Better Conditions for Productivity (MAP)

The Better Conditions for Productivity, or Mejorando el Ambiente Productivo (MAP) provides technical assistance to studies and activities in priority areas aimed at improving the business environment and implementing more effective productive development policies in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The MAP is meant to facilitate action to reduce or eliminate barriers to private sector growth. These include regulatory, administrative and institutional barriers that increase operating costs and reduce business transparency.

The MAP also focuses on market failures caused by external factors, poor coordination or asymmetric information – factors that limit the use of capital and limit business growth.

In such cases, the MAP tries to determine how governments solve these problems with policies that promote areas such as productivity, access to capital, the lowering of barriers that prevent businesses from joining the formal sector and businesses expansion.

These assessments, along with innovative, small-scale projects, provide lessons that may be replicable in other areas of a country or in other countries in the region.

A public-private initiative

The MAP prioritizes certain areas of intervention, based on activities carried out by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) as part of its Business Climate Initiative (BCI). The MAP is open to participation by governments and private sector institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean committed to improving the productive environment. The MAP is supported by the Fondo General de Cooperación de España and executed by the Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Division, part of the IDB Institutional Capacity and Finance Department.

MAP Projects and Resources

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