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Remittances to decrease in real terms
For the first time this decade, remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean are expected to decrease in value due to the combined effects of economic downturns in the United States and Spain, inflation and a weaker dollar. According to an analysis of recent remittance data by the IDB's Multilateral Investment Fund, money transfers made by migrants will decrease in real terms. > Read more

Paraguay to host 11th Microenterprise Forum
Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima of the Netherlands and Inter-American Development Bank President Luis Alberto Moreno will open the 11th Microenterprise Forum, which will take place October 8–10 in Asunción, Paraguay. > Read more

IDB, World Bank hail Americas free trade
The Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank welcomed an initiative launched by 12 countries in the Americas to promote free trade as a force for economic growth and stability in the Western Hemisphere. > Read more

Headlines
	Managing financial turmoil
	Efforts to improve infant care
	Latin American exports to soar
	M-banking call for proposals
	Grants for water, sanitation
	Panama Canal to expand
	IDB welcomes Bank of China
	Conditional cash transfers
	Microfinanciers win awards
	Emergency funds for Haiti
	Call for proposals in knowledge

Documents
	Code of Ethics (pdf)
	2007 Integrity Report (pdf)
	2007 Annual Report
	Operational Framework for Lending in Local Currency (pdf)
	Taxation and Latin America (pdf)
	Outsiders? - IPES 2008
	Blueprint for Green Energy (pdf)

Events
	XI Inter-American Forum on Microenterprise October 8-10
	VIII Annual IDB-Civil Society Meeting, Montevideo, Uruguay October 17-18
	ASIA-LAC Trade and Investment Forum in Tokyo, Japan October 30-31