Workshop Public Policy Index for MSMEs in LAC: Pacific Alliance and South America

The SME PI is a tool designed to evaluate and monitor public policies aimed at encouraging the economic dynamism of MSMEs, thus enabling the evaluation of decision-making processes, ensuring the comparability of results among countries and facilitating the exchange of experiences in the field of public policies for MSMEs.

The Permanent Secretariat of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA), jointly with the National Institute of the Entrepreneur (INADEM) of the Secretariat of Economy of Mexico and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), will hold the “Workshop to launch the Public Policy Index for MSMEs in Latin America and the Caribbean (IPPALC): Pacific Alliance and South America” in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, on 15 and 16 May 2017. This workshop aims to:

• Provide a space to share national views within the framework of the adoption of the IPPALC.
• Optimize the procedural framework designed by the Permanent Secretariat for the successful implementation of the IPPALC.
• Review and validate the assessment questionnaires for each dimension of the IPPALC in accordance with the needs and characteristics of countries.

The Public Policy Index for MSMEs in Latin America and the Caribbean (IPPALC) is a conceptual and methodological adaptation by the Permanent Secretariat and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) of the OECD’s SME Policy Index (SME PI) methodology, which was created in 2006 and has since been implemented in 32 countries, through regional assessments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, Southeast Europe and Turkey, the Association of Southeast Asia (ASEAN), and Eastern Europe and Central Asia (Eurasia).

The SME PI is a tool designed to evaluate and monitor public policies aimed at encouraging the economic dynamism of MSMEs, thus enabling the evaluation of decision-making processes, ensuring the comparability of results among countries and facilitating the exchange of experiences in the field of public policies for MSMEs.

Since 2015, when the document “Methodological considerations for developing an Index of Public Policies for SMEs in Latin America and the Caribbean” was prepared and presented, the Permanent Secretariat has promoted the dissemination of this tool in order to promote its adoption and implementation in the region.

In this regard, and as a follow-up from the effort made in 2015, the Permanent Secretariat prepared in 2016 the document “Update Study on the Public Policy Index for SMEs in Latin America and the Caribbean (IPPALC)”, which deals with the status of public policies for SMEs in the region and presents a detailed procedural framework for its implementation.

This activity is aimed at governmental focal points for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises of the Member States of the Pacific Alliance and South America (Argentina, Ecuador and Uruguay), regional and international organizations.