1990年6月,美国总统布什提出了“美洲倡议”,对美国在新格局下的拉美政策作出了调整。在这个“倡议”中,布什多次提到了美洲开发银行,并赋予其作为“倡议”主要执行者的使命。因此,美洲开发银行在今后拉美经济发展中所起的作用将是不可低估的。美洲开发银行是应拉美国家的多次要求于1959年成立的。美国之所以最终支持建立这样一个洲际银行,是有它自己的考虑的。50年代末,拉美发生了一系列政治事件,例如,针对 In June 1990, U.S. President Bush put forward the “Americas Initiative,” and adjusted the U.S. policy on Latin America under the new pattern. In this “initiative,” Bush has repeatedly referred to the Inter-American Development Bank and has given it its mission of being the chief executor of the “initiative.” Therefore, the role of the Inter-American Development Bank in the future economic development in Latin America will not be underestimated. The Inter-American Development Bank was established in 1959 on the basis of repeated requests from Latin American countries. It is its own consideration that the United States ultimately supported the establishment of such an intercontinental bank. In the late 1950s, a series of political events took place in Latin America, for example, against it