Document: Unpacking the Business and Investment Climate - Identifying possible BIC intervention strategies with a special focus on local level contributions

Business and Investment Climate focus is based on the donor community’s hope to improve the outreach and structural impact of donor interventions in the area of private sector development by consequently influencing these hindering framework conditions to economic growth.This article aims at contributing to the further practical elaboration of the Business and Investment Climate (BIC) approach by asking two questions: Which interventions make sense with regard to which BIC elements? And What contributions can local level interventions make to improving a country’s BIC?