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Last Published: 9/30/2019

The Commercial Service maintains Commercial Liaison Offices in each of the main Multilateral Development Banks, including the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank. These institutions lend billions of dollars in developing countries on projects aimed at accelerating economic growth and social development by reducing poverty and inequality, improving health and education, and advancing infrastructure development. The Commercial Liaison Offices help American businesses learn how to get involved in bank-funded projects, and advocate on behalf of American bidders. Learn more by contacting the:

Multilateral Development Banks are present and help companies with financing. A recent example of the aid such banks have given involving infrastructure and the Metro Line 2 is as follows, with a total of $5.8 billion are being financed from a number of sources. MDL2 will invest $1.6 billion while nearly half of the financing will come directly from the government of Peru. Multilateral support for the project is estimated at:
  • A $300 million loan from the IBRD
  • A $400 million non-sovereign guaranteed loan from the IDB, managed by the Inter-American Investment Corporation
  • A $50 million loan from the China Co-Financing Fund for Latin America and the Caribbean, under the management of the IDB
  • A $300 million sovereign guaranteed loan from the IDB
  • A $200 million loan from Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW)
  • A $150 million loan from the Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF)
  • A €120.4 million loan from the Agence Française de Développement (AFD)

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