Economic Pillar

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.
  

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