Projects in Latin America & the Caribbean (by Type of Project)

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COUNTRY	FISCAL YEAR	TYPE of PROJECT	DESCRIPTION
Bolivia	1999	Administrative Barriers	Identified administrative barriers to investment.
Brazil	2001	Administrative Barriers	Conducted an administrative barriers study with a focus on Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro to investigate the administrative impediments to the establishment and operation of investment projects.
Costa Rica	2006	Administrative Barriers	FIAS conducted a review of the major impediments to competition and the role that an effective competition law policy (CLP) plays in alleviating these impediments and fostering private sector-led economic growth and poverty reduction in IDA member countries.
Mexico	2007	Administrative Barriers	This is a multi-phased project wherein FIAS, together with the Doing Business unit of the World Bank, assisted in eliminating administrative barriers to investment at the sub-national level in Mexico.
Mexico	2006	Administrative Barriers	Per the request of the government of Mexico, FIAS, in conjunction with USAID, conducted a Doing Business report for 12 states across Mexico in 2005. The report inspired competition among the 12 Mexican states to reform as well as to lobby for an expanded study of 31 states.
Nicaragua	2005	Administrative Barriers	Assisted the Government in setting up and supervising the implementation of a comprehensive administrative reform program.
Nicaragua	2003	Administrative Barriers	Evaluated existing information on administrative barriers and suggested a design of a comprehensive administrative reform program to eliminate barriers to entry.
Peru	2006	Administrative Barriers	After a thorough diagnostic by FIAS of administrative barriers in the Municipality of Lima, FIAS entered into a partnership with the IFC Technical Assistance Facility in supporting the Municipality’s reform of issuing construction permits which led to changes in zoning rules and envisaged applications of different procedures to various categories of construction permits.
Peru	2006	Administrative Barriers	This project was aimed at development of a detailed proposal with details and procedures for the Municipality of Lima, and earned for the IFC/FIAS partnership the First Prize in the Administrative Simplification Category in July 2006 in the competition for Good Governmental Practices in Peru, organized by a group of Peruvian and international NGOs. Europe and Central Asia.
Peru	2004	Administrative Barriers	Conducted a pilot assessment of administrative procedures at the municipal level in Metropolitan Municipality of Lima to improve the local business environment through simplifying municipal business regulations.
Venezuela	2002	Administrative Barriers	Identified administrative barriers to advise on how to streamline investment procedures.
Honduras	2005	Backward Linkages	Provided follow-up assistance in the implementation of training reforms, the first step of which involved an in-depth review of the training law.
Honduras	2004	Backward Linkages	Advised the Government on strengthening the framework for labor training through vocational and technical training schemes.
Mexico	1996	Backward Linkages	Reviewed policy and institutional aspects of backward linkages to increase integration of maquiladora firms into the Mexican economy.
Nicaragua	2005	Backward Linkages	Conducted an assessment of the labor skills needs of the private sector in order to reform the country's labor skills training to strengthen the competitiveness of the private sector.
Mexico	1997	Backward Linkages [Implementation]	Conducted a one-day workshop on strategy and organization of a backward linkages program.
Honduras	2003	Competition Policy	Reviewed the latest draft legislation to assist the government in designing a best practice policy framework on competition policy.
Nicaragua	2005	Competition Policy	Conducted a desk review of the draft competition law and implementing regulations.
Nicaragua	2003	Competition Policy	Assessed the constraints to competition and its impact on the competitiveness of Nicaragua's economy and its ability to attract investment by recommending a design of an appropriate legal and institutional framework.
Nicaragua	2004	Competition Policy [Implementation]	Analyzed constraints to competition in key industries and assisted in the design of a legal and institutional framework for competition policy in the country.
El Salvador	2004	Corporate Social Responsibility	Assessed the corporate social responsibility initiatives in the country's coffee and apparel industries in order to design supporting policy tools to support and strengthen these initiatives.
Aruba	2005	Diagnostic	Diagnosed the investment environment in Aruba.
Brazil	2007	Diagnostic	This is the first phase of a multi-phased project, jointly with the Doing Business unit of the World Bank. FIAS created momentum for reform in eliminating administrative barriers to investment at the sub-national level in Brazil by benchmarking and making public five Doing Business indicators.
Dominican Republic	2002	Diagnostic	Advised the Government on enhancing its ability to attract foreign direct investment.
Grenada	2004	Diagnostic	Assisted the Grenada Industrial Development Corporation in diagnosing the country's investment climate.
Guatemala	2004	Diagnostic	Conducted a detailed diagnostic of the country's investment climate in preparation for starting a dialogue with the country's new government.
Guyana	2002	Diagnostic	Provided a 'snapshot' of the overall investment climate, focusing on the tax and incentive system, FDI legislation, and investment promotion strategy and institutional framework.
Honduras	2001	Diagnostic	Reviewed the country's general business environment for FDI with the objective of setting a broader, strategic reform agenda in collaboration with the World Bank.
Netherlands Antilles	2002	Diagnostic	Reviewed the overall investment climate in order to develop recommendations to help increase the investment attractiveness of the five Antilles islands.
Paraguay	1993	Diagnostic	FIAS conducted a diagnostic review of the investment climate.
Regional	2004	Diagnostic	Implemented an enterprise survey across Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and select Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) countries to identify and assess serious and high-cost constraints in their business environments and their relative standing in their region or globally and set priorities for reform.
St. Kitts & Nevis	1998	Diagnostic	Conducted a diagnostic review of the investment climate to determine the impediments to attracting FDI.
Trinidad & Tobago	1994	Diagnostic	Conducted review of the country's overall investment environment and evaluated ongoing reforms of the regulatory and instutional framework to design feasible steps to improve the investment environment.
Uruguay	1991	Diagnostic	Conducted a diagnostic study of the investment climate.
Guyana	1995	Diagnostic/Insitutions	FIAS reviewed policies impeding foreign direct investment and helped the national investment authority to develop its institutional capacity.
Nicaragua	1998	Diagnostic/ Promotion strategy	Examined the legal, regulatory, and administrative obstacles to FDI, with particular attention in the financial sector and provided advice on structuring a promotion agency.
Dominican Republic	1998	Diagnostic/Promotion strategy	Reviewed the business and legal environment and advised the national investment promotion agency on setting priorities and allocating resources.
El Salvador	1998	FDI Database	Followed up on an earlier project to strengthen the government's Investment Facilitation Office and assisted in designing a new framework for collecting, compiling, and distributing data on FDI.
Jamaica	1998	FDI Database	Reviewed existing FDI data sources, definitions and classifications, and made recommendations to organize the FDI statistical system.
Bolivia	1999	Incentives	Conducted a review of investment incentives.
Costa Rica	2004	Incentives	Reviewed existing corporate income tax and incentive system to help the Government structure a reform proposal in the form of a draft law to Congress.
Costa Rica	2001	Incentives	Assisted an inter-ministerial committee to evaluate various options on tax structure and incentives allowing the country to be WTO compliant without a major detrimental impact on the budget as well as the country's attractiveness to FDI.
Jamaica	2004	Incentives	Assisted in the Government's evaluation of different alternatives and options for the country's future CIT and incentives regimes by developing a more appropriate and attractive incentives and tax regime, designed to be attractive to foreign as well as domestic investors while reflecting sound fiscal policies.
Suriname	2005	Incentives, Institutions, and Investment policy: Law	Assisted the Ministry of Finance in redrafting its Investment Law and establishing InvestSur as an Investment Promotion Agency as well as to reduce and streamline the extensive system of fiscal incentives in the country, and provide assistance in re-drafting the current investment law with its heavy focus on incentives.
El Salvador	2006	Industry Competitiveness	FIAS helped to integrate corporate social responsibility into the El Salvador’s overall development and competitiveness strategy and developed a framework for public-private partnerships in a range of social and environmental areas of concerns.
Jamaica	2006	Industry Competitiveness	FIAS assessed Jamaica tourism sector’s competitiveness, especially issues related to tourism policy and regulations, in a regional context.
Panama	2006	Industry Competitiveness	FIAS led assistance in privatizing the Howard US Air Force Base and converting it into a multi-modal logistics and ICT-driven Special Economic Zone. Following Phase I legal advisory services, Phase II assistance focused on guiding the development of the implementing regulatory framework for the project.
Argentina	1994	Institutions	Assisted in the institutional development of the Investment Promotion Agency.
Bolivia	1995	Institutions	Assisted in the institutional development of the Investment Promotion Agency.
Brazil	1996	Institutions	Developed a proposal for the creation of a national-level institution to promote inward FDI.
Caribbean Regional	2007	Institutions	This is the first phase of a project designed to improve business regulations in six members of the OECS. The project follows the approach of ongoing FIAS projects in Mexico and Brazil, which used the Doing Business indicators to raise awareness on the need to improve business regulation, generate competition among governments to improve their rankings, and build dialogue between the government and the private sector.
Colombia	2000	Institutions	Helped the national investment promotion agency (COINVERTIR) restructure its organization and funding.
El Salvador	2000	Institutions	Completed its advice on the organizational development of the National Investment Office.
Nicaragua	1999	Institutions	Helped establish an investment promotion agency.
Panama	1996	Institutions	Assisted in developing the structure and defining the functions of a new investment promotion agency.
Peru	1995	Institutions	Assisted in developing institutional capacities for promoting foreign investment.
Saint Lucia	1997	Institutions	Assisted in defining an institutional framework and exploring strategic options for investment promotion.
Venezuela	1995	Institutions	Reviewed the functioning of the promotion agency.
Antigua and Barbuda	2005	Institutions & Investment policy: Law	Assisted the Government in developing a strategy in establishing an IPA and reviewing and amending the Investment Law.
Bolivia	1996	Institutions [Implementation]	Assisted in implementing earlier recommendations for the creation of a new investment promotion institution.
Colombia	1999	Institutions/Promotion strategy	Developed a strategy and institutional framework for investment promotion.
El Salvador	1997	Institutions/ Promotion strategy	Assisted in strengthening the role of the investment agency and developing a national promotion strategy.
Paraguay	1996	Institutions/ Promotion strategy	Assisted in developing a strategy and three-year business plan for the IPA.
Jamaica	2006	Investment Laws, Policies, & Promotion	Per the request of the Planning Institute of Jamaica, FIAS conducted a detailed diagnostic of the Jamaican investment climate, including survey design and implementation. This project was co-financed by LCSFP, CICIC, DFID and FIAS.
Bahamas	1993	Investment policy	Following the diagnosis of policy issues in FY92, helped the Government draft an Investment Policy Statement.
Brazil	2001	Investment policy	Reviewed the country's current investment environment with a special emphasis on export-oriented FDI.
Costa Rica	1997	Investment policy	Assisted in developing a national strategy for strengthening the country's electronics sector.
Dominican Republic	1994	Investment policy	Reviewed the legal framework for foreign investment and made recommendations on formulating a promotion strategy.
Guyana	2004	Investment policy	Reviewed the investment code comparing it with good practice.
Honduras	1992	Investment policy	Examined the investment climate and the legal framework for foreign investment and made recommendations for reforming the legal structure for foreign investments.
Nicaragua	1999	Investment policy	Examined the country's legal framework for FDI.
Paraguay	1995	Investment policy	Assisted in the preparation of an investment policy statement.
Nicaragua	1999	Investment policy [Implementation]	Assisted with the implementation of a new legal framework for FDI.
Trinidad & Tobago	1996	Investment policy [Implementation]	Conducted a detailed study emphasizing the implementation of previosuly recommneded reforms in incentive regime, foreign investment law, and entry procedures and restrictions.
Bahamas	1992	Investment policy/Institutions	Reviewed the screening and approval procedures for investment applications, with special attention to the regulatory and institutional dimensions of the process.
El Salvador	1993	Investment policy/Institutions	Reviewed the approval procedures and regulation of private investment and suggested recommendations for the reform of the investment bureaucracy.
Trinidad & Tobago	1995	Investment policy: Corporate Taxation	Reviewed the corporate taxation system for foreign investment.
Panama	2002	Investment policy: Economic Zones	Provided policy advice and quality control on consultant inputs to the IFC on establishing a policy and legal framework for a converting a former airbase into a Special Economic Zone.
Bolivia	2002	Investment policy: Law	Reviewed a new draft law on investment proposing a tax stability mechanism for new investments.
Costa Rica	1998	Investment policy: Law	Commented on a draft proposal for the Public Works Concession Law, with a view to providing a legal framework to facilitate FDI in the infrastructure sector.
El Salvador	1997	Investment policy: Law	Assisted in drafting a new investment law.
El Salvador	1994	Investment policy: Law	Prepared a report on legal obstacles to lending to private firms, including foreign investors.
Panama	2002	Investment policy: Law	Reviewed a draft law for the establishment of a One-Stop Shop service for investors.
Suriname	2005	Investment policy: Law	Assisted the Government in amending the existing Investment Law and key related specific laws, and promoting reforms to improve the business environment in the country.
Colombia	2003	Promotion strategy	Assisted Colombia's investment promotion agency, COINVERTIR, on the international experience in structural arrangements between export and investment promotion.
Costa Rica	2000	Promotion strategy	Provided advice on improving the structure and governance of the national investment promotion agency.
Guatemala	2000	Promotion strategy	Provided assistance to the National Investment Promotion Council in formulating a promotion strategy.
Guatemala	1999	Promotion strategy	Conducted a desk review of the investment promotion agency's strategy and business plan.
Panama	2000	Promotion strategy	Examined the legal, regulatory, and administrative obstacles to FDI and provided advice on structuring a promotion agency.
Paraguay	1994	Promotion strategy	Helped in the development of legal, policy and institutional changes, after identifying the opportunities for foreign investment.
Venezuela	1993	Promotion strategy	FIAS assisted the National Investment Promotion Council (CONAPRI) develop a comprehensive strategy for promoting foreign investment.
Venezuela	1991	Promotion strategy	Assisted the National Investment Promotion Council (CONAPRI) develop a comprehensive strategy for promoting foreign investment.
Peru	2003	Promotion strategy/Institutions	Conducted a study to develop a strategic framework for promoting FDI in Peru, based on an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the country's FDI environment.
Suriname	2003	Promotion strategy/Institutions	Reviewed the government's initiative to create a new investment law and promotion agency with a focus of adjusting the country's FDI strategy.
Peru	2007	Sector: Apparel	FIAS conducted a value-chain analysis with a corporate social responsibility component of the Peruvian textile and apparel industry. The analysis was intended to provide in-depth understanding of the inefficiencies along the entire supply chain, with a focus toward prioritizing specific impediments and identifying policy interventions to further improve competitiveness.
Costa Rica	1999	Sector: Infrastructure	Helped develop legal and institutional approaches to facilitate FDI in infrastructure.
Caribbean Regional	2007	Sector: Tourism	FIAS assisted the OECS countries in strengthening the backward linkages between the tourism industry and the rest of their economies.