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 ...
Buenos Aires, May 3rd, 2022.- This morning representatives of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) and the Ibero-American States Organization for Education, Science and Culture (OEI) presented "Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship in Latin America and the Caribbean" report. The document analyzes the issue of youth labor insertion, a particularly relevant phenomenon in the ...
Tegucigalpa, January 20, 2022.- The measures taken in the different countries to prevent the spread of COVID-19 had adverse effects on their economies, reflected in lower sales, business closures, layoffs, and loss of income in various sectors, such as micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). In response to their needs and aware that this sector represents a strong driving force in the ...
Bogotá, January 12, 2022 .- The results of the Employment Mission , an initiative of the highest technical and political level in Colombia, which aimed to diagnose and design public policies, as well as provide recommendations for problems in the Colombian labor market, were released on Wednesday with the support of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI). During 2020, the Bank ...
Panama City, September 7, 2021.- To address the financial needs of Panamanian micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), as well as to support them in recovering and protecting around 940 jobs, the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), has disbursed US$61 million from August 2020 to date as part of its MSME Support Facility Program. "In the case of the MSME sector, CABEI ...
Guatemala City, June 11, 2021.- A total of 454 companies, 93% of which are micro and small, have accessed financing from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), enabling them to obtain resources to cover the costs of their commercial operations, repay debt, and pay salaries and obligations to suppliers. Part of these business loans will be guaranteed by CABEI through the ...
Tegucigalpa, September 15, 2020.- Within the framework of a strategic dialogue, the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), the International Cooperation and Development Fund (TaiwanICDF), and the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) announced today the signing of a Letter of Interest to help the countries of the Central American region strengthen their response ...
Tegucigalpa, June 27th, 2022.- 99% of the nearly 1.6 million companies operating in the region are MSMEs; 83% micro and 16% small and medium enterprises. This important sector represents more than 65% of the economically active population and are the main employment generation source in the region, according to the Economic Impact Report on the COVID-19 pandemic effect on MSMEs in Central America ...
Tegucigalpa, February 28th, 2022 .- The objective of a memorandum of understanding signed today between the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), the Colombian Ministry of Labor, the National Learning Service (SENA) and the Zamorano Pan-American Agricultural School is to jointly support vulnerable populations in developing skills and preparing them for their insertion into the ...
Santo Domingo, March 9th, 2022.- With the commitment to support Dominican micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in their economic reactivation after the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) made its first disbursement to the country's private sector for US$255,504 under the Financial Sector Support Facility Program for the ...
