San José, March 30 th , 2023 - Malka Quirós Ruiz is a Costa Rican head of household who lives in Bagaces, a canton in Costa Rica's North Pacific region historically affected by high arsenic residues in the water. Her life, like that of 12,000 other inhabitants of the area, changed when the project to expand and improve the aqueduct that now provides them with clean water service came into ...
Santiago, Dominican Republic, December 9 th , 2022 - In line with its strategic axis of promoting Central American integration, the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) participated in the LVI Ordinary Meeting of Heads of State and Government of the Central American Integration System (SICA). During his speech, CABEI Executive President, Dr. Dante Mossi highlighted the key role ...
San Jose, June 30th, 2022.- Flor Franco, in addition to being the owner of the Leño y Carbón restaurant, is one of the 817 micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) that have benefited in Costa Rica through the Central American Bank for Economic Integration's (CABEI) Financial Sector Support Facility for MSME Financing. Their business is made up of 24 workers who kept their jobs during the ...
Tegucigalpa, May 20th, 2022.- Kenssy Rivera is a ninth-grade student at the Instituto Técnico Honduras (ITH), a school that has benefited from more than 500 tablets from the "Program for the Integral Improvement of Educational Infrastructure and Training in Honduras (MIFE)" financed by the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI). Since the beginning of the school year, Kenssy, like ...
Tegucigalpa, June 28th, 2022.- Two years after the implementation of the Financial Sector Support Facility for financing MSMEs of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) , 9,256 jobs have been protected in Honduras, of which 2,261 are women. Among them, Rosa Argentina Brizzio Medina, owner of a grocery microenterprise in Colonia Nueva Suyapa in Tegucigalpa, who was one of the ...
Tegucigalpa, June 25, 2021 .- Redoubling its commitment as the region's effective and timely financial intermediary, the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) commemorates International Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MIPYMES) Day with historic financing totaling US$2.956 billion to benefit this sector's competitiveness and productivity. This figure translates into 720,000 ...
Tegucigalpa, Honduras March 11, 2021.- The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) today approved US$35 million in financing to the Republic of Honduras for the acquisition of 2.8 million COVID-19 vaccines to vaccinate 1.4 million people at a rate of two doses per person. This will partially support the implementation of the Republic of Honduras' National COVID-19 Vaccine ...
San José, 6 de octubre de 2022.- The Cabécars are a native ethnic group in Costa Rica who live mostly in mountainous areas far from commerce, which makes it difficult for them to access food and basic health care products, as they have to walk between 4 and 7 hours to be able to shop. Aware of these difficulties, the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) approved a US$2,000 grant ...
Tegucigalpa, May 18, 2021.- Through the Housing and Sustainable Habitat Development Program (VIDHAS), the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) has approved US$596.7 million since 2015 to finance housing construction and improvement, as well as access to mortgage loans for the benefit of 109,122 families in Central America. VIDHAS expects to benefit with 27,825 new homes, 26,500 ...
Santo Domingo, November 23, 2021. - The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) approved US$60 million for the development of the "Project to Strengthen Financing for the Agricultural Sector with a Technological and Sustainable Approach in the Dominican Republic" to promote agricultural financing among micro, small and medium-sized farmers and implement sustainable initiatives. ...