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| Assessing Investor Roadmap Applications Worldwide |
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Recent improvements in several countries’ investment climate are often attributed to the application of two widely-used development tools, specifically designed to identify regulatory and administrative barriers to private investment and trade: - The Investor Roadmap (USAID)
- Administrative Barriers to Investment (the World Bank Foreign Investment Advisory Service)
Because these tools have not in fact been consistently effective in promoting reform, USAID commissioned IRIS (under its AMAP Enabling Environment IQC) to analyze past performance as a way of identifying the most successful conditions for future applications of these tools.
IRIS analyzed over fifty Investor Roadmap and Administrative Barrier projects, to address questions such as the following:- Do the Roadmaps target the most important barriers to investment?
- Does the Roadmap identify and prioritize barriers successfully?
- How (and where) has it had useful effects?
- If it has not proven effective in some cases, why not?
The project produced a comprehensive summary of Investor Roadmap and Administrative Barrier projects, including updated information about business environment conditions. The varying reform outcomes of these projects were reviewed and analyzed, to produce- Improvements in the roadmap model
- Enhanced credibility of the roadmap “technology”
- Better understanding of the appropriate contexts for roadmap applications
- Best approaches for implementing roadmaps in future applications
For information about the AMAP-EE consortium, please see the AMAP /EE IQC description. |
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| Donor: U.S. Agency for International Development |
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| Dates: September 2003 - January 2005 |
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Project Director: Cynthia Clement
E-mail: clement@iris.umd.edu |
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| Last updated on: 12/15/2006 |
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