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IDB Lab is the innovation laboratory of the Inter-American Development Bank Group, the leading source of development finance and expertise for improving lives in Latin America and the Caribbean.

2 articles from IDB Lab

Trade and Investment

How innovative fintech is helping small business in cross-border trade and payments

MSMEs are especially vulnerable to current threats to payment system interoperability, but cutting-edge tech can help guarantee the cross-border payments they need to thrive.

Sergio Navajas and Jimena Sotelo 29 May 2025
Business

How can we make entrepreneurship serve the greater good?

We think of entrepreneurs as people who act opportunistically to secure vast personal wealth. But what if there were a new, more socially responsible model for the 21st century?

Irene Arias Hofman, Jens Martin Skibsted, Lien De Cuyper, and Julie Ziskind 11 Nov 2018

IDB Lab contributors

Irene Arias Hofman

Chief Executive Officer

Marcelo Cabrol

Chief Scalability, Knowledge and Impact

Sergio Navajas

Senior Specialist

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