The Development Bank approved a US$32-million funding for the Urban Development Program of the municipality of Cascavel, in the Brazilian State of Paraná. Focused on the most vulnerable population, the investment will enable the implementation of sanitation and urban mobility works, the construction...
The Development Bank has granted new non-reimbursable cooperation of US$ 150 thousand to the cities of Joinville and Vila Velha for the adjustment of health units, and the purchase of protective supplies for health personnel and rapid tests to detect the new virus. This is one of the lines of...
Juan E. Notaro FONPLATA Executive President The challenge is to assure that the sacrifices we have made so far pay off. I review Latin-American newspapers and the news of these first days of June paint a gloomy picture. The region has become the global epicenter of the pandemic and the economic...
The Development Bank has granted almost US$ 55 million to this member country to fight the COVID-19 health and socioeconomic emergency. In the national sphere, funds were aimed at the construction of modular emergency hospitals in several provinces, the purchase of appropriate individual protection...
Juan E. Notaro FONPLATA Executive President As governments in the region start taking action to get the economy back on track, the size of the challenges we shall face in the coming months becomes more visible. Latin America will have to face economic standstill due to quarantine and lockdown...