Case Study
Financial Market Development - Support from the Inter-American Development Bank Group 1990-2002
How did Inter-American Development Bank support Financial Market Development during 1990-2002?
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This issue of Financial Market Development offers a general view of the activities of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group that supported financial market development in Latin America and the Caribbean during the period 1990-2002.
The paper highlights that during 1990-2002, the IDB Group addressed financial sector activities by targeting six critical areas:
- Banking intermediation;
- Capital markets;
- Insurance markets;
- Pension systems;
- Housing finance;
- Debt reduction.
The paper gives a glimpse of the IDBs operations in financial sector reform and market deepening across different countries. These include:
- Argentina:
- Global credit program for small businesses and micro enterprises;
- Investment sector reform program.
- Bolivia:
- Multi-sector lending program;
- Financial and investment sector reform program.
- Brazil:
- Supervision of closed private pension funds;
- Global credit program for small- and medium-sized enterprises.
The paper concludes that in future, IDB will:
- Work in Capital markets and contribute to the process of institutional strengthening;
- Support efforts to develop deeper, more liquid bank and non-bank financial markets;
- Work with supervisory and regulatory institutions to ensure implementation of appropriate financial standards for integration of the financial markets.
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