Dry Law in Tuti How a small rural community in the Peruvian Andes succeeded in defeating pervasive alcoholism. |
IDB America February 2006 Nicole Keller |
Incubating Entrepreneurs In Chile, a novel training program pairs business-school students with low-income entrepreneurs in a mutually enriching partnership. |
IDB America January 2004 |
A better use of resources Ricardo Santiago, manager of the IDB's Regional Operations Department 1, which includes Chile, spoke with IDBAmerica about lessons learned in that country's road concession program. He also speaks of how to streamline processes. |
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. |
IDB America December 2005 |
Business and Social Concerns Are Not Mutually Exclusive Sofia Vergara replies to questions regarding her clothing line, Colombia's garment industry trade and building a company while simultaneously helping people. |