The banksays special efforts will be made to identify clients in Guatemala, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and north-eastern Brazil, where one in three workers is employed in the sugar industry.
Regional lending facility boosted
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says it will back a $150m facility aimed at providing short-term trade financing - and medium-term investment loans - to sugar and bioenergy ventures in Brazil, Mexico and Central America.
22 January 2009 23:00 GMT
Updated
25 November 2012 8:56 GMT
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