Did you know that for years The Felipe Herrera Library has provided access to the online version of Encyclopedia Britannica via its WEB site ...

Los cinéfilos del BID—más de lo que parecen—están de parabienes, y los vecinos y comerciantes de la zona de la sede también: una nueva sala de cine a pocas cuadras del Banco permite disfrutar del séptimo...

"As the travel industry has evolved over the years, so has the work in the section", says Lydia Almon, section chief...

Do you ever feel that, although you work at the IDB, you don't really understand the full breadth and width of the Bank's activities? Why not attend one of the Business Seminars that the Office of External Relations has been organizing for outside audiences since 1990?

Por iniciativa de un grupo de voluntarios, en el 1999 se creó el Grupo de Diversidad del BID el cual se dedica a promover todos los aspectos de la diversidad en el Banco.

The Felipe Herrera Library now offers all headquarters staff access to the full text of the Harvard Business Review. You can access the most recent issue back to vol.1, no. 1, published in 1922 to the current issues.

In early December, the exhibit "Tradition and Entrepreneurship: Folk Art and Crafts from Peru," then on display in the IDB’s Cultural Center, was carefully packed and shipped to the Istituto Italo-Latinoamericano (IILA), in Rome, Italy where it was shown for four weeks.

HRD has just launched an interactive guide for staff being transferred to and among the Country Offices entitled Welcome to the Country Offices. This guide, available through HRD’s intranet and the Bank's portal, is a useful reference center for an employee and his/her family...

Promoting the health and safety of
the employees of the IDB and IIC
National Occupational Health Nursing Week was held April 18-22, 2005.  At the IDB \ IIC, your occupational health nurses (OHNs) are working this week to champion your health and safety on the job.

Una réplica artesanal del Calendario Azteca fue entregado al Presidente Enrique V.  Iglesias por Josefina Vásquez Mota, secretaria general de la SEDESOL el pasado 2 de junio.

La Fiesta de las Naciones se llevo a cabo el pasado 20 de Mayo del 2005 en el Auditorio Andrés Bello del BID.

The Group Goetz Architects, contractor Keystone Construction, was awarded the 2004 Award of Merit in Interior Architecture for its redesign of the IIC work space into an open work environment.

Kira Bilecky, 18-year-old daughter of RES staff member Pilar Bilecky of Peru, helped lead the Peruvian women's soccer team to a gold medal at the XV Juegos Boliviaranos held earlier this month in Colombia.

IDB Chief Economist Guillermo Calvo has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his lifetime academic and research achievements.

A traditional treat in Bolivia is a meat-filled turnover called a salteña.

The Travel Management Section has an online direct booking system called GetThere. The system can be used to view flight availability and approximate cost of travel tickets, and to book official mission travel...

Register for various classes offered. Meet the teachers. Become a volunteer. Bring suggestions of interesting topics for workshops.

El día martes 10 de enero, jóvenes representantes de la organización Young Connection tuvieron un desayuno con el Presidente Luis Alberto Moreno...

Representatives from government, international organizations, universities, civil society organizations and the private sector from 34 countries participated in a Day of Ethics and Development at the Bank on February 23.

To view speeches delivered at the annual meeting and others, go to the Bank’s home page at www.iadb.org, click on “News” in the blue column on the left-hand side and then on “Speeches.” The most recent ones will appear in reverse chronological order.

Long-time Chasqui editor Diana Lesbines has taken on new responsibilities in the Office of the External Relations Advisor as a communications specialist in the Special Programs Section, a position in which she will develop communications components to support Bank operations.

Under its "Green Goal" initiative, the World Cup set environmental targets in the key areas of trash, transportation, energy and water, in order to reduce significantly the environmental impact of the event.

Screen icon Isabella Rossellini graced the Enrique V. Iglesias Cultural Center with her presence on June 20 for the U.S. premiere of Peruvian director Luis Llosa’s new film, “The Feast of the Goat.”

Available in terms of 4, 5 or 6 years, our Step-Up Share Certificate gives you a one-time option to change the rate on your certificate account to our then-current rate.

Register for various classes offered, workshops and seminars. Meet the teachers. Become a volunteer. Bring suggestions of interesting topics for workshops.

“I brought the soccer balls from Germany myself in a big box on the plane,” she said. “Customs fortunately did not question me!”

Jazz and Washington, D.C., are synonymous with one single iconic figure, perhaps the greatest composer/arranger of the 20th century: Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington.

On the fourth Thursday in November, the vast majority of U.S. residents will celebrate Thanksgiving, a quintessentially American holiday that appeals to everyone, regardless of their national, ethnic or religious background or political stripes.

Every year at Christmastime, the United States Postal Service issues a traditional holiday stamp, which since 1978 has been on the theme of the Madonna and Child.

Giselle Commons' daughter Kiersen showed former Harvard president Larry Summers a thing a two about women's scientific abilities...

"If you're not in Google, you're nowhere," explains IDB staffer Grace Guinand of the Office of External Relations.  

En solidaridad con la comunidad peruana ofrece envío de remesas sin costo.

With summer having unofficially started on Memorial Day, May 26, the Bank adopted a "business casual" dress policy for staff at headquarters.

¿Cuántos de ustedes ya tienen el nuevo ID? Si aún no lo tienen, no esperen más ¡no cuesta nada!

John Dunn Smith, an assistant editor in the Research Department, has recently published his first children's book, The Best Mariachi in the World/El Mejor Mariachi del Mundo.

The IDB’s flagship publication, produced by the Research Department on a different topic every year has been renamed “Development in the Americas” or “DIA” for short.