Brazil at a glance
Brazil's regulatory environment supports the creation of businesses and provides a high level of protection for insolvency. This promotes competition between suppliers which, coupled with a resilient financial sector, helps to attract capital supply for infrastructure projects. The funding capacity of the Brazilian government, together with slow economic growth, indicates potential challenges in publicly funding future major infrastructure projects.
Brazil has three tiers of government operating under a civil law legal system. The Brazilian Constitution sets forth the main guidelines for the infrastructure sector, and indicates which authorities are responsible for each asset. The Federal Government is currently the primary level of government delivering infrastructure, through agencies, state-owned enterprises, and project preparation facilities.
Top Performing Metrics
This is defined by the metrics with the highest unweighted score out of 100.
This tracks investment opportunities in projects prepared by BNDES and provides useful information on featured sectors of the Brazilian economy.
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PPPs, Privitizations
The Investment Partnerships Program (PPI) aims to expand and strengthen the interaction between the Brazilian Government and the private sector by entering into partnership contracts and other privatisation measures. The projects that qualify under the PPI will be treated as national priorities. These projects deal with infrastructure in several areas, such as transportation, energy, oil and gas, privatisation, urban mobility, public lighting, the ESG agenda, environmental licensing, and others. In addition to federal assets, there is in the PPI a specific support area to promote projects in subnational entities.
Project Tracker
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Concessions, PPPs, privatisations
The LATAM Projects Hub platform is a regional hub that collates all infrastructure and energy opportunities in a pipeline for private investment in the region. It provides up-to-date information on opportunities and tracks information across the whole project lifecycle.
Forward Pipeline
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The CIPI provides centralised information on infrastructure investment projects funded with federal public resources (fiscal and social security budgets).
Project Tracker
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This platform disseminates information on investments and sustainability in the main sectors of the Brazilian Economy to promote improvement of planning and regulation, public interest, and transparency.
Forward Pipeline
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The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) is a state-owned enterprise focused on long-term fundraising and loan activities with a mandate to support programs, projects, and services related to economic and social development in the country. It operates both directly and through a wide range of intermediaries to both large enterprises and the micro, small, and medium segment with senior loans of 10- to 25-year tenors as the major project. The bank has total assets of USD216.5 billion (2018) and provides project preparation and technical assistance to its clients. Its major sector coverage is electricity (generation and transmission), transport (roads, rail, and ports), and renewable energy (hydroelectric, wind, and solar). Explore the GI Hub National Infrastructure Banks tool here, and learn more about the BNDES here.
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