ENVIRONMENT:
Towards environmental sustainability
The Latin American meeting on development banks and environmentally sustainable investments held on the Amazon city of Belém do Pará (Brazil), left more than one commitment to sustainability by development banks and investors interested in the Amazon region. Read more...

Sweden is a country that exports more than half of what it produces; therefore it has developed a first-level export system thanks to the financing mechanisms and guarantees it has developed. How do these mechanisms work? SEK did a presentation in the ALIDE headquarters, in Lima, about some details we summarize next.
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During the seminar "Swedish Export Financing Solutions" hosted in ALIDE headquarter in Lima on September 14th; two new Swedish innovative concepts were introduced: one for promoting a sustainable urban development and the other for incorporating public health treatment. We will see some characteristics. Read more...

Towards a more rural tourism, more SME and more accessible
Under the motto “For a more rural tourism, more SME, more accessible”, the different thorny problems of this sector were discussed at the II Latin American and the Caribbean Forum on Tourism Financing and Development that was held on September 9 and 10, in Cancun, Mexico. The following paragraphs resulted from the meeting.
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GROWTH WITH SUSTAINABILITY
Guarantees going up
Almost every Ibero-American countries have a guarantee scheme for favoring financing access to micro, small and medium enterprises. These systems have been multiplied by ten in the last ten years. The last Ibero-American forum about guarantees showed very optimistic figures.
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