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Developing Economies


The MEPI economic pillar is focused on region-wide economic and employment growth driven by private sector expansion and entrepreneurship. Within the economic pillar, MEPI is concentrating on the following goal areas:

  • Investment: Encourage mobilization of foreign direct and domestic investment and facilitate revenue and employment growth of micro-enterprises and SMEs.
  • Entrepreneurship: Advancing private sector job creation.
  • Trade/Transparency: Enhance MEPI partner countries' global competitiveness.

Read about examples of success stories.

The economic pillar allocated $6 million in 2002; $38 million in 2003; $32 million in 2004; $23 million in 2005, and $12 million in 2006.

  

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