Frontier States Investment Generation—Brazil

completed

The project provides direct support to three frontier states (Bahia, Para, and Pernambuco) in Brazil, and applies lessons learned from successful investment-generation efforts in a nonfrontier state (Minas Gerais). It also links the state efforts to the national investment-attraction agency, APEX-Brasil. The objective is to produce investment-climate reforms, create jobs, and increase foreign direct investment in the three frontier states by CY11. A parallel objective is to establish a system to enable other states to benefit from the lessons learned, after project closure. Also, lessons, tools, and techniques from this project will be widely disseminated to other investment policy and promotion projects within Latin America and the Caribbean as well as in other regions.