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In order to reaffirm its commitment to Brazil´s development and define opportunities for joint action, CAF´s Secretary General, Victor Rico, met with Brazil’s Minister for the Economy, Paulo Guedes. The meetng was also attended by the Ministry of Economy´s Secretary for International Economic Affairs, Erivaldo Gomes, and CAF´s director-representative in Brazil, Jaime Holguín.

Applications to participate in SEMIDE Mexico 2019 will be open from February 11 to March 13. The event will introduce public servants to the use impact assessment as a governance tool. The event is organized by CAF-development bank of Latin America- and will be held on May 15-17 in Cuernavaca.

The executive president of CAF, Luis Carranza, met with the President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado Quesada; the Minister of Finance, Rocío Aguilar Montoya; and the President of the Central Bank of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Cubero Brealey, to explore a joint agenda for the benefit of the general public.

Three outstanding young Venezuelans accepted the challenge of shifting their street artwork to the walls of the CAF Gallery as a way to express themselves using urban art techniques.

The good performance of cities between 100,000 and 1 million people is decisive in increasing the productivity and competitiveness of Latin American economies.

CAF-development bank of Latin America- and the Provincial Government of Zamora Chinchipe agreed to implement strategies to improve crop management, marketing, and to create added value to fine aromatic cocoa as a raw material

Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises will be able to finance their working capital and short-term investment needs through credit unions.

CAF signed a US$200,000 technical cooperation agreement with the municipality of Alagoinhas, Brazil, to conduct studies to improve management of water resources in the region

With this issue, in high demand mainly by central banks, fund managers and commercial banks, CAF—development bank of Latin America—successfully kicked off its 2019 capital market campaign, after breaking a record in 2018 in international market issues, with an all-time high of US$4.9 billion.

New technologies are called to have a direct impact on the development of Latin American countries, and can contribute to increase productivity, improve global value chains and foster entrepreneurship.