Promoting Trade and Investment in Constrained Environments: A.I.D. Experience inLatin America and the Caribbean

摘要

The report reviews 15 trade and investment projects for the Agency forInternational Development (A.I.D.) in Latin America and the Caribbean. The report classifies the 15 projects according to three generic types: the transmitter approach; the facilitator approach, and the promoter approach. The report concludes that the promoter approach seems best suited to the weak productive structure and volatile policy environments within which A.I.D. projects typically operate. The three major strengths of the promoter approach are its high degree of targeting, its focus on demonstrating project impacts early on, and its flexibility in allowing project managers to change the objectives, scope, and level of funding of a project in response to market forces.