DI' 'l~ I , H I,, 11i lilloo ~ji~p~~i ZiUj AkI' I A N FOREWORD ........................... Akira lida has been at the helm of MIGA for five years, and in that time he and his excellent team have developed the company to become a leader and standard setter in the field of investment promotion and political risk insurance. During this period MlGA has emerged into an organization that is committed to client service and to the fulfillment of the development objectives of the World Bank Group. This book sets forth Mr. Iida's views in his own particular way, with each chapter explaining the business philosophy and the strategic plans which he and his colleagues have brought to the service of the worldwide business community. Readers will gain a fascinating insight into the thought, planning, innovation and periodic and bold initiatives which have characterized Akira lida's management style. He and his team have demonstrated an unshakable commitment to improve conditions in the world's poorer nations through investment marketing and political risk mitigation. This book reflects a record of commitment and achievement. James D. Wolfensohn ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS................ It was possible to publish this book through the contributions of Ms. May Eidi who worked on the design of the book, helped with editing and discussed the publication plan with the World Bank Publisher. The following members of MIGA supported me in devel- oping the institution into an excellent company: Mr. Leigh Hollywood and his Guaran- tees team; Mr. Luis Dodero and his legal team; Mr. Martin Hartigan and Ms. Karin Millett and the Investment Marketing Services team; Messrs John Griffith and Dan Conway and the administrative, finance and personnel team. My thanks also go to Messrs. Manfred Beutgen and Lutz Halfmann who were my German counterparts when I worked for the Japanese ED's office in the World Bank 27 years ago. Both of them gladly accepted my offer to join MIGA and were good advisors to me. The achievement of the above team is shown in the annex. Finally, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Mr. Ibrahim F. I. Shihata, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank for his precious counsel not only for the publication of this book but also for solutions of various problems I encountered in MIGA. 40 TABLE OF CONTENTS................. MIGA - The Standard-Setter of Investment Promotion Business 4 Corporate Values of MIGA 12 Information Sharing between the Public and Private Sectors 20 MIGA and UNIDO 28 Capital Increase Shift 34 Business Relationship between the IBRD, MIGA and Export Credit Agencies 42 World Bank Guarantee and MIGA Guarantee 46 Launching of Prototype - IPAnet 52 Denver Speech on African Mining Investment Conference 56 Marketing a Country 60 Policy Matters of MIGA 66 Launching the Concept of the IPAnet 70 Africa IPA Round Table Address 74 The Role of MIGA in the Western Provinces of China 78 The Special Role of MIGA in the World Bank Group 86 Prospects for Japanese and U.S. Policies in the Asia and Pacific Region in the l990s 92 ANNEXES - MIGA Business Profile 99 g~~~~~in Dunyai DerXg m r~~~~~~~SABL TURKEY g 2 g g ~~~~~ebuy 19 1997 g Ti spehwstekyoeadesa hebsns inro iasDnai ls_ bl They *ian Duys sagopormnetlaeso h uks _uins couuiy bu 0 epewr nteadecsadwsh us sp a e . I t i d t n r d c I A t t e g o p a d t o u s i n b u h prctca aset fMGs bsns nrlto o h hk Weooy lot pehIret eiehwMG odce t uies_teps fi e y a s e t n t e s a d r n v ri u s e t fi ve t e t p o o i n MIGA THE STANDARD-SETrER OF INVESTMENT PROMOTION BUSINESS Speech by Mr. Akira Iida Executive Vice President MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT GUARANTEE AGENCY at the Finans Dunyasi Dergisi, Istanbul, Turkey February 19, 1997 the form of FDI of about $6.6 billion. There- I. LINiKODUCTIN 8 fore, you may understand, why I say that MIGA's role as a catalyzer of private FDI Ladies and gentlemen: It is a great plea- has already reached a level of significance. sure for me to be able to address the intel- lectual leaders of the Turkish business com- (2) MIGA: TheDiffuserofPrivateFDIFlow munity this evening. As you know, I have arranged that MIGA's Annual Report and The next figure that I would like to Business Profile Brochure be circulated to quote is about the concentration of FDI you before this event. Therefore, I assume flows toward developing countries. The net that you already know, vaguely, what FDI flow toward developing countries was MIGA is all about and how its business has $90 billion in CY95, and the World Debt evolved in its short history. Tables indicate that 80% of those FDI flows concentrate in the top 12 countries. They However, let me explain to you two are: China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hungary, facts to start with: Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Thailand, Chile, Poland, Greece and Nigeria. Two facts Let me compare this figure with (1) MIGA: The Catalyzer of Private FDI MIGA's portfolio. MIGA's outstanding guarantee exposure is about $2.3 billion. First, MIGA started its guarantee busi- This guarantee portfolio covers 40 devel- ness from scratch seven years ago. This oping countries. To compare with the data business has now reached a level of signifi- from the World Debt Tables, the share of cance in FY96. The amount of risk cover- those top 12 countries in MIGA's guaran- age underwritten in the last financial year tee exposure is only 30%. This means that (July '95-June '96) was about $900 mil- 70% of MIGA's exposure is going to other lion and this has facilitated investment in countries. Among those other countries .............................................................5 there are 13 IDA countries which receive For all these reasons, the customer about 25% of MIGA's guarantees. This survey (which MIGA regularly conducts) comparison shows that MIGA is clearly demonstrates that customers generally playing a role to diffuse private FDl flows maintain a high regard for the agency's to developing countries. Therefore, I will services. I have to confess that MIGA's pre- claim that MIGA be regarded as a "diffuser mium rate is rather on the high side as com- of private FDI flows." pared to that of national agencies. Never- theless, MIGA's clients are excellent companies. They claim that they are cut- II. MIGA:IThE ~~~~~ting costs to be competitive in the market and they are willing to purchase risk cov- STANDARDoETILtR erage, if necessary. This evidence shows that MIGA is clearly setting the standard about But this is not the subject on which I would the quality of the product in the political like to speak this evening. risk insurance market. I would like MIGA to be regarded B. MIGA's Impact on the Political Risk also as the "standard-setter" of investment Insurance Market promotion business. To illustrate this I should like to take up four subjects in the Now, let me talk about MIGA's impact on following order: the Political Risk Insurance Market. (a) product quality MIGA is also setting standards in the (b) impact on the market insurance market. When MIGA was cre- (c) transparency and govemance issues ated in 1988, the private insurers were al- (d) standard setting in technical assis- most non-existent in the long-term invest- tance activities ment insurance market; or, if they were, the period of risk coverage was limited to only A. Setting the Standard of Guarantee three years at the most. Therefore, it was, Product Quality so to speak, a monopoly market for the national agencies to protect the overseas First, product quality. The quality of investments of their national investors. MIGA's insurance product can be summa- rized in the following context: However, MIGA's claims-free record, that has continued during the past seven (1) MIGA insurance has both simplic- years, has signaled that political risk insur- ity and flexibility of contract design. ance activities could be a new business (2) MIGA, being an intemational agency, possibility for private insurers as well.And, possesses stronger problem-solving in the recent couple of years, we have ob- capacity as compared to national or served some private risk insurers coming private insurance companies. into the political risk insurance business, In addition, not only in trade, but also in investment. (3) There is no doubt about MIGA's ca- Some insurers have extended coverage pacity to make claims payments by from the traditional 3 years to 7 years and virtue of the fact that this is an insti- more. In addition, some of the reinsurers tution within the World Bank Group in Bermuda have come to offer reinsurance and member-governments provide to such political risk insurers. If MIGA's an ample solvency cushion. success in the past has triggered this kind 6 Ti h. Gurzne Acifi- P1 0 through - FY19 ~FY190FJ91F1 P1793P' 99 FY95 F 996 TOTAL NumbefDoamatee~~~~~ 4 It 21 2~~7 38 5 8 223 m -3 - -a --9 -- 313 - 37 72 ::-6---: 2 2,7S4 A EateAniw~ Creat vCoutrlea 2700 3,680 --2920 1,220 7,80 8--800-.7<2 :34,820. of favorable development in the private in- procedure in these respects together with surance market, it is gratifying not only to its sister organizations within the World us but also to investors at large. MIGA will Bank Group. be very pleased to collaborate with private insurers and reinsurers to enlarge the scope D. Standard-Setting in Technical and depth of the market. Assistance for IPAs/Investment Marketing Services C. Transparency and Governance Lastly, let me touch upon the standard set- The next subject is the harmonization of ting in technical assistance activities of the Corporate Values and Societal Values. MIGA. MIGA offers certain technical as- Here, I am talking about Transparency and sistance through its Investment Marketing Governance Issues. Services Department in order to comple- ment its Guarantee Services. MIGA is also trying to set high stan- dards for its products by upholding those In the case of MIGA's guarantees, its values commonly accepted by a society. In clients are very agile private investors who this modern world of business, "transpar- find projects by themselves, conduct feasi- ency of business" and "external surveillance bility study by themselves, and if it is found on institutional governance" have to be feasible, both financially and technically, given high priority. Until very recently, they will arrange financing of the project business society at large, including national with their own bankers. And only if they agencies, have been very keen about the are concerned with political risk features confidentiality of private transactions and of the project will they come to purchase did not show due respect for disclosure and risk coverage from MIGA. When MIGA inspection. However, today, a public insti- removes those concerns by its insurance tution has to demonstrate appropriate re- coverage, the capital will flow, finally. sponse to those concerns coming from Therefore, MIGA insurance plays an instru- other stakeholders while, of course, provid- mental role for developmental purposes. ing due respect to the confidentiality of proprietary information obtained from the However, there are many other fac- project owner. The question is how to strike tors which affect investment decision-mak- the balance between the interests of pri- ing. Political risk insurance is only one of vate investors and those of stakeholders, if those. More importantly, investors have to there are conflicts between them. MIGA identify a suitable project and have to con- is, therefore, looking into a new policy or duct a feasibility study. What assistance do *-S*-*@O.OS*.SS.S.@S@OSO.eS.eeOe.Oe@eS..@. 7 they have to obtain to secure reliable in- (1) MIGA willassist national IPAs in dis- formation in these respects? seminating information on invest- oment opportunities. In the aftermath of the debt crisis (2 e MIGA will assist national IPAs in during the 1980s, people came to realize their own capacity building in terms the importance of FDI. In recognition of of marketing the country and the in- the desirability of FDI, the governments in vestment opportunities and manag- many developing countries started to cre- ing relations with potential clients ate Pnvestment Promotion Agencies(IPAs) through MiS software or through with various names such as Foreign Invest- training and workshops. ment Promotion Board, Tourism Bureau, (3) MIGA will conduct direct support Bureau of Mines, etc. to their activities in terms of sector- wide promotion activities such as In 1993, MIGA gave to these agen- mining and tourism in a multi-coun- cies a generic term and an acronym: IPA, try effort. which stands for Investment Promotion Agency. Whether they are separated from We renamed MIGAs technical assis- regulatory authority or not, these are agen- tance activities for IPAs the "Investment cies which will play an instrumental role MarketingServices" MS)-inother words, in attracting FDI to the countries to supple- MIGA has completely withdrawn from so- ment and complement insufficient domes- called policy advisory services, leaving them tic savings to financ1 oe mdevelopment in the caref our sister organizations such needs of the country. MIGA has reformed as the World Bank and IFC. MIGA is now its technical assistance services in 1994 and a partner of national IPAs to jointly pro- decided to assist those national IPAs in mote FDI for development purposes. Here, three dimensions: MIGA has set a number of standards: 8~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~~~~~~wd promotion....activities....such.. as (a) a standard regarding the direction of IPAs may learn what the concerns of in- the investment promotion effort. vestors are and what information is neces- (b) a standard in sharpening up the dif- sary to reach investment decisions. Train- ferences with other institutions, of- ing is also made available for managers or fering technical assistance. trainers of national IPAs. In this way, MIGA is clearly setting standards of quality for Let me illustrate these in more de- investment promotion services worldwide. tail. Firstly, as early as 1993, MIGA launched the concept of IPAnet, which was Thirdly, MIGA initiated multi-coun- to explore the possibility of the Internet try promotion efforts for two major sec- for dissemination of information on invest- tors that were neglected in the 1980s, ei- ment opportunities. In 1994, we launched ther due to the debt crisis of the 1980s or the prototype model of IPAnet. In 1995, due to the belief that tourism has to be we launched Version 1 of IPAnet and in dealt with by private sector initiative. When 1996, Versions 2 and 3. These efforts, which MIGA initiated the African mining con- have utilized top-ranking technology, have ference in Denver in May 1994, 18 Afri- resulted in the setting up of the most ad- can mining ministers were invited to meet vanced scheme of information shopping with major mining companies in the North mall which will enable information shar- American continent and from Europe and ing between the public sector (national Asia. It was continued in subsequent years governments and international agencies) in Toronto and Montreal. This year, it is and private sector investors and research- going back to Denver. The number of Af- ers. It is greatly in use by a wide range of rican countries participating increased to users from 90 nations free of charge, and more than 30, and they report that the IPAs and private companies are rushing to number of queries from potential investors take up billboards paying $2,000 per year has significantly increased as a result. Mar- to provide correct information on real-time keting skill improved significantly and re- basis regarding the products and services ally contributed to the increase of invest- they are selling and investment opportu- ment flow into the African mining sector. nities and factors affecting investment de- This success of multi-country promotion cisions. This information includes that of activities has been replicated for the South- the contact point to get more information ern Republics of the former Soviet Union and to clarify questions. Information in the in the last two years. It was also replicated IPAnet is being continuously updated by for Tourism in Latin America and the Car- the providers themselves. ibbean, Asia and the Middle East. Secondly, MIGA developed manage- While the World Bank was shying ment information system (MiS) software away from tourism sector lending in the which can be installed on PCs of IPAs in 1970s and '80s, the tourism market has order to keep track of ongoing relations or grown significantly. Attracting the tourism past relations with their own client inves- flow is vital for certain nations' foreign tors. Version 2 of the MiS, which is com- exchange earnings. patible with Windows, is now available for any IPA that wishes to utilize it in order to Within the changing environment upgrade their intemal business handling ca- where ecological concerns have to be ad- pabilities. MIGA also runs many work- dressed with much careful analysis, many shops in which participants from national national governments have changed their .............* ........... ...............*.0 9 T. 3. M; * .D F0ein fra nvsten mind to develop eco-friendly tourism ment is taking more of a leadership role in projects where they can take a leadership promoting tourism projects for the ben- role in appropriate infrastructure building, efit of local development or harmonized balanced development of the service sec- distribution of income to avoid the con- tor, leisure industry, creating jobs and de- centration of employment in cities. MvIGA's mand for goods and services from the lo- entry into multi-country promotion in the cal economy. In a sense, in the '90s, many tourism sector was very timely. Today, governments of developing nations have MIGA, although small in size, is a major changed their strategy: rather than let the player in the tourism sector promotion private sector handle everything, gover- business. 10 A.. ............................0 ..0.0... Il.- CONCLUSION So far, I have explained how MIGA is tak- ing an innovative approach in the invest- ment promotion business and how it sets a standard both in guarantee and in invest- ment marketing services. We are an insti- tution of less than 100 people serving 139 full member countries. The size of the bud- get and personnel employed are very small, indeed, yet I am very happy to report to you that we have been able to find good supporters who are willing to purchase in- novative ideas and quality products backed by client orientation. Although the world economy continues to be turbulent and volatile, it is heartening to observe that there is still room for a small international business to succeed and play a leadership role. Thank you very much for your kind atten- tion. SIIH QN "CORPORATE VALUES OF MIGK MIGA LUNcHEON IMF-World Bank Group Annual Meetings 1996 WASHINGTON, D.C. October 1996 This speech was delivered at the MIGA luncheon, traditiqnally held during the Annual Meetings of the TMF-World Bank Group institutions. The audience was comprised of the representatives of private sector MIGA clients, leaders of na- tional and regional guarantee agencies, representatives of shareholders, etc. In this speech, I defined MIGNs corporate values (speed and qualiiy and further, went on to define the factors which will determine the quality of our guarantee products. This is the first lime, I believe, that the quality of insurance product was defined. While others have touched on quality, often in the abstract, I have not been able to find written material that delves into the substance of the matter. My speech also deals with bureauacy, which any institution has to deal with. Since the World Bank Group was under the change-management initiative launched by President Wolfensohn, this speech was timely. MIGA's CORPORATE VALUES (Values of the Converted) i Speech by Mr. Akira Iida Executive Vice President MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT GUARANTEE AGENCY at the MIGA Luncheon October 1, 1996 Ladies and gentlemen: It is a great plea- I was talking about the Annual Report, sure for me to welcome you to this lun- some of you have already gone through the cheon which has become a MIGA tradi- Report and the Brochure and have already tion since 1992. Walking on the streets of figured out how it can help you to under- Washington, DC, one can notice many stand MIGA's business. My purpose has shops proclaiming "since 1962," "since been achieved, so I will stop talking about 1939," etc. Coming from a country of old the Annual Report! traditions, one will be struck by a strange feeling for an instant, but will then realize These days, corporate executives may be how important "tradition" is to this young asked a lot of questions: nation. Likewise, MIGA, as a young insti- * What are the objectives of your busi- tution, wants to keep the good traditions. ness? The same applies to the size of the Annual * What are your strategies? Report also. As you know, the Annual Re- * What are the guiding principles of port of the World Bank and the IFC are your business? both American letter-size (approximately * What is your vision? A4 size), whereas MIGA's is the smaller * What are your values? B5 size. I can imagine how thick it will be- come if the World Bank and the IFC These questions may come from adopted B5 size for their Annual Reports. your Board, your boss, your staff, or your There may be other reasons for them to clients. If you can write up a paper on these opt for American letter-size. But it is not questions in one or two hours explaining our problem. Our major concern is how the conceptual difference between objec- to attract the reader's eye to our activities. tives, strategies, business principles, vision, The Annual Report is one important mar- values, etc., and give some thoughts on keting instrument of MIGA. Therefore, it what they should be in the case of your is designed as a handy guide book on business, you are a truly great bureaucrat.' MIGA's business. MIGA's Business Profile 'As to the 'objective" of MIGA, it is very simply explained brochure is edited to give a self-explana- in the Annual Report. As to the "strategies" of MIGA, this tory view of MIGA's business over the past has been discussed with the Board during the Budget dis- cussion. As to the "Guiding Principles" of business, it was seven years. clarified in the Summer of 1994 and Mr Wolfensohn made it clear that he will support it. "Vision" will include all aspects of the above three, and it will be shaped more Non-standardized size of the Report, importantly on the basis of the analysis of the situation a lot of photos and charts are just adopted where the business stands. It is often a statement of lead- ership which is subjective rather than objective and, by its to attract the client's attention. Now, while nature, provocative rather than persuasive. . . . . . . . . . * * * . * * * * .. . .. * * . * . * . . * . *.. * . . * * . * * 13 The late Mr. Preston, the former president make sense. Let me talk about the values of the World Bank, came to a farewell re- of the Converted today. ception for an ex-official of the Japanese Ministry of Finance (MoF) and raised a MIGA is committed to provide its question in his speech: "The World Bank quality services to its clients in a timely and MoF - which is more bureaucratic?" manner. In other words, "speed and quality" Nobody dared answer that question. are the corporate values to which MIGA attaches the utmost importance. When Mr. Wolfensohn came in as the new president of the World Bank last year, About "speed" there will be no need I told him this anecdote. He asked me, for further explanation. However, it may "What do you think?" I replied, "Well, Mr. be useful to reflect upon what the quality Wolfensohn, whether it is of the Bank or of the insurance product is. How do you of the MoF, if the bureaucracy cannot help define the quality of the insurance service? increase business efficiency, it should be This is the question and here is my answer: called "idio-cracy" rather than "bureau- cracy". Bureaucrats came into being in the They are: 17th century to protect the French mon- arch from various risks and to provide effi- (a) The simplicity and flexibility of the ciency in his administration which was ever insurance contract design. expanding.2 I don't know whether my an- (b) Liquidity cushion to secure claim swer was right or not, but it is a fact that payment. both bureaucracies are underfire today. In (c) Problem-solving capacity backing up the World Bank, under the strong leader- the insurance contract. ship of Mr. Wolfensohn, the process of (d) Innovative approach in exploring the Change Management has started to rebuild potential of the insurance market its business culture. Mr. Wolfensohn and (corollary, positive impact on the in- the Bank's management are determined to surance market). reduce its bureaucracy. And in Japan, MoF (e) Favorable impact on other values is under strong political attack because of commonly upheld by society (e.g., its power concentration. Some sort of re- environmental standards). structuring of MoF may be inevitable. You may ask, then, am I not a bureaucrat my- Let me explain these factors affect- self? My answer is "yes" and "no." "Yes, I ing the quality of insurance services one was a bureaucrat until 7 years ago - but by one, learning from the experience of no more". "VVWat are you, then?" "Well, I MIGA. am the Converted," I should say. Indeed, MICA staff are the group of the converted. FrLIe~,<~jnfeii4 We reject any form of bureaucracy and we o k are committed to creating a new business culture and a new tradition which will The design and structure of the product has to be user-friendly and it should be simple to understand and flexible to respond 2The determinant factor which distinguishes "The Rising to the users' needs. As you know, MIGA has French Monarchy" from "the twilight of Imperial Spain" in the early half of the 17th century is the strength of very complicated operational regulations Richelieu's centralized bureaucracy and the weakness of which were designed from the viewpoint Olivares' bureaucracy in uniting the divided interests of Imperial Spain. of prudential control and prevention of 14 .................... ...o *. o. . o. . .o. .. deviation from its developmental mandate. priation to flexibly meet clients' needs in a Nevertheless, I am very pleased to report simple and understandable way. to you that, despite this complexity, MIGA has designed and developed its product SSetond: iUiz ty ;chion_to which is simple to understand and flexibly seure cLm paynt -.: meeting the needs of clients. Another generic factor determining the Let us take an example in certain quality of the insurance product is, of "breach of contract" by central and local course, institutional capacity to meet the governments. This type of claim case is ac- claims. Even if the contract is simple and tually taking place from time to time in user-friendly, if MIGA cannot pay the certain countries where the "rule of law" is claim, it is entirely useless. In this context, a relatively new experience. Sometimes it let me draw your attention to page 15 of takes the form of retroactive taxation by the Business Profile (page 112 in Annexes). municipalities or other local governments. You will find there MIGA's rate of return Usually, in order to make a case for breach on assets (ROA). It was declining until 1992, of contract, the claimant has to establish but since then it has recovered remarkably that there was such a breach of contract and it has reached a level of excellence. In by the government. In most cases, the coun- other words, in the usual standard of cor- terpart government will argue against the porate business, MIGA is a profitable in- case. As far as the dispute is not settled, stitution. But, I have to immediately add a the insured will not get paid. In any insur- qualification to this remark by saying that ance agency, whether public or private, the MIGA is not a profit-seeking institution - claim payment has to be audited and there as a member of the World Bank Group, should be enough evidence which will jus- MIGA is a development institution and its tify such a payment. I am saying here that mandate is to promote Foreign Direct In- breach of contract is certainly one kind of vestment (FDI), not to seek maximization political risk for which private investors of profit. MIGA's Convention requires wish to obtain risk coverage. However, le- MIGA management to allocate all of its net gally speaking, this is the most arguable area income to reserves until it reaches 5 times in the risk insurance business. Against this the total subscribed capital. Therefore, all background, the concept of "creeping ex- the net income MIGA is producing is put propriation" has been developed whereby to reserves to meet future claims. the insured will get paid only if the simple fact is established that the business cannot The evolution of MIGA's premium be continued because of any action or income is illustrated on page 6 of the Pro- inaction by central or local governments, file brochure (page 103 in Annexes). For etc. In this case, you don't need to argue FY97, the projected premium income is whether the contract was breached, who about US$27 million. How much claims is responsible - central or local govern- payment will be expected in the future? We ment, etc. The client has to establish that don't know. We are still running a claim-free certain action or inaction by governments record, but let us assume just for illustrative to which the client is not responsible has purposes that 0.5% of the total cumulative caused enormous difficulties which will amount of contingent liabilities may be oblige them to discontinue the business. claimed in each year. The order of the This is one example of the innovative ap- annual claims payment may be US$11.5 proach to enlarge the concept of expro- million. The rationale for assuming a 0.5% ........................... .................................,.15 figure as an ordinary stream of claim pay- lem first. They will try to stay in the host ment (as a usual business expenditure in country as far as it is possible to. An exit the insurance industry) comes from the from the business is the last choice which experience of one of the largest and oldest they will make. national insurance programs. Since we do not have an actuarial basis in the field of The clients of MIGA expect certain long-term investment risk insurance busi- problem-solving capacity from MIGA. In ness, I have just borrowed this statistical the case of bilateral agencies, they may con- experience of our partner institution. But ceive of economic sanctions at a time of the comparison of the possible order of bilateral conflicts. In more ancient times, annual claims and the annual premium they brought warships and cannons to solve earning capacity tells us that MIGA has the problem and this is still happening to- enough capacity to deal with such an ordi- day in certain areas. But, as an international nary claim payment as experienced by na- organization, we have no cannons and no tional agencies in an average year. Never- warships. We have to solve the problem theless, if a large extraordinary claim takes amicably. But, it is to be remembered that place, MIGA's reserves may be wiped out the host country government is also a share- in one or two shots and consequently, holder of MIGA with which MIGA con- MIGA may be vulnerable to the consecu- cluded an investment protection agree- tive occurrence of extraordinary claims. ment. As far as continuation of governance Because MIGA has callable capital, there is secured, member country governments is no doubt about MIGAs solvency - but are willing to collaborate with MIGA to here I am talking about the liquidity cush- solve the cases. In fact, we have experienced ion to meet claims. In order to cope with during '94/'95 a kind of near miss case in this concern, and also for the purpose of which MIGA was very successful in col- gaining more guarantee capacity to stay in laborating with both parties (investors and business, MIGA is now addressing the capi- host country governments) in order for tal adequacy issue. One of the concems for them to reach an amicable solution, and MIGA clients is whether the shareholder the investor opted to stay in the country. governments will provide enough cash in- MIGA's mediation function is also at work jection for MIGA to be able to meet a series in various investment disputes in Africa, of consecutive extraordinary claims. In this the Caribbean and Asia. This kind of prob- respect, I will report to you on the outcome lem-solving capacity will clearly represent of our negotiations probably next year. the quality of MIGA services. To get a claim payment and to exit from the place of business are not the ultimate (Corollary: positive impact on the goals of our clients. They have planned the insurance market) investment projects which MIGA insures and spent a lot of staff time and financial The innovativeness of the business ap- resources to prepare the project. This is the proach also determines the quality of ser- business from which they want to raise the vices. In this respect, I would like to point appropriate level of profits. Therefore, out that MIGA has already started the so- whenever there is a conflict surrounding called CUP (Cooperative Underwriting their business, they want to solve the prob- Program) in which MIGA will ask private 16 . .... o.. ............................... insurers to join MIGA's guarantee program of MIGA's existing portfolio allowing pri- in a sort of collective coinsurance scheme vate firms to receive a portion of the pre- and to delegate the power of claims- mium income stream of MIGA deriving handling to MIGA. This approach has been from a set of existing portfolio and also and is being explored in Jamaica, Indone- requiring the same firms to share the re- sia, Colombia and Argentina and is esti- sponsibilities to meet claims on a prorata mated to grow further. The CUP Program basis when such claims arise from a com- was born out of MIGA's need to minimize ponent of the selected portfolio. The right the utilization of guarantee capacity in one of receiving premium and obligations to project, in order to catalyze the maximum meet claims will be the major component number of projects with a small amount of the security. This idea is just an exten- of guarantee capacity utilization. However, sion of the concept of proportional treaty quite recently, there seems to be some fa- practice, just emerging in the insurance vorable change in the private insurance market. I am simply suggesting that the market. The so-called proportional treaty window for a new opportunity may be may seem to be emerging in the private opening. We will still need to explore the insurance market as an instrument for pri- sense of the market but we try to be inno- vate insurers to participate in and explore vative in our business transactions. All this the potential of the long-term political risk exploration is necessitated by the small insurance business. Until recently, private capitalization of MIGA. A proportional firms were quasi-non-existent in this par- treaty will economize future utilization of ticular business area simply because of the guarantee capacity, and securitization will lack of an actuarial basis for measuring risk. increase the headroom for underwriting at However, recently the American Interna- the expense of reduced premium income. tional Group (AIG) has decided to go into However limited the possibility of such this business area vith an insurance period undertakings is in terms of volume, we of 7 or more years. MIGA welcomes this ought to be innovative enough to explore change as a positive development and as a fully the possibilities of the market, and challenge for building new relationships of this will be one of the roles expected of an complementarity. I gather that this kind of international organization such as MIGA. recent change in the private insurance market has something to do with the suc- So far, I have touched upon the qual- cess of MIGA. "MIGA has made a case that ity of MIGA's services especially from the it can run a business, starting from scratch, client's point of view. But, there are other with a claim-free record and much profit- qualities of service demanded by the fact ability. The demand in the market seems that MIGA is an intemational agency. to increase and there seems to be unsatis- . fied demand. Although there is no reliable FiFavota. at on actuarial data, this is an attractive area. Why oithef males o oWdy acee don't we try to test the water?" This may .y socetyK - be the likely line of thought in the private insurer's mind. And if so, it is gratifying to The principles of transparency and of in- observe that MIGA is having a positive stitutional accountability have to be re- impact in the market through its success spected. In my personal view, the corpo- story. rate business culture of the 1 990s in certain industrialized countries has changed to a The proportional treaty may open great extent from that of the 1980s. We have another window - for the securitization crossed the point of no return. Disclosure ............................ ..................................17 requirements have been strengthened by To conclude, MIGA is making its best many corporate entities and external efforts to provide quality services in a inspection is expected of many public in- timely manner. During the last fiscal year, stitutions including national and interna- MIGA conducted a customer survey which tional agencies. Governance issues have revealed that MIGA's guarantee clients been a major concem both in public and have a high regard for our services, client private entities in certain industrialized orientation, cost efficiency, and results ori- countries. In this environment, the speed entation. of service delivery may be affected, but overall quality control of the product may I am pleased with the survey results, be enhanced. A good example lies in envi- but I know that there are many more ef- ronmental standards. As environmental forts to be made in order for MIGA to be- concerns increase, the standard has been come a truly excellent company. And for raised and the best practices will be ac- this purpose, we welcome your suggestions cepted as the new standard. This may ne- and guidance in the future. cessitate a fresh look at disclosure, inspec- tion, and intemal business processes. MIGA Finally, I should like to ask you one is about to introduce the business quality question to think over after this meeting. I management function into our Guarantee have explained the values of the Con- Department in order to look at all these verted. What do you think, then, are the aspects together. This is a new challenge values of Bureaucracy? In my mind, the for MIGA management, since it may scare major difference lies in that, while the off a certain number of potential clients. Converted focus primarily on clients' in- But we believe that we have to accept that terests, bureaucrats are ambivalent between the rules of the game have changed and seeking the interests of the public and those that the new rules will be fair to all the of their own organization. stakebolders. Thank you. So far, I have discussed the corpo- rate values of MIGA and explained how we will define the quality of MIGA ser- vices. I did not have time to mention MIGA's products in the technical assistance area, but the same concept of values ap- plies to them also. As you know, MIGA has many innovative products such as IPAnet, MIS, CD-ROM in mining and tourism sec- tors, and other IPA capacity building ser- vices such as training and workshops. I would like to yield my explanation to that given in MIGA's Annual Report from pages 42-50. ; .. .. - - - . . .. ~Pqm.-d 001 Ak.OH 'vPt ViW * * * * * * * * . . * * * * * * * * * * * . * * * * * * * * * . * * * * * * * * * . oz. J0Apu Spj JOJ ci01p JO UrIInJ1SW 9 S 18UJfl JO Sfl pSS )A1T  U? SUOZ1UEf0 1UApI tj Aq ut{s uowuuoju ioj dit su1id IoJ ujzu  qM  uo paprusuo (V.IUISAU1 pu pai uo) jm u!ddo{s UOIWUJJOJU! Us1tJNqM auvdL  p AjpuJti  innng u Id61A ujsiyoiP 5ps z!u2o5j sdoi. s d6s.-uou1 cjoc pnp -up iou s pu spu2 io sJs1uIu.I vxpuckpuj Aq pjt s uouuou str 'suot uxu2TJoJ 'xoqJ urnuO3iAu tp ttiumuo3 suopaI. uo p  1 tIUTJ JO tU0U00flLUJ ptW  ouocoitu su0isop JIUJ -WAU1  sJoJ piai uopuuoJw ppdn 2uwiqo u AtI sssu -!Sfld1WAPd p n ptJs spp ioj u6sitjj, x63os pdtp pue (sD -u JU0WIJVX pu SIU UJA0 WU0!WU3 .ios jqnd tp uMq pt{s UOTWUIIOJrn JOJ diqstnxd JOJ PTW' I  su{i 'I 966 i tcIjA u uoji -doo pU  JOJ I JOflUVJJ p(UJUU 4IO1AG pu UO3TIJSU0J)J JoJ uj udoJna p Aq paosuods sw up  pu pa iodx Jo ui tf w pJATpp s tjcds sIqi 9661 P"'FV SIOI93S ILVAIIIJ UNIV IW1ftf1d ml aiag 9NII1VHS MOiIVTNHOINI,, NOFDThISNOGNJOrI INFORMATION SHARING ON EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES Statement by Mr. Akira Iida Executive Vice President MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT GUARANTEE AGENCY at the International Meeting "Developing Export Finance & Insurance in NIS/CEE" LONDON March 11-12, 1996 INTRONUiTION between (a) building an auto-assembly fac- - RODUCTION --.. itory in one of the countries in the region and (b) exporting the finished cars from I should like to propose taking a fresh look the factory already in existence in Western at the issue of information sharing in the Europe. The following questions come to marketplace with respect to emerging mar- mind immediately: ket economies in the NIS and Central and Eastern Europe. (1) What is the absorptive capacity of the emerging market in the region? In order to develop institutions in (2) What are the trade barriers between the region which will deal with export fi- countries within and across the re- nance and/or insurance, it is critical that gion? business information flows appropriately (3) What is the total cost involved in across borders. Whether the transaction is such a new investment plan (Option trade (export-irnport) or direct investment, A) and what is the comparative ad- "finance and insurance" come after the vantage of such new investment over "business decision" by private sector enti- continuing trade (Option B) in the ties undertaking such transactions. longer run? In order for a business to reach im- In order to answer these questions, you portant decisions, it is necessary for it to have to know the essential features of regu- examine the economic, financial and tech- lations with respect to: nical feasibility of such transactions, includ- * trade and investment ing various risk analyses which cannot be * local commerce, especially the dis- done without the appropriate provision for tribution system quality information about those factors. * environment *infrastructure (power, water, roads, Try to imagine the case of a Euro- sea/airports) and future expansion pean carmaker considering the options plans, etc. . .. * * & * . . . a.g...... * . see.....,.................. see .................. 21 In addition to this, market-related informa- Such information sharing is vital also for tion should be available with respect to: any export finance and insurance institu- * the size of the existing car market tions which you may wish to create in the * the demographic composition of the future, since they may not be in demand if people transactions are poor. * availability of skilled labor * labor costs * welfare costs which the private sec- tor should share with the local or fed- X eral authorities, etc. Let us consider for a moment how Most of the information critical for deci- private business obtains such sion making in any private business trans- information. action (trade and/or investment) is already in the hands of governments or interna- Firms often employ specialized consultants, tional organizations (EBRD, IMF, World in addition to their staff, to gather the nec- Bank Group, etc.). Governments design the essary information, piece by piece. Some- regulations affecting the whole range of times they send a fact-finding mission to private-sector activities. Governments also make a comprehensive feasibility study, conduct the long-term planning for infra- which costs a lot of time and money. When structure, labor force, environmental re- a survey is made, they have to go to the quirements, etc. Governments also under- executive board asking for an important take periodic statistical surveys of those decision, but, alas, the information is often factors affecting national economies, such outdated. In an emerging market, things as expenditure, income allocation, produc- change so rapidly that two- to three-year- tion, labor force, etc. old figures are not reliable. Governments are in charge of gen- It is true that the regulatory frame- eral education and offer training opportu- work should be friendly to investors and/ nities for certain specialized skills mix. or traders. But a market-friendly regulatory Governments, therefore, are the largest re- framework is not sufficient to induce trade tainers of information relevant to private or investments; it is a necessary condition, business. Yet this information held within but not sufficient by itself. govemment is so fragmented and not sys- tematically assembled. As a result private Likewise, establishment of export fi- business is confronted with a huge infor- nance and insurance institutions in the re- mation barrier. In order to get the whole gion is not a sufficient condition, although picture of a country's investment climate, it is an important one to catalyze transac- a consultant team often has to spend weeks tions, especially in case they are blocked wandering from one ministry to another. by risk concerns. Then this is repeated by another consult- ant team for other investors. Millions of What tends to be overlooked here, dollars are wasted these days in such over- however, is the importance of information lapping exercises because of deficiencies in sharing, vis-a-vis private-sector businesses. the ability of governments to promote or Such a partnership is necessary for transac- market their business opportunities effec- tions to rise and for the region to prosper. tively. 22 . oo.o... o.............................. International financial organizations are, likewise, required by their mandates IPAnet FAC.CTIES to systematically collect and analyze infor- 1. The Age of Internet mation on these matters. They conduct periodic country surveys of the general As you know, today's Internet (satellite- economic and financial condition of their supported international network of net- member countries and other surveys on works) is considered not only an informa- specific areas in connection with their busi- . h ness operations (short- or long- term financ- marketplace. Various private businesses ing or investment, non-lending services prepare their own home page on Internet such as policy advisory services, etc.). How- in order to convey information needed ever, this information is hidden deeply in for their own public relations activities. their own databases to which private-sec- Through their Internet Home Page, they tor business is almost always denied access. try to inform the general public of such Here, also, we see the occasional and frag- things asf mented publication of some of their analy- ses and statistical data but, in these days of * who runs the business; rapidly changing market conditions, any in- a what are the company's products; formation is almost outdated by the time * how the distribution network is con- it is printed. Therefore, it is imperative, in structed; the present business environment, that pri- * what is the financial structure of the vate-sector businesses have access to more isiness accurate, timely information on whatever business; subject that interests them. . what is the corporate policy; ^ how environmentally sensitive they To this end, governments and inter- are, etc. national organizations can collaborate as Further, private business is utilizing partners. It doesn't cost much money; you the Internet for the specific purpose of re- don't need to create special organizations gional or sector-wide commercial network- to work on this, nothing. All that is needed ing or even for the electronic mail-order is the willingness to collaborate, plus a little business. National business associations, bit of common sense to make a sensible trade associations and financial communi- judgment regarding whether the economic, ties are also frequent users of the Internet financial or business data or any other in- formation which you hold is really sensi- Against this background, some na- tive and confidential. What harm will it do to also loca governm nts so ho- if this information, data or analysis is made ing onto the Internet and starting to com- available to private business or NGOs? municate to their people about their What are the pros and cons and which is policies, services and so on. Some of the larger? When you reflect on these issues, multilateral development banks (MDBs) the next thing is how to supply this infor- ateral develont banks oMDBs matin t th busnes wold. illthi be are also becoming strong supporters of this mation to the business world. Will this be movement. The World Bank Group insti- difficult? Don't worry! MIGA proposes its IPAnet facilities as the vehicle of choice for tutions (IBRD, IDA, IFC, MIGA) have their such information dissemination! own home pages liked to each other. With a search function built in, the user has broad access to service information and . 0 * 0 * * * * a O * * * * * * * . * * * * * * * * * * * 0 * * * * * 23 databases. The World Bank Group Home IPAnet is, so to speak, an information Page, in due course, will be an instrument shopping mall to which MIGA invites na- not only for public relations, but also for tional IPAs to come and open an informa- disclosure (the principle of transparency) tion shop to promote their own investment and for a more sophisticated way to learn opportunities. Of course, in order for any about the development business. shopping mall to be successful, it has to accommodate as many visitors as possible. Indeed, the present age is the age of Therefore, IPAnet invites any business, pri- Internet. Without being a part of this in- vate or public; any business association; any formation exchange through Internet, you government, central or local; and any in- will be severely handicapped in your busi- ternational organization to come and open ness, whether public or private. an information shop and display any busi- ness-related information - whether on in- 2. The Concept of IPAnet vestment opportunities, on business con- ditions, for the purpose of disclosure, or for MIGA has the statutory mandate for dis- public relations or commercial advertising. seminating information on investment op- portunities. MIGA's core function is the IPAnet also embraces a lot of data- investment risk insurance business, which bases which are already available in the will catalyze foreign direct investments that marketplace (namely on the Internet). El- would otherwise be discouraged by the ements of the World Bank Group's data- political risks confronting investors. How- base are already available on IPAnet, and ever, dissemination of information on more will be added. In the meantime, reg- investment opportunities is also an impor- istrants in some 50 countries are already tant factor inducing investment decision using the IPAnet, and the supply of infor- making. As we face the age of Internet, mation regarding regulatory and macro- MIGA's Investment Marketing Services economic conditions and sector-based busi- Department has developed a new Internet ness information is improving day by day. facility called IPAnet. "IPA' is the acronym for investment promotion agencies of I call Internet "a marketplace" and member countries. An IPA can be a part of IPAnet "a shopping mall". What is the dif- a ministry or an independent agency, but ference, then, between "a marketplace" and IPAs are the bodies which market invest- "a shopping mall"? Take, for example, the ment opportunities in their own country. city merchants and shopping malls in the (In most developing economies, ministries suburbs. If you have ever visited Washing- play a role in promoting business oppor- ton, D.C., or New York, you will notice that tunities, especially in mining, petroleum, there are many famous shops in the center small industry and tourism. For overall pro- city. They are independent of each other motion of investment in agriculture, for- and sell different types of goods, but the estry, fisheries, manufacturing and service shoppers have to go around many blocks sectors, many countries have an indepen- to purchase what they want. On the other dent agency or a unit linked to the Prime hand, a shopping mall in the suburbs pro- Minister's Office, the Ministry of Finance vides a lot of functionality for shoppers or the Department of Industry or Com- because, from specialized shops such as merce. So the notion of an IPA is a very gen- cameras, shoes, beauty parlors and restau- eral one and does not necessarily mean that rants to large-scale department stores, they these agencies have the same name.) are equally tenants of these shopping malls. 24 ..........................................*e*o****** Therefore, you can find many goods of dif- signed specifically to suit these purposes ferent quality in one place. and offer the utmost functionality, such as wandering from one shop to another Internet is a marketplace where mil- just by one click of the mouse. It is also lions of businesses exchange information. equipped with today's hot business news However, it needs a special device to as- conveyed by international news agencies semble necessary information and custom- or local or national business news. It is also ize it for your own use. IPAnet is an Internet equipped with a private club function facility which was designed specifically for which will provide you with an opportu- that purpose. In other words, MIGA's nity to conduct a closed membership in- IPAnet may be the first global business in- formation exchange with your business formation shopping mall ever conceived. partners. You can even send E-mail just by clicking the mouse to any person who has Governments participating in this also subscribed to, or provided information meeting are invited to edit their own for, IPAnet. Internet home pages, including governmen- tal organization structure, administrative IPAnet is managed in a way which service guides, regulatory information, assures that quality information is available macroeconomic indicators, economic and from the source to all those entering the financial statistics, information on labor, in- shopping mall. Students and other Internet- frastructure, etc., and then hook up on surfers who lack a business purpose will IPAnet. You can do it quite easily if your be kept away. ministries collaborate to this end. Once the country's home page is on the air, IPAnet IPAnet has been in a start-up, con- will automatically reclassify the data by struction and test phase since November their nature. In case a viewer wants to find of last year and will continue to stay in that particular information on particular coun- mode until the end of June. During the test- try, by simply typing in key words such as run period, the use of IPAnet is free of "hotel" and "Russia," for example, all the charge, and MIGA is seeking feedback from data including those words will appear on users while it adds subscribers' databases the screen one-by-one until the viewer is and completes the functionalities of the satisfied. This information on data provided system. (If your country has "Internet Ac- by governments will easily be comple- cess," you can easily register yourself on mented by a more comprehensive find - IPAnet by typing in its Internet address: well analyzed databases provided by inter- http://vwww.ipanet.net). national organizations. Starting July 1st of this year, MIGA These days, both governments and will charge those entities which want to international organizations are asked to open an information shop in the Members' respect the principles of transparency and Billboard $2,000 for 18 months ending De- external accountability. In this context, cember 1997. For the shopper coming into many governments and international orga- the mall, MIGA will charge $300 for the nizations are prepared to utilize Internet same 18-month period. as an instrument of both disclosure and ac- countability, and further, they are willing CThe reason MIGA charges a fee is just to to utilize it as a public relations instrument. recover the cost invested and to be prepared IPAnet is an Internet facility which is de- to remain on the front line of information- ................................. ............................................. 25 sharing systems with many technological You may rightly ask what has been improvements in the future. The pricing done by MIGA specifically to this end. To policy will be reviewed when the first 18- answer this question, Mr. Luis Dodero, month period ends. Depending on the MIGA's Vice President and General Coun- number of users, and the comparative sel, asked me to add the following sentence advantage vis-a-vis then-existing similar to my statement: instruments, the fee may be reduced or increased.) "Under its Guarantee program, MIGA provides coverage against political risks such as war, expropriation and inconvert- ibility to private investors." Export credit insurance offers similar coverage to export- I have spent enough time already address- ers, while covering commercial risks as well ing the issues of partnership in informa- when the importer is a private company. tion sharing, which is a vital precondition As a consequence, MIGA has a staff highly for transactions in trade and investment, specialized in the analysis and prevention whether within or across the region. This of political risk. Although no claims have is also a precondition for the development been filed yet by investors insured by of export-finance and insurance institu- MIGA, a number of the Agency's staff have tions in the region. had previous extensive experience in claims management and salvage. 26 a * .. f* .. *.* * .... 0 @. @@ The Agency's Legal Department, in compliance with the mandate of the inter- national convention which created MIGA, is involved in mediating a number of dis- putes between investors and host countries. It is also active in advising countries on how to negotiate bilateral investment treaties. As the specialized member of the World Bank Group focused on these areas, MIGA has advised the World Bank on es- tablishing facilities to provide credit insur- ance against political risks for exports to Moldova and Ukraine. Within its budget- ary and personnel limitations, MIGA is also willing to provide advice on export credit insurance to countries that are members of the Agency, such as those represented here. We believe that a good export credit scheme is an element to attract foreign in- vestment and the encouragement of for- eign investment to our member countries is MIGA's "raison d'etre." CONCLUSION For more information on IPAnet, I am prepared to make a live demonstration of IPAnet's facilities during your stay in London. "Seeing is believing!" Thank you for your kind attention. *..e.... *6*@ee a* .......... . .. ................. . .... 27 VIENNA SPEECH: MIGA ANJI) UNIDO October1994 This is the speech which was delivered to the meeting of representatives of Invest- ment Promotion Services Offices of UNIDO, held at UNIDO headquarters in Vienna on October 10. 1994. In this speechi tried to elaborate on e eaof collaboration between MIGA and UNIDO's IPSOs. This speech also describes how UNIDO and MIGA started to collaborate at the Dubai Conference on Promotion of Investments to the Middle East held in November 1993. The suggestions con- tinue to remain valid, and collaboration between the two institutions is being en- hanced in this light. 4Mr. Maruno, Managing Director MUNIOO for investment promotion, visited MIGA in January 1997 and confinned this.) MIGA AND UNIDO Remarks by Mr. Akira Iida Executive Vice President MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT GUARANTEE AGENCY at the 11th Indust-Hal Investment Promotion Meeting UNIDO, VIENNA October 10, 1994 Mr. de Maria y Campos, Mr. Venkataraman, In the case of MIGA's technical as- Ladies and gentlemen: I would like to thank sistance services, however, greater expla- UNIDO for the invitation to address this nation is needed in order to clearly com- gathering of its officials in charge of Invest- municate the complementarity between ment Promotion Services. our respective orientations and services. Unlike the case of UNIDO, where First, however, let me briefly touch your IPS network is only one of a number on some issues related to the environment of functions that your agency performs, in which we operate as international orga- MIGA is an international organization with nizations. Each international organization a single purpose - the promotion of for- has its own historical origins and statutory eign direct investment (FDI). We address mandate. Nevertheless, we all face the ne- this mandate both through our guarantees cessity of adapting to changes in the social, services and through our technical assis- economic, and technological environments tance services. I am accompanied here to- in which we operate. In particular, we all day by Mr. Philip Karp, Program Manager must be mindful of the changing needs for Investment Promotion Agency Services of our clients and should be prepared to in our Investment Marketing Services respond flexibly to the changing demands (IMS) department. of our shareholders (i.e., member govern- ments). UNIDO's IPS has been in the busi- ness of investment promotion for many Our clients are legitimately con- years. MIGA, on the other hand, has only cerned with the quality of our products and been in existence for five years. We should services, and our shareholders are con- seek, therefore, to develop services that cerned both with results achieved and with complement those of UNIDO. cost-efficiency of operations. Financial in- tegrity is a matter of common concern to Looking first at our guarantee func- both clients and shareholders. tion, the complementarity between MIGA and UNIDO services is clear-cut in the These days in particular, our share- sense that we can offer political risk cover- holders are becoming increasingly con- age to projects promoted by UNIDO's cerned about the duplication of activities IPSOs. and services of international organizations. . . . . . * * * * . . . . ......... ... * * * * ... * * * * * * * * * . * *. 29 As a result, they are asking us to become extent to which our views and objectives more selective in our choice of projects and differ and the extent to which they are to collaborate with other agencies to avoid similar. duplication of effort. Unfortunately, I do not have suffi- For your information, Mr. Chairman, cient time allotted to me this morning to the World Bank Group is committed to fully address these questions. Therefore, I work on the basis of the following prin- would like to leave with you some written ciples: (1) selectivity; (2) partnership; (3) information that describes MIGA's tech- client orientation; (4) results orientation; nical assistance orientation and services. (5) cost effectiveness; and (6) financial in- tegrity. In this context, I listened with con- However, please allow me to dwell siderable interest to the opening remarks for a few minutes on the new orientation by Mr. de Maria y Campos. It appears that of these activities. UNIDO is addressing similar principles in the definition and execution of your own As I suggested to IPS officials in programs. Washington earlier this year, MIGA has recently completed a realignment of its With the above-listed guidelines in technical assistance function. Article 23 of mind, MIGA joined with UNIDO and the the MIGA Convention differentiates be- Inter-Arab Investment Guarantee Agency tween investment promotion and policy in organizing an international investment advisory services aimed at improving the promotion workshop in Dubai last Novem- climate for FDI in member developing ber. On that occasion, I had the opportu- countries. We believe that the latter func- nity to meet with Mr. Jean-Marc Deroy, tion can be best addressed, for the time then Director of UNIDO's Investment Pro- being, by the World Bank and IFC. motion Services. Since that meeting, I be- lieve that smoother communication has As a result, MIGA has decided to been established between the management focus its technical assistance exclusively on of our respective organizations. investment promotion and, accordingly, has withdrawn from the World Bank Group In March of this year, MIGA had the facility known as Foreign Investment Ad- honor of hosting part of the meeting of visory Services (FIAS). In keeping with this your IPSOs in Washington. Mr. Zampetti change in orientation, our technical assis- and other IPS officials were in attendance. tance department, formerly known as Subsequently, in July of this year, we had Policy and Advisory Services (PAS), has the pleasure of receiving Mr. Venkataraman been renamed Investment Marketing Ser- in Washington, and finally, it is my honor vices (IMS). This change officially took to be here in Vienna today. place on July 1, 1994. However, it had been approved by the MIGA Board of Direc- Mr. Chairman, as I noted a few min- tors in February, so I was already able to utes ago, it is important that we clearly un- outline the change when we met in Wash- derstand each others' policy objectives, op- ington in March. erational strategies, future perspectives, and delivery mechanisms in order to enhance A central focus of our revamped collaboration. We also must understand the technical assistance program is the intro- 30 ....o o*..o..o.................................. o 9o o* 9 o duction of new management and market- The IPAnet will be an open-ended ing techniques designed to enhance the electronic network, but eligible members institutional capacity of IPAs and to im- will be limited to those parties that have prove dissemination of information on in- legitimate concems and expertise on FDI. vestment opportunities. By bringing to bear This restriction is needed to ensure qual- the skills, techniques, and communications ity and efficiency of information and to technologies of modern industrial market- avoid junk-mail type communications. ing, we aim to assist member countries in becoming more effective in attracting and Another of our electronic initiatives reaping the benefits of FDI. is the use of CD-ROM technology as a ve- hicle for dissemination of information In keeping with both our capacity- on investment opportunities. Working building and information-dissemination closely with corporate sponsors and indus- functions, MIGA has begun development try experts, we are developing prototype of a number of cutting-edge electronic tools CD-ROM presentations and databases for designed to enhance marketing of invest- the African Mining and South American ment opportunities. Foremost among these Tourism sectors. These tools allow for pre- tools is our IPA electronic network. Some sentation of a large volume of information of you may recall that MIGA presented to on investment conditions and opportuni- you in Washington in March the original ties in an interactive format. My staff can concept of this network, which is called provide additional information on these IPAnet. initiatives. IPAnet is an electronic network fo- In addition, we have a number of cused on information exchange on FDI- products to support information dissemi- related matters, which will be carried over nation and IPA capacity building, includ- the Internet, the so-called "information high- ing our MIS software and Executive De- way." A prototype of the IPAnet system was velopment training programs. Our MIS, for unveiled just last week in Madrid, on the your information, has a different focus than occasion of the World Bank Group's An- that of UNIDO's investment promotion nual Meeting. The IPAnet will contain di- software, and it is my view and that of rectories, bulletin boards, electronic con- UNIDO management that they are ferences, investor databases, a reference complements rather than substitutes for desk, and, most importantly, global elec- one another. tronic communication facilities. MIGA is also engaged in more pro- For about the next 12 months, it will active investment promotion activities. In be tested among founding members and order to offer these services to as many interested parties which promote and fa- countries as possible within limited re- cilitate FDI in developing countries, includ- sources, we seek whenever possible to sup- ing IPAs, industry associations, investment port initiatives that can be organized on a advisors, investment finance institutions, multi-country and/or uni-sectoral basis. We business media, govemments, and interna- have found that multi-country promotion tional organizations. Then in the second approaches can be highly cost-effective in year, the IPAnet will be opened to inves- attracting the attention of foreign investors. tors at large. To date, IMS has successfully applied this ........................................ ................................................. 31 approach in two sectors - mining and ing our Global IPA Network Conference tourism. Again, I regret that I have to leave in Madrid last week is the increasing in- the details of these programs to our bro- volvement of SMEs in FDI activity. We chures. were fortunate enough to have Mr. Sergio Zampetti join us as a panelist in a session Before closing, let me turn to a dis- focusing on this subject. cussion of possible areas for collaboration between our two institutions. As I noted We recognize that UNIDO has con- earlier, MIGA's guarantee services can as- siderably more experience than we do at sist in realization of projects that UNIDO's MIGA in working with SMEs. I would like IPSOs promote. In addition, there is con- to propose that we work together to de- siderable scope for partnership between velop both guarantee products and infor- IMS and IPS. mation-dissemination initiatives geared to the special needs of what is likely to con- MIGA operates its IMS programs on tinue to be an increasingly important group a 100 percent cost-recovery basis. We be- of investors. lieve that this is the best way to be both cost-effective and quality-conscious. The Second, I would like to propose that relationship to cost-efficiency is self-ex- we join forces in the development and/or planatory. As for quality consciousness, execution of programs geared toward up- we believe that nobody will pay for a low- grading the capacity and skills of local firms quality product; hence the policy of cost- in order to enable them to better under- recovery ensures quality. stand the needs and requirements of for- eign partners. We expect direct beneficiaries of our products and services to be the principal The third area for potential collabo- contributors. However, in cases of countries ration is in development of programs to that cannot afford to pay for our services, promote South-South investment. We we look for sponsorship from business as- have identified, for example, a need for sociations, potential investors, bilateral do- training/orientation programs for investors nors, or international organizations. from the East Asian newly industrialized economies (NIEs) on business and cul- UNIDO, for example, has sponsored tural practices in other parts of the world. a number of our programs. Let me submit We would welcome UNIDO 's input in the to you a memo on MIGA's recent achieve- design and delivery of these programs. ments and future perspectives in Sub- Saharan Africa. This is a copy of a speech I Fourth and finally, I would like to delivered to African delegates in Madrid. invite UNIDO to join with us in develop- If any of these programs are of interest to ment of the IPAnet, perhaps through con- UNIDO, IMS would be delighted to dis- nection of your IPS offices and/or provision cuss them with your staff. of your databases on project opportunities, project sponsors, and investors. Let me now suggest four specific ar- eas for possible collaboration. First is co- I hope that we will have an opportu- operation in the promotion of FDI by small nity to discuss modalities for these and and medium enterprises (SMEs). One of other areas of possible collaboration in more the trends in FDI activity highlighted dur- detail later in today's program. Until then, 32 ......................................... let me close by once again thanking Messrs. de Maria y Campos and Venkataraman for the invitation to join you here in Vienna and by expressing my hopes for a deepen- ing of collaboration between MIGA and UNIDO. Thank you very much for your attention. s. ................................. ...... . sees..................... 000 00 0 *. . 33 JJ (b (  * (*,-- ,  - 0>. 0.  [1 * - * 0 . * c 0 *  (b Crb  _ *  * -c  * C) Q -; rTQ * (fZ   ?- S  -  *  * S -*  * 0 * I S CAPITAL INCREASE SHIFT Speech by Mr. Akira Iida Executive Vice President MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT GUARANTEE AGENCY MIGA LUNCHEON October 10, 1995 Ladies and gentlemen: It is a pleasure and at the World Bank Group and IMF Annual honor for me to share this pleasant lunch Meetings: "There is also MIGA - founded with you and to be able to give you feed- in 1988 - whose goal is to stimulate pri- back on our activities during the past vate investment by insuring against non- fiscal year and a brief perspective of the commercial risk. In six short years of op- future. eration, MIGA has already leveraged total investments of close to $9 billion in 36 countries. The only constraint on its CAPITAL INCREASE doing more is its very conservative capital and gearing ratio-which I would hope to SHIFT take up with our shareholders at somefuture point." Today, we are honored by the presence of the following guests: Members of the Yes, MIGAs management is consid- Bretton Woods Committee; Heads of na- ering a capital increase in three years' time, tional and regional insurance programs; because we are running out of guarantee Heads of Investment Promotion Agencies; authority in due course. Senior Managers of the IBRD and IFC; prominent lawyers having expertise on in- vestment-related issues; commercial bank- DEMAND FOR POLrTnCAL ers; representatives of private insurers and brokerage firms; senior managers of big trad- RISK INSURANCE ing firms, etc. Executive Directors and MIGA's managers are hosting those guests You may then ask if there is sufficient de- at each table. mand. Yes, there is. The number of private investors who filed preliminary applica- Looking at the list of guests and com- tions for MIGA's guarantees has exceeded paring it with those of past MIGA lun- two thousand (Profile page lO,Annexes page cheons which focused on members from 109). Preliminary applications are filed in national programs and national IPAs, some- order to check eligibility for MIGA's guar- body asked me, "Is MIGA taking a capital antee, and when investors indicate to increase shift?" Yes, it is. MIGA that they are definitely going ahead with the project, they file a definitive ap- You may recall that Mr. Wolfensohn plication. Out of 2,000 plus preliminary said this morning in his opening remarks applications, MIGA has so far underwrit- .......................................... * ........................... 35 ten 166 contracts. The rest of the applica- We know from history that when tions either have been accommodated by commercial banks establish overseas sub- national programs or are still in process in sidiaries and branches, their customers in MIGA, or did not materialize at all as real other sectors follow them and start to in- projects. But the rate of increase in MIGA's vest in those countries where their bank- contracts and cumulative numbers of ap- ers develop banking network services for plications is phenomenal. This is bad news their customers. for an idealist who wishes that political risks would subside in the peaceful and As such patterns of investment are harmonious process of the construction of repeated, we can reasonably expect that the new world security order. But this is the share of financial sector investment in good news for a realist who accepts the state MIGA's portfolio will decrease over time of the world security order just as it is, be- and the sector profile of MIGAs portfolio cause MIGA is serving its purposes. will become more balanced. The next question you may ask will be: How about the investor profile by nation- "Who are your clients?" Please look at page 4 ality? Please look at the Profile, page 7 (An- of the Profile (page 104 in Annexes). Our nexes, page 107). The answer is the USA, client base b sector is composed of: 47%; Canada, 5% (North America 52%); Europe, 42%; Japan, 5%'; and other, 1%. Financial sector 39% Mining 21% 'Let me say just a word about Japan and other investor Manufacturing 20% countries. Japan is also one of the largest investor coun- tries. But there are dlifferences of language and business Infrastructure 10% culture which are not in favor of development of this A^vgribusiness 4% complementarity relationship. In addition, investment de- cisions by Japanese firms are usually taken in Tokyo, which Oil and gas 3% makes it natural to go to EID-MITI (Export-Import In- Tourism 2% ~~~~~~~~~surance Departmnent of Ministry of International Trade and ITourism 2% Industry). Recently, one investor came to MIGA. In this Services 1% case, the investment was to be made by the Japanese sub- sidiary in Singapore into the Indonesia telecommunica- tions sector and they wanted MIGAs coverage. But fi- MIGA is a young institution. Its sec- nally they derided to invest from Tokyo and they went to tor profile is rapidly changing. At present IED-MITI. However, this anecdote encourages me to think that the process of an investment decision may be starting (a) finance; (b) mining and (c) manufac- to change in Japan and that, in the future, more overseas turing are strong, but we are hopeful that Japanese subsidiaries may wish to come to MIGA. Let me say that, for FY96 projections, already the U.S. share is start- we will have further diversification in our ing to decline gradually and we hope that the rise ofSouth- South investment, etc. will gradually expand. Indeed, in portfolio. the case of investors from Category 11 countries who do not possess their own investment risk insurance programs, For exarnple, MIGA's formative years MIGA's program is the only one available to them. coincided with the liberalization of the fi- As the private sector develops in emerging econo- mies and as business activities go beyond national bor- nancial sector in a certain number of de- ders, there are good reasons for investors to come to MIGA veloping member countries, such as Argen- unless they are prepared to assume risks by themselves. tina, Peru, Brazil, Pakistan and other Overseas Chinese investors who used to be es- emerging economies in Eastern Europe, sentially self-insurers may have to change their own busi- emerging economies in Easterri Europe, ness culture in order to adapt to changes in political risk Central Asia, etc. profiles in the process of their participation in the process of industrialization. 36 ................................... The large percentage of U.S. investors is COMPLEMENTAXRITY_ explained as follows: WI NATONAL (1) The U.S. is one of the largest inves- tor countries. (2) U.S. business culture favors risk man- agement. In this context, let me make it clear that (3) Complementarity between the U.S. MIGA was created not to compete with na- OPIC and MIGA is at work. Let me tional programs but to complement them. further explain this point. (MIGA Convention Article 19). I ex- (a) The U.S. Government has its plained so far how complementarity works own political message to send to between the U.S. OPIC and MIGA. But other governments for various what I should like to tell you today is that reasons. From time to time, the we want to further expand this complemen- Govemment takes a hard pos- tarity relationship with other national pro- ture towards other countries grams. We already have good relations with such as China, Peru, Pakistan, etc. the Canadian EDC, the British ECGD, the The U.S. OPIC runs the national French COFACE, the Japanese EID-MITI, program, which has to stay con- etc. But we can do more in the future. sistent with the government's position. In this event, does an American corporation always D respect the government's posi- tion? The private sector may MG have its own agenda. The Gov- ernment knows it and so does The next question you may ask will be OPIC. In addition, as far as the "Which region is benefiting from MIGA's government's position is clari- Guarantee Services as the destination of fied, they don't mind sometimes FDI which MIGA promotes?" Please look if American firms come to at pages 5, 6 and 9 of the Profile (pages MIGA. 105, 106 and 109 in Annexes.) (b) The U.S. OPIC has its own risk management policy and wants to About 45% of MIGA's exposure ex- adjust its portfolio in terms of ists in the Latin America and Caribbean country exposure, sector expo- region. Asia represents 26%; Europe and sure, etc. Then, MIGA's presence Central Asia, 22%; and Africa and the is convenient for them as a joint Middle East, 7%. This is the regional dis- risk taker. MIGA can step in as a tribution of MIGA's portfolio in the coinsurer or reinsurer and, as a amount of maximum contingent liabilities. result, the desired investment takes place. That is what matters If it is looked at by the number of con- to developing nations. tracts, Africa and the Middle East are do- (c) OPIC has its own eligibility ing better. They represent 10% instead of policy under which foreign- 7% and the percentage of other regions is owned U.S. corporations are not reduced. This means that the amount per eligible for OPIC coverage. project is smaller in this region than in the MIGA is there to complement others. If looked at on the basis of prelimi- the U.S. national program. nary applications, Africa and the Middle ......................0....................04 0 0 37 East represent 17%; Europe and Central which requires international bidding for America, 31%; and Asia, 29%. This suggests procurement of goods and services which that MIGA's portfolio is dynamically chang- may be earned by bidders residing in in- ing also with respect to regional distribution. dustrialized nations leaving huge amounts of debts in the host country. I am not de- nouncing commercial loans. I fully recog- nize the necessity of commercial loans to carry out certain priority projects in devel- Another question which I hear often is the oping economies, and they certainly carry following: "Isn't MIGA too small to accom- a big developmental impact. modate the needs of investors?" This ques- tion is related to MIGA's project limit of However, I am talking about the dif- $50 million and country limit of $175 mil- ference between commercial loans 2 and lion. This question is often raised by com- equity investments in terms of the degree mercial bankers who are dealing with a loan of developmental impact. project of a billion-dollar size. Of course, with the larger limit, MICA will have less constraints. That's why we are going to make G the case for a capital increase. However, even under the present constraints, MICA can do a meaningful job. Small can be beautiful. As far as equity-related investments are First, let me point out that MIGA concerned, right sizing is in everyone's in- was not created to cover loan risks, but to terest. cover mainly equity-related risks. (1) Investors themselves want it right sized, because they know it takes a EQUITY-i EL AT$D ~~~~long time for the equity investment to become profitable. (2) It should be right sized as conducive to the business scale and absorptive IMPACT ~~~~~~~~~capacity of the local economy. 2 Political risks involved in commercial loans can be taken Equity-related investment has definitely a care of by national programs which are established mainly larger developmental impact when com- to take care of each respective national interest. pared to a commercial loan because the Within the World Bank, loan guarantee can be multiplier effect is larger. taken care of by IBRD. But the role of the IBRD guaran- multiplier effect is larger. ~~tee baa been somewhat limited. So far, its guarantee pro- gram has focused on infrastructure-type projects and has Businesses established, or expanded, not offered political risk coverage to other types of loan Busineses etablihed, r expnded, investments, which makes sense to me fromn a develop- through equity-related investments mean mental impact point of view. a long-lasting multiplier effect on local Infrastructure building was neglected during the economies through payment of annual sala- decade of debt: namely the 19 0s. In order to pave the and procurement of goods ~development process in the next decade, infrastructure ries and procurement of goods and services building is absolutely needed. from the local economy. In this context, I should Eke to point out that also in MIGA, the demand for infrastructure is increasing. Op- This is particularly important as com- portunity-oriented private business increasingly finds busi- ness opportunities in the infrastructure sector, reflecting pared to a billion-dollar commercial loan the trend of the world economy. 38 . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. * . ... * * *... * * . * * * * (3) Right sizing is also in the interest of * MIGA's project must be a private host countries that are afraid of the sector project which is identified by dominating presence of foreign capi- private investors, their own feasibil- tal in one sector or another. ity study is conducted and the financ- (4) Political risk insurers want right siz- ing of the project is arranged by ing because they don't want to as- themselves. sume one large risk in one project. They want to share the risks with co- In other words, MIGA attends to insurers or reinsurers. clients who are not attended to by the IBRD, and MIGA participates in IBRD projects In addition, from MIGA's experience, when its role in equity coverage is needed. the US$50 million project limit did not In this sense, MIGA supplements the role pose a serious difficulty in accommodat- of IBRD as a principal financier of public ing clients' needs. When it did, it was rela- sector projects and, to a lesser extent, guar- tively easy to find national insurers who antor of commercial loans to infrastructure would share the risks with MIGA. projects. The same supplemental relation- ship can be explained between IFC and In conclusion, small can be beautiful MIGA, but I will not go into detail today. as far as equity-related investments are con- cerned. PRojECT LMI AND M-GA SUPPLEMENS OUNTRY LIMIT IBRD AND IuC As you may have understood already from my earlier explanations, MIGA will But there are clear differences between the stay for some more time with the present IBRD Guarantee and MIGA's insurance as project limit of US$50 million for two rea- follows: sons: * IBRD Guarantee projects can be (a) risk management public-sector projects or private-sec- (b) the lack of compelling reasons to in- tor projects. (In both cases commer- crease cial loans may be involved.) If it is a private sector project, it must be a On the other hand, MIGA is willing project of high national priority be- to increase a country limit as our total causethehostgovernmenthastopro- exposure increases. We have obtained vide a counter-guarantee to IBRD. 3 concurrence by the Board that this can go up to 15% of total exposure, but we In the case of MIGA insurance, a counter-guarantee is also have an understanding by the Board not required. that management can set the country The collateral requirement stems from banking limit lower than that from a prudent prudence. A counter-guarantee by the host government is viewpoint. required by the Bank's Articles of Agreement and is given on the basis of an indemnity agreement with the IBRD as a form of collateral to the guarantee. Currently, management is contain- Prudent management of the insurance business is ing the country exposure within 10% of based on the risk assessment reflected in the difference of t r ( A premium rates and the combination of p~ortfolio manage- totah exposure tpage 15 o tannual Report) . ment and reserves building. This is also justified from the viewpoint of .................................... *ee*e@**e S C S S C S....... 39 the equitable allocation of guarantee ser- Second, I am also pleased to inform vices by host countries. you that MIGA's speed of response and the response to changing needs have improved Nevertheless, there are three coun- significantly since early 1994. tries which are approaching the present country limit of US$175 million (Pakistan, As to Guarantees, a simplified Board Argentina and Peru). Management will in- procedure was introduced in February form the Board, in due course, of an in- 1994.AstoTechnicalAssistance activities, crease in the country limit from US$175 the shortage of both financial and human million to US$225 million (if the 15% rule resources forced MIGA to withdraw from is applied, the ceiling would be US$300 PolicyAdvisory Services, which was reborn million). as Investment Marketing Services, apply- ing strict criteria of selectivity and trying to avoid duplication of services not only with other international organizations but also with various private consulting firms. The last question to be asked is whethzer This compelled MIGA to be innovative in MIGA is liked by its customers. In other assessing clients' needs and in developing words, MIGA's client orientation and pro- new products. fessional excellence will have to be exam- ined. First, I am pleased to tell you that Third, MIGA's external relations significant improvements have been made function is primarily focused on client in- in terms of the user-friendliness of MIGA's terface. Both the Guarantees and Invest- products, both in Guarantees and in Tech- ment Marketing Services Departments nical Assistance activities. provide regular feedback to clients on their respective activities and conduct surveys With regard to Guarantee products, on the quality of MIGA's products. the "General Conditions" of Guarantee Contracts have been amended frequently to tailor our products to fit the client's PcBiE SLV G needs better, and the "Operational Regu- lations" have been amended to streamline our procedures. Last, MIGA's demonstrated prob- Concerning Technical Assistance ac- lem-solving capacity is adding additional tivities, Investment Promotion conferences value to MIGA's services. Recently, two cli- are specifically tailored to meet clients' ents of MIGA Guarantees faced problems needs and seek clear niches where MIGA, vis-a-vis two host governments. In one case, as an international organization, has evi- it was clear that the client did not meet dent advantage over private consulting the requirement set forth in the conces- firms. Multi-country, single-sector oriented sion agreement with the government. promotions are one such example. Therefore, it did not constitute a claim case for MIGA. But MIGA's lawyers helped to In addition, IPAnet services and resolve the disputes, and now a new set of CD-ROMs are being developed on the agreements has been worked out by the basis of the careful exchange of views two parties. In another case, it went as close with both private and public sector cus- as the claim filing by the client. (The cli- tomers. ent had two options: withdraw with pay- 40 ....................................... ment of loss or stay in the country with When MIGA requests a capital in- mutually agreeable conditions.) However, crease, this will show how unduly conser- the host government has responded to vative or pessimistic MIGA's founders were MIGA's General Counsel's requests through with such small capitalization. The final MIGA's Executive Director and through verdict will be given by its shareholders, the embassy located in Washington, D.C. but they will need testimony from MIGA's Finally the client agreed to stay and MIGA clients or other knowledgeable people avoided a case of claim. This is a typical about the rationale for such a capital in- case in which the quality of MIGA's risk crease. coverage was tested, and I am happy that MIGA has proved the quality of its prod- MIGA's professional excellence and ucts, MIGA's legal expertise in investment- client-orientation should be judged by its cli- related issues is also at work in Africa, in ents. MIGA's developmental impact and use- Latin America and in South Asia, trying fulness to the private sector investor should to de-limit national border in terms of be judged by both the host country and excavation of oil reserves in the conti- the client investor. nental shelf along the coast. Once agree- ments are reached, those investors inter- I hope my presentation today helps ested in such oil reserves are reasonably you in forming your opinion about MIGA. expected to come to MIGA's Guarantee in the future. CONCLUSION- : So far, I explained (1) what the develop- mental impact of MIGA's projects is and (2) how MIGA complements national pro- grams and supplements IBRD and IFC. I also explained about (3) MIGA's portfolio profile and its dynamism. I explained (4) how MIGA deals with its customers and (5) serves its customers with unique problem-solving capacity. ............................. .....................................4 41 02 _ 0 O0202 Q +.'02Q 0 _ 02 02 O02 U V U- - 02 0" 0 .- .-o 02  3 0  0 0    02v$v 02 - 02Q 02: 0.2 U -0o  02  _  ----o 02  BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE IBRD, MIGA AND EXPORT CREDIT AGENCIES 0 Remarks by Mr. Akira Iida Executive Vice President MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT GUARANTEE AGENCY ECA Export Credit Agencies Lunch September 12, 1995 Ladies and gentlemen: It is my pleasure and honor to have this opportunity to I. LOCATION OF spend this time with you and explain MIGA PROJECTS MIGA's viewpoint regarding business which we may share in the future. In order to facilitate our communication, I asked In the past six years, MIGA has signed 155 Mr. Banerji to distribute MIGA fact sheets contracts covering 36 countries. Let me first to illustrate MIGA's past achievements. invite you to look at the chart circulated '. This provides the regional distribution of MIGA was created in 1988 and is our portfolio by maximum contingent li- seven years old at present. Its member abilities. Latin America and the Caribbean countries have increased from 48 original occupy 45%; Asia, 26%; Europe and Cen- members to 128 members at present, of tral Asia, 20%;Africa and the Middle East, whom 109 are Category II countries, mean- 7%. However, looking at these figures we ing developing member countries and should take into account the differences economies in transition. MIGA promotes in the size of the economy. If you look at foreign direct investment to Category II the regional distribution by number of con- countries from Category I countries tracts in the circulated chart ', Africa and (namely 19 industrialized countries) and the Middle East occupy 10% instead of 7%; from other member countries. Its core Latin America and the Caribbean occupy business is noncommercial risk insurance 41% instead of 45%, and even within Asia which will catalyze foreign direct invest- the percentage of China will show a big ment, but MIGA is also rendering invest- difference because a unit project in China ment marketing services to Category II costs a lot less than the unit cost of projects countries that want to market their own in other Asian tigers. In addition, if you investment opportunities to potential in- consider the regional distribution by the vestors abroad. number of preliminary applications, you The chart circulated in the meeting is omitted here. ................................. ...a............................a.... 43 have quite a different story there. I think on the basis of this background the regional distribution of MIGA's portfolio is dynami- cally changing over time. Now let me turn to the contents of our portfolio. Here you have the list of projects which we have delivered in the past six Next, I would like to draw your attention years in the circulated paper 2. (MIGA's to the chart circulated2 which shows the first year cannot be counted as an opera- regional distribution of our client investors. tional year, because MIGA had only five You will be surprised to find that U.S. in- officers and was very busy recruiting hu- vestors occupy almost 50% of our client man resources.) base. First, this is based on the fact that the U.S. is one of the largest investor countries. Before going into this list of projects, Second, U.S. business culture favors pur- let us go back to the chart and explain the chasing political risk insurance policies and salient points. third, the U.S. national program is not avail- able for those foreign-owned U.S. corpo- (i) Sectoral Distribution'. rations. As an international organization, we (ii) Infrastructure (a rapidly-rising sec- should like to diversify our client base to tor) 3. expand to more clients in other regions and, as time passes, I am pretty sure that the MIGA is a demand- driven, oppor- U.S. share will diminish. MIGA did a re- tunities-oriented institution. The sectoral markable job over the past three years in distribution of the portfolio may be af- that it has delivered so many projects in so fected by a change in demand over time. many countries over such a short period We are, in principle, very flexible in this of time. It was beyond the expectation of respect, except that we will exercise, from MlGA's founders, who undercapitalized time to time, self-restraint from the port- MIGA and did not see a clear perspective folio risk management point of view. of how the world investment environment will favor the political risk insurance busi- ness. As you know, there is abundant capi- tal available in the private capital market and business opportunities are also abun- So far I have explained to you the loca- dant in the developing world, not the least tion, client base and sector profile of MIGA in the area of infrastructure. Nevertheless, projects. MIGA's projects are identified by we have political instability, for example, a private business. A feasibility study, arising after the fall of the Berlin Wall; we whether financial or technical, is conducted are confronted with so many regional con- by the private business. Financial arrange- flicts, diminishing governability in certain ments are made by the private business countries and diminished strength in the with a commercial bank or Ex-Im Bank or international framework. Therefore, the rise even with the Intemational Financial In- in the demand for political risk insurance. stitutions (IFIs). Only when they are con- cerned with the political risk insurance in- volved in a project do they come to us or 'The chart and papers circulated in the meeting are omit- ted here. 'Explanation omitted. 44 . . . .. 0 . 0 . . 0 0........... to the national insurance agency to pur- and, in some cases, for your credit insur- chase coverage on it. It is distinctly differ- ance business. Whenever it is appropriate, ent from the big national projects which we would welcome your referring your cli- our elder brother, the World Bank, is deal- ents to us and, wherever possible, we will ing with. be glad to work with you in the sense that you offer advice, credits and/or insurance For private business, what matters are and we offer equity-related risk coverage speed, quality and price. In this context, in the same projects you are working on MIGA has clearly met the market test and or, in some cases, work with some of you the Board has been very pleased to allow in coinsurance and/or reinsurance. (When our business capacity increase so far. We you are an insurer you will understand may be confronted, however, with the chal- immediately. It is good to diversify risk lenge of another demand for capacity in- rather than to assume one-shot business crease in three to four years, but I am con- risks in a big project.) I hope the time I vinced that this will be overcome as long spent with you has been useful to you and, as we continue to be a cost-efficient and if you are interested in further technical client-oriented institution. As you and I detail, we will be very pleased to respond know, we share a lot of clients among us. to your questions. From the list of projects which I presented, you know who MIGA's clients are. Nor- Thank you. mally, they are clients for your export credit ............................ .....................................45 "WORLD BANK GUARANTEE AND MIGA GUARANTEE' 1994 MICA Luncheon Speech CASA GRANDE, MADRID, SPAIN The speech was delivered immediately after the ord Bank Executive Board reached agreement on the mainstreaming of the World Bank guarantee. Therefore, there was a lot of confusion and concern among national risk insurers regarding the possible competition and conflict with their business. There was a clear need for me to explain what is meant by the mainstrearrng of the World Bank guarantee and how a World Bank guarantee differs from the MIGA guarantee or the risk guarantee business run by national agencies. In the concluding part, I suggested that both MIGA and national agencies would conduct our business on principles of client orientation, cost-efficiency and financial integrity and listen to what the customer says.Isaid that there was no good basis for being afraid of the entry of the World Bank in the guarantee business, and we shoulclbe prepared to provide the World Bank with any assistance needed for development purposes. Two years later, the new president of the World Bank, Mr. Wolfensohn, called for an action plan of the World Bank guarantee and looked into the possibility of a new facility which would respond to current private sector needs more efficiently. This quest is still underway, and what I suggested in this speech about the relation- ship between the World Bank, MIGA and national agencies has actually proved to be accurate. WORLD BANK GUARANTEE AND MIGA GUARANTEE Speech by Mr. Akira Iida Executive Vice President MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT GUARANTEE AGENCY at MIGA Luncheon held in Casa Grande, Madrid October 6, 1994 Ladies and gentlemen: At the two previ- port these operations, the U.S. National ous Annual Meeting luncheons, I spoke Program offered coverage against the po- only about MIGA's business, but this year litical risks of U.S. investments. ' As a mat- I should like to talk about theWorld Bank's ter of national investment risk insurance guarantee and MIGA's guarantee, so that schemes, the British system may have been you can clearly understand the differences created earlier than that, even before the between the two: Second World War, but it was not so active in terms of the underwriting volume. Over- I. This need arises from the fact that whelmingly, national agencies' insurance the World Bank's Executive Board recently programs were dominated by export credit reached a policy decision that the Bank will insurance and this feature still remains ap- be utilizing its guarantee function more fre- plicable today in many countries. Against quently, especially in relation to infrastruc- this background, when the World Bank and ture-type projects. Many people are con- IFC were created, no provision was made fused about the reason for this and wonder in the World Bank charter regarding the what the relationship will be between the guarantees function on equity investment Bank's and MIGA's guarantees. In order to even though the Bank was given the man- give you a clear-cut understanding, I should date to make loan guarantees to public and/ like to begin with an historical review. or private lenders. Even in the IFC's Ar- ticles of Agreement, in the original text, A. The World Bank was created in only portfolio investment was allowed and 1944 and IFC in 1956. At that time, it was IFC's participation in direct equity invest- still rare for a business to make an overseas ment was expressly prohibited. In 1961, investment or to do business in another IFC's Articles ofAgreement were amended country, except in a metropolitan colony or a former colony. The first wave of over- The U.S. National Program for long-term investment seas direct investment by private business credit and related risk insurance started with the Macshall after World War II started during the de- Plan in 1948 and was administered by various govern- cade of the 1 950s with the multinational- ment agencies including USAID until the function was in- tegrated into that of USOPIC, which was established as an ization of U.S. business. In order to sup- independent agency in 1969 andbegan operations in 1971 ...................... .......................a...................................* 0 a* * 47 so as to enable IFC to make equity invest- 2.Foreign direct investment, on the ments. As to the guarantee function of IFC, other hand, will not only replace na- there was no provision in the Articles of tional borrowing, but will also in- Agreement which prevented IFC from crease employment. Through salary offering risk coverage on equity investment payments and procurement of goods by public or private businesses, but IFC did and services within the domestic not use its guarantee function as a main- economy, that business can exercise stream instrument to promote equity in- a strong economic impact on the host vestments. All these pieces of information country. Thus, the aggregate amount provide the evidence of the fact that how of economic impact of the initial poor was the recognition of the need for equity investment is incalculable. In an insurance scheme as an instrument to addition, FDI will contribute to the catalyze the flow of equity investments. development of the private sector and economic growth in general, B. In early 1960s, the Intemational through the increase of players in the Chamber of Commerce urged the World marketplace, through the generation Bank to establish the so-called Interna- of tax revenue and foreign exchange tional Investment Insurance Agency (IIIA), earnings and through the introduc- and the Executive Directors of the World tion of new technology and know- Bank convened as a Committee of the how into the domestic economy. They Whole to discuss the pros and cons of are all vital factors for development. creating such an agency. The pros were as follows: (b) On the other hand, there were vari- ous arguments against such a proposal. The (a) In terms of developmental impact, reasons are as follows: foreign direct investment in the form of private business establishment had an In the early 1960s, when many met- economic impact far greater than a one- ropolitan colonies were becoming in- shot lending operation. Let me elaborate dependent, an actual expropriation on this: of foreign assets was taking place in many countries. Many develop- 1. In the early 1960s, foreign currency ing nations, particularly in Latin was scarce. Therefore, the roles of the America, considered that the cre- World Bank and IFC gave much im- ation of such an international invest- portance to the provision of foreign ment insurance agency would in- exchange needed for developmental fringe upon a nation's sovereignty. purposes. There was a strong reluc- Therefore, the Committee of the tance to local currency lending which Whole, which was convened several was needed for the implementation times during the 1960s and early of any project which had a certain 1970s, could not reach agreement. amount of local currency costs. The It was only in the aftermath of the majority of the Bank's Executive debt crises which started with Mexico Directors, at that time, considered in 1982 that developing nations re- that such local cost components alized how they had been overbor- should be financed through the rowing beyond their capacity to re- national savings of the borrowing pay, and how debt management had country. become difficult. 48 . . 9o.... o.................................... o *o o9 o o VWhen Mr. Clausen, the then-Presi- investment, branch establishments or dent of the World Bank, took the initiative shareholder loans for business expansion. in the early 1980s to reconvene the Com- In addition, in the case of MIGA's guaran- mittee of the Whole to discuss the matter tees, a host country counter-guarantee is again, finally there emerged an agreement not required. to create MIGA. The MIGA convention was opened for signature in 1985, and MIGA E. So far, I explained the reasons why came into being in April 1988. MIGA was established and its historical background. I also explained the functional C. I was wondering myself why differences between the Bank's and MIGA was not set up as a Vice Presidency MIGA's guarantees. I did this only for the of the Bank or attached to IFC. My answer purpose of explaining that there is no con- is this: flict between the World Bank's guarantee and MIGA's. Rather they can complement 1. By that time, the role of intemational each other. Let me elaborate further: organizations had become the subject of political debate and, in particular, l. Quite recently, the World Bank's Ex- in the U.S. Congress, it was likely that ecutive Directors approved a guar- any amendment proposed to the antee for a power project in China. World Bank's or IFC's Articles of The Bank decided to offer political Agreement might lead to a lot of ad- risk coverage to the commercial bank ditional requests for amendments by lending for that project. In such com- the U.S. Congress and other sources. mercial bank lending which has no relationship to equity holding by pri- 2. Considering this and other factors, vate investors, MIGA cannot offer its MIGA was created as an independent coverage. This is clearly the territory institution like IFC within the World of the World Bank. Bank Group. As you know, MIGA has the single purpose of foreign direct 2. This kind of capital import in the investment promotion but the estab- form of commercial bank lending is lishment of such a single-purpose in- needed to finance the priority project stitution was necessary to eliminate for the development of infrastructure the blindspot within the World Bank in China. When domestic savings are Group, namely the defacto lack of a scarce, there is a good rationale for guarantee function to catalyze equity- Bank guarantees to catalyze capital related investments needed for private import needed for such specific pur- business establishments. poses. In recent years, in many de- veloping countries, there has been a D. The Bank's clients are primarily strong rise in demand for infrastruc- government agencies. The World Bank can ture-type projects involving power, lend money to the private business with a transportation, communications and government guarantee, it can guarantee water distribution, etc., partly to private loans only when it receives a gov- make up for the lack of maintenance, ernment counter-guarantee. By contrast, during the process of recovery from the types of operations to which MIGA ex- debt crises throughout the past de- tends its guarantees are mostly private busi- cade, and partly to address the needs ness establishments in the form of equity of future economic growth. .0........................................ ....... a a a * a a a a a a a a a a a a 49 3.In the event that the Bank's guaran- resulting from political risks such as tee involves private investors' equity breach of contract by the govern- investments to establish a company ment or imposition of currency which will manage these infrastruc- transfer restrictions, etc. The govern- ture-type projects, MIGA's guaran- ment may accept or reject such a re- tee is needed. Therefore, there will quest. If it rejects this, lending may be good opportunities for the Bank not occur. If it accepts the request, it and MIGA to collaborate. has to be prepared for future claims. Political risks come into reality when F. The tendency described in para- there is a change of govemment from graph E(2) above was also observed in the one extreme position to another, or case of MIGA's guarantee applications: As as a result of macroeconomic mis- of July 31, 1994, MIGA received about 400 management, political unrest, etc. If preliminary applications for private invest- a government adopts a policy that ments in such infrastructure-type projects, they will pay, should there be a le- spread over more than 50 countries. Pri- gitimate claim, then they should vate sectors are increasingly expanding have a reserve for such future claims. their participation in such areas which, in previous decades, were predominantly 2. It is very unlikely that this will hap- public-sector businesses. pen, but let us assume, for the mo- ment, that the government borrows II. Now let me turn to another subject. some money from the World Bank Some of the delegates from national insur- (although the Bank would not lend ance agencies may still wonder what the for this purpose 2) and puts it into relationship will be between the Bank's reserves to be prepared for future guarantee and their own national agency's claims. This is extremely inefficient guarantee. economically. First, the government has to pay interest rates to the Bank A. They may say, "Okay, I understand on that money borrowed until such that there is no conflict between the Bank time an actual claim is filed, know- and MIGA. But my institution insures com- ing that this claim may not happen. mercial bank lending, whether it is related The World Bank has to borrow from to shareholding or not. I am not sure whether the capital market in order to lend or not the Bank's operation has a conflict to this government and also has to with ours. I am concerned that the Bank's pay interest on the borrowing and pricing policy may disturb the practice of to charge an appropriate fee on the our existing guarantee market." To these lending. concerns, I may answer this way. "Yes, there may be some overlapping of function on 3. In order to protect the commercial the surface, but national insurance agencies lender in this case, it would be much should not be concemed about the entrance more economical both for the Bank of the Bank into the guarantee business." Let and the government to agree upon a me elaborate on this point as follows: scheme whereby the Bank guaran- tees the commercial lender and con- 1. Suppose commercial lenders ask the cludes an indemnity agreement with borrowing country's government to give assurance to the lenders that the 2In case of an IDA project, such lending is actually planned government will pay if a loss occurs except that the money will be kept with IDA until needed. 5 0 . .. .................... the government. When a claim takes counter-guarantees. These days, the govern- place, the Bank will pay the commer- ment is becoming more and more con- cial lender and then the Bank will scious of debt management and contin- ask the government to repay the gency liability management. Therefore, the same amount to the Bank on the ba- government will be very selective about the sis of such an indemnity agreement. project upon which it will agree to offer a In the event that the govemment is counter-guarantee. It should be on the ba- unable to pay off the amount of the sis of the priority needs of that country. So, guarantee obligated to the Bank at even if commercial banks want to obtain once, the Bank will be a creditor of the Bank's guarantee, most of them may that amount vis-A-vis the govern- be turned down by recipient governments. ment. So this is what is implied by Only commercial lending which meets a the Bank's guarantee on commercial country's strategic priority needs will be lending and the counter-guarantee by honored. the host government. This is a much more economical way for both the C. Let me conclude with the issues Bank and the host government to re- of concern to MIGA and national agencies alize the same protection for com- as follows. The most important thing for mercial lending which is needed to us is that we conduct our business on the finance important development principles of client orientation, cost effi- projects. So I would say this is not ciency and financial integrity. If our cus- insurance business at all. This may tomers abandon us and rush to the Bank, be seen as a derivative of the Bank's we should not blame the Bank but our- lending operations. selves. However, because we are so client- oriented, cost-efficient and results-ori- 4. If you look at the question this way, ented, I do not think that we will lose our the Bank's guarantee and the ones clients. Let's continue our business with offered by MIGA and your national this common understanding and let us be agencies are totally different in na- prepared to help the World Bank if our ture. The former is an extension of assistance is needed for the pursuit of the loan operations, whereas the latter world's development purposes. is insurance which is not based at all on the counter-guarantee, but on pre- Thank you. miums paid by the clients. B. You may still voice your concern that clients will be rushing to the Bank if the premium is far below the market rate. However, please do not forget the fact that the host government has to provide ..................... * C....*............... C SOBSO a S *aS@*@@S@ C. 0 CC C S @ S C 51 MADRID SPEECH ON 'lAUNCHING OF PROTOTYPE - IPAnet" al WA NetworkW 1994 IME-Wo rid Bank Group Annual Meetings October1994 This speech was delivered in Madrid at one of the workshops organized during the 1994 World Bank Annual Meetings. This event was co-4onsored by the Ministiy of Commerce and Tourism of Spain. Participants at the workshops were leaders of national IPAs, private sector businesspeople and representatives of international agencws such as UNIDO   which later on came into the business of investment promotion through IPAs. In a sense, MIGA has triggered this fashion of UN agencies to start working with national IPAs. 1 am proud of this fact1 because MIGA clearly has set the standard for this to become anew trend in investment promotion business. At the meeting1 the prototype IPAnet facilities were demon- strated. In autumn 1993, MIGA had launched the concept of information ex- change on trade and mv stment throughthe Internet. Iri the autumn of 19941 after one year of consultations with the private sector business and technical front-run- ners of the lntemet business, MIGA developed a prototype of lPAnet and this is the reason why the workshop was convened and the speech delivered. 52 GLOBAL IPAnet WORKSHOP Welcome Speech by Mr. Akira Iida Executive Vice President MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT GUARANTEE AGENCY MADRID October 1, 1994 Good morning, ladies and gentlemen: I am work. The basic idea was to create a loose pleased to welcome you to MIGA's Glo- version of an association of national IPAs bal Investment Promotion Agency Net- in order to facilitate the "dissemination of work Workshop. information on investment opportunities," which is clearly mandated by Article 23 of Over the past two days, we have lis- the MIGA Convention. tened to, and discussed, presentations which were centered around the FDI strat- The "electronic network" was envi- egies of European companies. Specialists sioned to become the core instrument of from various service sectors - ranging from this IPA association for marketing their own telecommunications to financial services countries. However, considering MIGA's and tourism - have given us their views mandate, it was inappropriate to exclude on the developments going on in their busi- some member countries from our activi- nesses and how these developments may ties just because they are technologically affect investments in developing countries. not advanced enough to become members of the electronic network. Therefore, This third day of our meetings here MIGA said the IPA Network, which is the in Madrid will be of a different nature. We association of IPAs, will be an IPA forum to will change the focus of our attention and enhance the capacity of "marketing a coun- turn to a more intimate discussion of is- try" among member IPAs, and MIGA will sues directly related to the daily bread, I serve as the Secretariat for such a forum. mean the daily work of investment pro- motion agencies. MIGA already possessed, at that time, software which is the management The IPA Network Workshop today information system (MiS) software jointly will provide you with an open forum for developed by MIGA and IFC, and declared the exchange of views and opinions on that MIGA would further develop other modern investment promotion techniques. modalities for helping IPAs. 1. Some of you may ask what is the IPA One example is the African Mining Network? What does it mean? Well, let me Sector Conference held in June this year clarify this. One year ago, on the occasion in Denver, Colorado. Eighteen African of the last Annual Meetings of the World countries were invited there to meet with Bank Group, in Washington, D.C., MIGA major investors in the mining sector disclosed that it planned to create an IPA whether they are willing to join the elec- network with or without an electronic net- tronic network or not. MIGA acted as a .***.****.**....................................... *** ......................... 53 catalyzer for both our African member coun- After one year's serious market re- tries and mining companies to get together search and preparation, MIGA will launch and find future partners of their own. today a prototype system of the IPAnet, which is expected to become a core instru- On that occasion, MIGA introduced ment of a worldwide IPA association or IPA its prototype CD-ROM initiative as a pos- forum for marketing their own country. sible instrument for marketing in the Afri- can mining sector. This morning, you will This IPAnet will be an electronic net- observe a brief demonstration of this pro- work to which both national IPAs of de- totype product. Although we have not yet veloping countries and business associa- developed a CD-ROM for the tourism sec- tions or individual investors of investor tor, a similar sector-oriented conference was countries are invited. The IPAnet will serve held with great success in Fortaleza, Bra- both ways for sending out information and zil, in October last year. receiving information. So far, I was explaining that the IPA 3. This morning, we will demonstrate a pro- Network is a forum of national IPAs, in totype example of the system in order to general, with or without the electronic give you a clear image as to how it will network, and how it is functioning already. function. 2. Now let me comment on the IPAnet, The IPAnet will allow you access to the electronic network proposed by MIGA. the information available in the market- When MIGA introduced the concept, it place, but the last and most important ques- has incurred a strong interest among busi- tion for us before launching it officially is to ness associations residing in industrialized know how to design the "communication countries and semi-public agencies run by facilities" which should be utilized among private sector people but trusted with pub- IPAnet members for the very purpose of lic funds to promote overseas private in- "dissemination of information on invest- vestments. ment opportunities." They said unanimously that if such Today, in the workshop, we would an electronic network was created, it might like to learn from you what you think about save them costs for travel, need for repeated these initiatives. updating of basic data and, therefore, the cost of employing consultants for such We will listen to you carefully, both purposes. from national IPAs and from investors, re- garding the practical needs and suggestions. Fortunately, these days, the Internet is ready to serve as the so-called "Informa- In one year, we will accomplish our fi- tion Highway," through which we can send nal design and will make an official launch and receive information most efficiently of the IPAnet. Until that time, this IPAnet will and economically. be tested among founding members and in- terested parties in a pre-launch stage. If our work had started two years ear- lier, it may have been too early. But if we 4. Before I conclude, let me explain to you started our work two years later, it might an important change in our technical as- be too late. We are right on time to design sistance activities. Our technical assistance and launch such an electronic network. arm was formerly called Policy and Advi- 54 . .. S S S S S S . . . . . . ......... sory Services (PAS). But in July it was re- eign direct investment. In today's world named Investment Marketing Services economy with its global markets and in- (IMS). ternationally integrated production struc- tures, it is no longer sufficient to offer a As the name shows, MIGA has with- stable investment climate and interesting drawn from the policy advisory function investment opportunities for foreign inves- and decided to concentrate its technical tors. To successfully attract FDI, countries assistance effort in investment marketing must, more and more, be able to effectively services, which means that it will ever in- market themselves to investors. crease our tie with national IPAs. We have decided to withdraw from FIAS and let it Finally, I would like to invite you to become a joint venture of the IFC and the actively participate in the discussions tak- Bank, since we feel these lending institu- ing place today. As I mentioned, your feed- tions are better suited to perform policy back is important to us. We have to under- advisory functions. stand what your most urgent needs are in order to focus our activities on these needs. So, MIGA's technical assistance ser- And we have to understand what you ex- vices are provided mainly through its In- pect from us in order to use our limited vestment Marketing Services Department. resources to provide you with as many IMS is helping developing member coun- products as possible of a standard as high tries and transitional economies to meet the as possible. challenge of increased competition for for- * . 00. 00. 0. O. 0. *. *.................... ............................................ 55 "DENVER SPEECH ON AFRICAN MINING INVESTMENT CONFERENCE" First Mining Conference for Africa DENVER, COLORADO, USA June 1994 In June 1994, MIGA convened the first African mining investment conference in Denver, Golorado. Prior to this, MIGA had completely withdrawn from policy advisory services and remodeled its technical assistance activities in order to sharpen the difference with other agencies. Policy advisory services are best delivered by institutions like the World Bank and the IFC, that have competitive edge in this area. MIGA has also withdrawn from individual country promotion conference activities, because we believe that this can be left to private consultants. Neverthe- less, we believe that, given its nature as an international organization, MIGA has an important role to host multi-country promotion events for somewhat neglected sectors. Mining is not a declining industry worldwide, but in Africa, production and investment have lagged behind that of other regions. Mining development in the region has been constrained by insufficient exploration and investment. The conference provided an opportunity for African mining authorities to meet with representatives of major mining industries of the North American continent as well as those of Europe and Japan. While, in the main conference room, explana- tions were presented by African authorities regarding recent policy changes or changes in regulatory frameworks, ideas regarding exploratory projects or World Bank officials' explanation on macroeconomic or restructuring, IFC presentations on financing and risk-mitigation measures, there were special booths for each Afri- can participant to exhibit mineral samples and discuss business with potential in- vestors. MIGA designed the conferences and managed the implementation of the whole process of building contacts with participants, conducting the proceedings of the conferences, organizing logistics and offering follow-up services. This initiative was very successful both in substance and in financing of events and its was continued annually after Denver, in Toronto, Montreal and this year it is coming back to Denver. As a follow-up to this conference, all information provided by participants was gathered and edited into an African Mining CD-ROM and also it provided a valuable database which is contained in IPAnet. Updating of those databases is done by African authorities regularly in IPAnet. After this speech, MIGA has clearly set a standard about sector-wide multi-country investment promotion conference planning, execution, and follow-up. This model was replicated in min- ing conferences in the southern republics of the Former Soviet Union and for tour- ism m Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and the Middle East. DENVER SPEECH ON AFRICAN MINING INVESTMENT CONFERENCE Remarks by Mr. Akira Iida Executive Vice President MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT GUARANTEE AGENCY African Mining Investment Conference DENVER, COLORADO June 7, 1994 Excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies Bank Mining Unit in the Industry and En- and gentlemen: Let me welcome all of you ergy Division entitled "Strategy for African to the beautiful city of Denver and to the Mining."This paper was issued in 1992 but African Mining Investment Conference. its findings are still valid. I note that a sum- mary update is less than a week old~ This is my first visit to Denver. When I told my son in Tokyo that I was going to Mr. John Strongmann, the author of Denver, Colorado, he didn't know the this technical report, is scheduled to ad- name. However, when I told him it was the dress issues raised in this report before this city of Buffalo Bill Cody, Bat Masterson and morning's coffee break. However, let me Calamity Jane, he immediately understood. refer to the salient points of the report in American films are everywhere. I'm sure order to put the timing of this conference you will enjoy your stay in this city, which into context. The document argues that, can claim to be the center of the American among other developmental benefits, min- mining industry. ing in the Sub-Saharan Africa region pro- vides about one-third of non-oil exports As Dr. Kwaku explained, this con- and one-fifth of the total exports for the ference was planned and prepared by region as a whole. MIGA's staff and came into being with the strong support and cooperation of govern- Despite this important contribution ments, IPA heads and corporate sponsors. made by the mining sector, growth in Afri- Therefore, it will be in order to pay tribute can mining production has lagged behind and express my heartfelt thanks to them. that of other regions. Mining development in the region has been constrained by in- This morning, I would like to address sufficient mineral exploration and invest- the issue not of mining investment per se, ment. but of mining investment promotion in Africa. The Strongmann report states fur- ther that mining is not a declining indus- To begin, let me mention an excel- try. Rather, demand projections indicate lent technical paper issued by the World that future consumption growth rates of ................................. ...a................................. 57 most major metals and minerals will con- We cannot expect a country to attract tinue to be positive and will equal or ex- enough investment without having a suit- ceed the growth rates of the past two de- able regulatory environment, which an- cades. In addition, it notes that mining other speaker is expected to address later. investments are being made successfully elsewhere in the world. Africa, however, There are some challenges ahead of us in has failed to mobilize the necessary risk terms of investment promotion. First, as I capital and development funds to match said earlier, there is a good rationale for an that progress. international organization to plan and implement such a conference, particularly This is a major justification for such for Africa. However, I have to wonder what an investment promotion conference on will be the value-added contribution of the mining sector in Africa as MIGA has MIGA in organizing these events. Some begun today. would argue that a similar meeting can be planned and implemented by a private con- Throughout this conference, MIGA, sulting firm. Why do we have to do it, con- a member of the World Bank Group wishes suming precious staff time and administra- to help African members in their efforts to tive expenses? There should be appropriate market the mining potentials of their own justification for an international organiza- countries to private mining companies. tion with respect to the value-added in- These mining companies invited here are volved in its activities in comparison to the well known and conduct worldwide activi- private sector. ties. We currently have 30 African coun- tries as full MIGA members; 18 of these Secondly, it is also a political reality countries are represented in this confer- that there are some groups who contend ence. Three more countries sent observers. that support for mining investment in Af- I am particularly pleased also to announce rica should be stopped. They may be ex- on this occasion that the Republic of South treme environmentalists or those who be- Africa became a full MIGA member as of lieve that industrialized countries are just March 22 of this year. exploiting Africa's mining resources. Here they are referring to the need for environ- Throughout this conference, we mentally sound project preparation and hope our African participants will talk real developmental contributions to the Af- about their mining policies and regulatory rican economy through increases in pro- framework, and market their countries to cessing metals in order to bring more added potential investors. For that purpose, we value in the African region. International have prepared various booths for African organizations such as MIGA should be countries and potential investors to facili- mindful of these arguments and should tate their direct one-on-one contacts with promote only sound investments in the their partners in the future. African mining sector. We also hope that, throughout this Again, I would like to express my conference, African countries will learn thanks to those who have collaborated with from each other, sharing experiences and MIGA in organizing this event. future plans to bring about improvements in mining sector investment in the region. I welcome hearing from you - both Of course, promotional activities such as countries and investors - on how you feel this conference have their own limitations. about MIGA's role. Any suggestions regard- 58 ....9 oo... 9........* -... ..o..... ... o. ... . ......... AERAL Vr MINING IN x~J ~J CONFERENI SU' R L'iNv MIGA's Executive Vie President dwers ite keynte address at MIGAs Af MMming nvest- nient Conference held iJ Dener, Co"*,rado ing how we can bring about greater value- added to these kinds of promotional ac- tivities are also welcome. For this purpose, I hope you all will find the time to com- plete the Conference Evaluation Question- naire and Follow-up Survey which will be distributed to you later. This will make it possible for us to continue to provide you (both investors and MIGA members) with more useful services. Thank you. . .*. . . . .. . .. . .. . . . .. .. * a * a a a a a a a a a a a a 59 *-C 09......-C.... .- SdttZUflOJ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ oW0dZG9IJ~W-JO ~4fO lislu MARKETING A COUNTRY Speech by Mr. Akira Iida Executive Vice President MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT GUARANTEE AGENCY Executive Workshop on Country and Investment Projects Promotion in the Arab Countries DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES November 1, 1993 Al-Salam Aliekom. Excellencies, distin- Let us not dwell too much on the guished guests and participants, it is a great past, but let me talk about today and to- pleasure and honor for me to be able to morrow. Most of the countries in this re- participate in this important meeting and gion are both producers and exporters of to share with you various products and by- oil, and they are enjoying high standards products which may come out of our dis- of living because of oil. Modern civiliza- cussions during the course of this three- tion which we enjoy today, in a sense, is day program. the result of industialization which was advanced by large-scale energy consump- Coming originally from "the land of tion. We don't know how far it will go and the rising sun," it is particularly enjoyable for how long it will be sustainable. for me to be in the land where the sun is high in the sky. In this beautiful Arab re- We do know, however, that oil re- gion, the ancient civilization of mankind serves have their own limit and, therefore, flourished. The Tigris-Euphrates, the Nile, alternative sources of energy are being ex- the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean are plored seriously. So far, these efforts are not known as the cradles of Western civiliza- successful enough, economically speaking. tion. But it should not be forgotten that Fortunately or unfortunately, other sources they have made a significant contribution of energy, so far identified, cannot compete to Far Eastem civilization as well. Through with oil in terms of price and volume of the silk road and the sea route, cultural supply, as of today. products, together with commercial goods, were also exported from this region to We are also aware that, if the price the Far East. Today we can identify and of oil goes up, it will meet severe competi- trace the route both of economic transac- tion from other alternative energy sources. tions and cultural communication between This brings a sense of uncertainty about this region and other parts of the world, the long-term sustainability of the oil- thanks to advanced scientific technology. exporting economies. Therefore, oil export- Through these studies also, today we ap- ers are most concemed about diversifica- preciate more and more the contributions tion of industries within their national made to the world by the peoples of this borders and diversification of their capital region. around the world. S **.* * .. . *...........S................. ******.................................. 61 In ancient China it was said, "Once countries in this region. However, I believe you know yourself and your enemy well, the essence of the policy implication of FDI you will not endanger yourself in the hun- can be shared also by those countries. Many dred fights you will have in the future." developing countries, including these, will I think the leaders of countries in this re- need to be more effective in attracting FDI gion understand the meaning of this Chi- flow if they are to close the technology gap nese proverb better than anyone else. They with other high-income countries and up- are aware of the limit of their natural re- grade managerial skills, etc. sources and seem to plan diversification of their present resources, both inward and Peculiar to this region is that many outward, well ahead of time to secure suf- of the countries are not only seeking in- ficient flow of national income over the bound FDI but also are emerging as inves- long term and beyond the economic life of tors seeking the best opportunities to di- natural resources. versify capital. Keeping this particular feature in mind, let me proceed to the sub- For non-oil producers and non-oil ject of how to attract FDI flows into this exporters alike, the Chinese proverb also region. applies. To know yourself is the best strat- egy to win a game. If you are aware of your In my view, there are two things weaknesses, you can improve. If you are which need to be done: first, improve the not aware, you cannot. When you make im- investment climate, and second, market a provements, and you are equipped with country vis-a-vis potential investors abroad. marketable strengths, you have to market them. My remark leads me to the core is- Much has been said about improv- sue of today's meeting. ing investment climate, and there are many advisory services available from various First of all, let me share with you a internationaf organizations. So, I will not general observation regarding one impor- go further along this road. However, when tant subject of development, which is For- it comes to marketing a country, public rec- eign Direct Investment (FDI). Throughout ognition of its importance is not enough, the 1980s, leaders of developing nations in my view, and the modality to implement recognized that the "borrow and spend" it has not been fully explored. Allow me policy which facilitated economic growth to explain to you how important it is to in the earlier stages did not help them at market a country by taking, as an example, all. Debt management was so difficult and, the case of the car industry (Chart 1). Here when the party was over, some of the-coun- you have four agents - namely the con- tries were obliged to adopt severe auster- sumer, the car manufacturers, the financier ity plans under the name of economic re- and the insurer. structuring. Throughout the 1980s, the importance of FDI was recognized more The largest motivation for a con- and more as a growing source of equity sumer to purchase a car is, of course, his investment which brings with it consider- need to have a means of transportation ei- able benefits such as technology transfer, ther for business or personal use. Next, he management know-how, export marketing has to make a choice. The marketing ef- access, etc. forts of the various car manufacturers come into play here. They advise the consumer These remarks may not apply en- of the strengths of their product. If they tirely to some of the richest oil-exporting do not, the consumer will not buy, and this 62 .........oo o9 o........................ CHART 1. Importance of Marketing (Example of Car Business) Car In urer ~ requ s Io _ _ _ _ _ _ _ risk coverage _ Consumer INVESTMENT DECISION Motivation-needs of traportation i5~4q /cH / . 1 I l *\ } Selection of Cars-depends on marketing J : lsS/ . i I i \ \ .effort by car producer I Finacier . / marketing \[Level of Spending-depends on E E ,- Financier o: 7e | [- \ \ \ availabl7ity of financing E & / | { | \ \ f ~~~~~~~~Conclusioni fl s Insurer / :| } .\ \, \ 1. Importance of Car Insurance System i in general for Car Industry to prosper 2. However, limited role of Car Insurer M X - / - : _ _ I { i ~~~~~~~~~to affect individual consumer X GM Ford Toyota Honda etc, I a - i t 3. Impootance of Marketing by car rFinancier / . t rCar Producers t i producer to affect individual consumer will result in their withdrawal from the I will be very much interested in market. How much the consumer spends what happens in this region. But, in order on a car depends on the availability of fi- to continue, let me make a general obser- nancing. Only after the consumer's deci- vation which applies to other regions which sion to purchase a particular car at a cer- I know better. If investment promotion tain price does he come to an insurer asking agencies (IPAs) are not separated from for risk coverage. regulatory authorities, investors hesitate to expose themselves fully to IPAs. This is not From the above, we can draw three con- helpful to a particular IPA to do its man- clusions: dated promotional activities. (1) The existence of a car insurance Marketing is an area where specific scheme is important for the car in- skills are needed from preparation of in- dustry to prosper. formation kits to the after-care services (2) However, on the level of individual needed by their clients. It is wrong to as- decision-making to purchase a car, sume that clients are forming a long queue an insurer does not possess much le- in front of their offices just to apply for verage. investment authorization. Instead, in many (3) Rather, at this level, the marketing cases, you have competitors whose ad- effort is the biggest accountable vanced marketing technology may deprive factor. you of client investors. In an analogy to the above, we can Potential investors want to have ad- easily understand how important it is for a equate and timely information on host country to market itself vis-a-vis potential countries ranging from macroeconomic investors abroad. The importance and ne- performance to sector-wide strength, from cessity ofthis seem to be recognized by many regulatory framework to various incentive developing nations, because they usually measures, etc. They need the help of an have some national agency in charge of in- independent or neutral entity that can serve vestment promotion. Yet in many cases, they as a go-between, standing between them- are not separated from regulatory authori- selves and the regulatory authorities. These ties and their marketing technique is not days, they rely heavily on private consult- highly advanced. ants for those services. But, if this can be done by national IPAs, it would be most ................................. ...................................... 63 helpful and will be appreciated. In addi- to governments regarding private sector tion to these investor services, IPAs should management, privatization and private sec- develop their skills regarding (a) image tor policies. They have a window to deal building of a country, and (b) real "invest- directly with the private sector, which is ment-generating activities." described as the ECO in Chart 2. These are what "marketing a coun- The IFC is an institution engaged in try" is all about. After all, IPAs were cre- private sector lending. Also it provides seed ated for that particular purpose. Looking money to the private sector in the form of at the matter from this angle, I think that equity investments. They are active in ad- there is much scope for an international visory services in terms of financial market organization such as MIGA to offer its reform or institution building related to marketing assistance to IPAs. capital markets, etc. There is a joint ven- ture called FIAS, sponsored by the World Let me explain now MIGA's func- Bank, IFC and MIGA, which offers advi- tion within the context of its interactions sory services to governments regarding FDI with national IPAs. But before doing this, I and all private sector-related issues. The would like to explain to you the general General Manager of FIAS and the Senior nature of services rendered by different Regional Manager in charge of this region, institutions in the World Bank Group namely Messrs. Weigel and Arnaoot, are (Chart 2). listed on the program today as a modera- tor and panelist, respectively. I hope they First of all, the World Bank is a name will articulate FIAS's business better than used to represent two international insti- I do. tutions, the IBRD and the IDA. Its clients are primarily government and governmen- Lastly, about MIGA, you will find in tal agencies of member countries and their the chart a clear image of MIGA's services primary instruments are loans and credits. and its interactions with private investors, In some cases, they render advisory services host country governments and IPAs. C(HART 2. MIGA and Other Bank Group Institutions 64..........................W..ld..ank..C In essence, we give high regard to the briefly that we hope to enhance our col- role played by national IPAs as agents serv- laboration with the Inter-Arab Investment ing both national authorities and private Guarantee Corporation (IAIGC), both in co- investors. Without meaningful and ac- insurance and re-insurance, to better serve countable functioning by IPAs, the objec- the member countries in this region. tive to promote FDI will not be achieved. This is the reason why MIGA will be of- I know, of course, that IAIGC has fering marketing assistance to national IPAs another important function, which is in- and any other help needed by them to vestment promotion assistance. Like improve their own management. Further- MIGA, it has two arms to promote invest- more, MIGA hopes that through a dialogue ment, namely Guarantees and Promotional with IPAs, we will identify suitable promo- Assistance. These are the particular features tional programs to be implemented jointly. it shares with MIGA and, because of this dual mandate, both MIGA and IAIGC dis- I hope that Mr. Martin Hartigan, tinguish themselves from other national MIGA's Administrator in charge of its tech- guarantee agencies. However, IAIGC was nical assistance function, who is here par- created around the mid- 19 70s, more than ticipating in the Workshop Program as a 10 years earlier than MIGA. Therefore, panelist and presenter, will be able to de- I would say that IAIGC is an elder brother velop more fully the concept of marketing to MIGA. I am convinced that we will be assistance and the new initiative launched able to cooperate on these two fronts by MIGA to set up a worldwide IPA net- closely in the future. work. My role today, however, is not to elaborate on this in detail. But I find it very I am also happy to report to you on appropriate for me to stress the importance this occasion that, in my discussion with of the concept of "marketing a country" M. Jean-Marc Deroy of UNIDO yesterday, and, therefore, the importance of the role we agreed to explore, in the future, more of national IPAs. efficient ways of cooperation and coordi- nation of our program in this important The countries in this region are par- business of country promotion. In fact, our ticularly interesting to me because some cooperation has already started to materi- of them are not only interested in inbound alize in this regional program in which we investments, but also in outbound invest- are participating today. ments. If this region emerges as a regional economy, where inter-regional investments To conclude, ladies and gentlemen, are flowing strongly, it can produce good let me quote another ancient Chinese prov- clients for MIGA, both for MIGA's Guar- erb which says that "a thousand miles' antees and for its technical assistance team. travel cannot be accomplished without tak- In that event, I am convinced that the IPA ing a modest first step." A joint effort by network will be a most useful instrument, MIGA and national IPAs in this region may which MIGA can offer to the countries in result in great achievements, but this this region to attract investors from within should start with a modest effort to join and outside the region, and to be informed forces today. of investment opportunities all over the world. Thank you for your kind attention. Shokran. I did not spend much time on MIGA's Guarantees, but I would like to add very ...................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 0 * 0 0 e 9 6 5 1993 MIGA LUNCHEON SPEECH ON "P6iiidy Mxnns OF MIGA' 1993 IME-Worid Bank Group Annual Meetings WASHINGTON, D.C. Septembei 1993 In this speech, I reported to the friends of MIGA who attended the business lun- cheon, about four policy matters which MIGA manage ment was envisaging at that time: (1) evaluation of MIGA's Policy and Advisory Services, (2) marketing strat- egy of guarantees,  exannation of the reserves and capitA adequacy of MIGA and  the amennent of MIGA's operational regulation& These were subjects which led to a substantial reorientation of MIGA'stedmical aistance activities and the expansion and quality improvement of its guarantee activities. POLICY MATTERS OF MIGA Address by Mr. Akira Iida Executive Vice President MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT GUARANTEE AGENCY MIGA Luncheon SHOREHAM HOTEL, WASHINGTON, D.C. September 28, 1993 Ladies and gentlemen: I am very pleased I am a provocative speaker. For ex- to find many friends of MIGA here today. ample, I gave speeches on MIGA's role on Some of you were with us at the luncheon two occasions. These were received with last year, while others are new guests. Al- mixed feelings because they raised some though this event only started last year, I controversial issues. I enclosed these in the would like to make this luncheon an im- envelope as well. By the same token, to- portant MIGA tradition - to offer an op- day, I would like to talk to you about the portunity for everyone engaged in the in- issues MIGA is dealing with now and their vestment promotion and insurance implications for our relationship. business to get together and discuss or ex- change information on matters of common (1) MIGA is an international institution. concern. It has its own shareholders (coun- tries), clients and staff. MIGA man- This year we celebrate MIGA's fifth agers should satisfy all of them. How anniversary. (MIGA legally came into be- to satisfy our own staff and keep mo- ing in April, 1988.) We have much to share rale as high as possible is purely an with you, and you have received today an internal problem and, therefore, of envelope in which you will find MIGA's no interest to you. However, I am FY93 Annual Report. This report contains, pleased to tell you that the World in the latter part, a five-year retrospective Bank Group is very keen on these on MIGA. matters and regularly checks staff views on management attitude by Now I could explain to you briefly the use of external consultants ev- what were MIGA's achievements in these ery three years. This was the year five years. But I will not. These things can when we undertook such a study, the be found in the Annual Report. A factual results of which have just come out. statement on the past will be of no inter- We are expected to follow up in the est to you. You may be more concerned coming months to identify issues with what we will be doing tomorrow. Yet, thereof, and find appropriate solu- I will not do this either, because I don't tions. By the way, it may be of inter- want to tire you with a long speech. My est to you to know that this practice colleagues and I will be delighted to discuss started in the World Bank Group in this with you during and after our lunch. 1983, following the practice in the ................................... ................................. 67 U.S. private sector, and today it is also Management addressed all these being followed by some private sec- questions one-by-one. Let me elaborate on tor businesses of other regions, in- these issues very briefly, because I believe cluding Japan. It is heartening to these are issues which have an important learn that issues of management are bearing on our relationship with many of taken seriously and managers are try- you today. ing to catch up with changes in so- cial and cultural environments. (2) PAS. The PAS evaluation was done in May. On the basis of the lessons Nevertheless, we should not forget learned by this internal and critical that an international institution such as exercise, we have identified a new ini- ours exists to fulfill its mandate given by tiative for PAS, which was launched the shareholders and to serve its clients. We the day before yesterday in the PAS must satisfy our shareholder countries by Seminar to which the top manage- providing them with two types of services ment of national and local invest- mandated by MIGA's Convention, namely ment promotion agencies (IPAs) was increasing the flow of foreign investment invited. Some of them are here to- through the issuance of guarantees and day. In brief, the new PAS initiative provision of advisory services. is to try to unite national IPAs so that the synergistic benefit may maxi- FY93 was an important year for mize the development impact of MIGA as the year for policy review. When our joint effort. The background pa- I joined MIGA last July, the Board of Di- per of this seminar is also enclosed rectors asked me to present an Action Plan. in the package that you received. I am I immediately commissioned a task force very pleased to report to you today of MIGA staff members to prepare the that the seminar was well received Action Plan. by the intemational community, and I am confident that this new initia- It started by discussing MIGAs cor- tive will bring about an important porate identity and then identified prior- contribution to the world's invest- ity actions both in the Guarantees Depart- ment promotion business. ment that implement one of the mandates of MIGA and in Policy and Advisory Ser- (3) Guarantees. The clients of the Guar- vices (PAS), which, together with the For- antees Department are private inves- eign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS), tors. As with any commercial activ- provides promotional and advisory services ity, insurance needs marketing. We to our member countries. Throughout the have already submitted our Market- Board discussion, many policy issues came ing Strategy Paper to the Board, to- out. The members of the Board asked man- gether with our FY94 Budget and agement (1) to clarify the marketing strat- Business Plan. I will not go into de- egy of Guarantees; (2) to undertake an tail, but a key element of any good evaluation of PAS business in order to as- marketing strategy involves a signifi- sess the usefulness and effectiveness of past cant effort to increase public aware- PAS programs; (3) to assess the Reserves ness of MIGA. It is desirable that and Capital Adequacy of MIGA; and (4) MIGACs name be known to the pub- at the same time to amend MIGA's Op- lic as if it were Lloyds of London, or erational Regulations, which was also over- Prudential, but with its special stat- due on the agenda. ure as an international agency. The 68 ..........................................9 occasion of these Annual Meetings Fortunately, under MIGA's Conven- is a renowned opportunity when tion, although the initial gearing ratio is set many people in the financial com- at 1.5 times the capital and reserves, it may munity assemble from every corner be increased up to five times if the Coun- of the world. For this occasion, MIGA cil of Governors agrees. Having this in mind, produced a booklet - Financial In- management will propose to the Board in stitution Guide - and also held a due course an appropriate increase in the Guarantee Seminar yesterday for gearing ratio as an interim measure and, if people from the financial sector com- approved by the Council of Governors, we ing to the Annual Meetings of the are hopeful that this will also help solve World Bank Group and the IMF. This the country exposure limit, which is also is one of the ways to implement the becoming a headache for some countries marketing strategy which has come such as Argentina, Pakistan and Turkey, out of our earlier reflections. etc. Nevertheless, it is evident that we can- not rely only on a gearing ratio increase. On the other hand, in order to in- Although it is impractical indeed to pro- crease the user friendliness of our Guaran- pose a capital increase at this stage, we will tee product, we proposed an amendment have to start preparatory work at a certain to our Operational Regulations involving stage. With this in mind, work is underway improvements so that MIGA can be more to address the capital and reserves ad- effective and flexible and offer a better equacy of MIGA. For the time being, it will product to its clients. This was already dis- remain a study, but it should constitute an cussed by the Board in an informal session important component of the overall review and is awaiting formal Board discussion. of the MIGA exercise which is required by Article 67 of MIGA's Convention and (4) Last-let me mention MIGA's Guar- is scheduled to be reported to the Council antee Capacity. MIGA's total contin- by next June. gent liabilities (or amounts insured) already reached US$850 million. (5) Ladies and gentlemen, I have de- This number represents about 90% scribed for you today MIGA's impor- of total subscribed capital and re- tant policy issues because I believe serves, which are US$957 million as these will be the most relevant af- of the end of FY93. Under its Con- fecting the relationship between vention, MIGA can assume contin- MIGA management, shareholders, gent liabilities up to 1.5 times the clients and other institutions with total unimpaired subscribed capital which MIGA is cooperating. In con- plus reserves, which were, at the end clusion, I am glad to report to you of FY93, over US$1.4 billion. that MIGA is in good shape, not only in terms of its products, but also in While we have used only 60% of this its ability to adapt to the challeng- capacity, we are already preparing for an ing demands from shareholders and appropriate increase in Guarantee capac- clients. MIGA is also very happy to ity. The most orthodox approach to cope be able to cooperate and provide its with this kind of problem is a capital in- services to all of you. crease. But we are keenly aware that this will not be practical for some time for ob- I hope I will be able to report good news vious reasons. again to you in Madrid next year. ................................ ...................... (.e.0 * a69 "LAUNCING THE CQNCFIT QF TUE IPAnet" 93 WA Network Semin WASHINQTOR D.C. Sptemt# 12993 This speech Wa§ ddive?ed. at th IPA Network Seminar, which>was opt of the events during the IP3zWrid BaAYGtbix AhH&i4Mg&tIAgS i&Septeinber 1993. In thisspeech, the><¾lt> p tegmclQaliyutoolc shape after this IPkndwork srninbas&An$eiaha&fro 4ae&+orok 2 laborators. - - - LAUNCHING THE CONCEPT OF THE IPAnet Keynote Address by Mr. Akira Iida Executive Vice President MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT GUARANTEE AGENCY IPA Network Seminar September 26, 1993 Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. On cooling-off period in industrial economies MIGA's behalf, may I extend to you a most since 1990 has undoubtedly helped to ac- cordial welcome to our first IPA network count for the subsequent shrinkage of FDI seminar. there. We are meeting here today at a par- But FDI growth in the developing ticularly important juncture in the history world and in the economies in transition of development finance. I would venture has continued to zoom ahead since 1990, to say that never before has foreign direct despite the global economnic downturn. FDI investment been a more important consid- there about doubled between 1986 and eration in the development financing of our 1988; then it stagnated for a while. Now it member developing countries. Certainly, it appears to have about doubled again as of has never before been pursued so aggres- 1992. Because FDI inflows into industrial sively by so many nations, states, cities and nations have subsided in the meantime, the municipalities, in both the industrial and developing world and transition economies developing worlds. And to date, the over- can now claim over 30 percent of global all results have reflected this heightened FDI as of 1992, two to three times their attention. But can they be sustained? We share throughout the second half of the at MIGA think they can if we all join to- 1980s, and more than their share in earlier gether in initiatives such as the ones we periods. Perhaps even more remarkable is want to introduce to you today. FDI's new-found importance in the con- text of overall development finance. In the Just three years ago, global FDI last two years, FDI has contributed about reached the previously unimagined height a third of total long-term financial flows of exceeding US$200 billion in a single to developing countries. year. That was four times its level in 1986. Strong economic growth in the U.S. and Clearly, this is a remarkable accom- other industrial nations in the second half plishment. It reflects the widespread eco- of the 1980s, global corporate realignments nomic liberalization in host countries fa- in anticipation of Europe 1992, and cur- voring private trade and investment, and rency revaluations in strong Asian econo- the one-time gains resulting from privati- mies had a lot to do with this trend. The zation and debt-equity swap programs. It .......................................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 also reflects the launching for the first time Here at MIGA we place special em- of concerted investment promotion pro- phasis on supporting this trend. Our guar- grams by many host nations and states dur- antees program strives especially to cover ing the mid- to late 1 980s. Last but not least, the political risks of outbound and not only it is influenced by the emergence of newly inbound foreign investment for those coun- independent nation states in the former tries which lack foreign investment insur- Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Eu- ance programs of their own. But we need rope. the help of your IPAs in telling your multi- nationals about our services. This generally rosy picture, however, provides no grounds for complacency. MIGA's technical assistance pro- Some 20 or so of the larger market econo- grams likewise seek to strengthen the pros- mies claimed 85-90 percent of the total pects of outbound inter-developing world FDI going to the developing world in the FDI as well as inbound investment for our 1 980s, and this trend has been sustained, member countries. These programs are fo- if not further accentuated in the early cusing increasingly on multi-country ini- 1990s. The representation here today of tiatives which simultaneously help all many of these same countries suggests that countries and investors within a region- you are not taking anything for granted- for example, through regional investment that you recognize there may be ways to promotion conferences in sectors such as do better. tourism and mining-and activities within a global framework, such as our proposed The more concerted attention you IPA network. are now giving to investment promotion will, I am sure, pay dividends over the ThebenefitsofMIGA'sprograms are, medium term. And the support you are of course, most pronounced for those coun- giving to outbound investment to less- tries still doing less well in their FDI per- advantaged neighbors is a welcome devel- formance. Such countries are the primary opment in dispersing the benefits of FDI focus of our technical assistance, and we around the globe. The intermediate tech- are happy to have so many of you repre- nologies, export marketing know-how and sented here today. Through FIAS, our joint linkages that accompany such inter-devel- facility with the World Bank and IFC, a oping country investment are often more wide range of advisory assistance is pro- appropriate to host country conditions, and vided to your countries in improving in- they may hold the secret to jump-starting vestment policies, laws and regulations and the lagging economies throughout the de- institutional arrangements to attract FDI. veloping world. UNCTAD's Program on In its brief seven-year history, FIAS has as- Transnational Corporations estimates that sisted over 60 developing countries and already by 1990 close to 10 percent of the transition economies, some 44 of which are world's estimated 3 7,000 transnational cor- MIGA members. porations originated from outside the de- veloped countries, that is to say from within Even before the policy changes rec- countries such as yours. A substantial part ommended by FIAS and by others are in of their cross-border activity would natu- place, MIGA can still provide its guaran- rally occur within the developing world, tees coverage to member countries that and it can only strengthen the overall com- have already entered into investment pro- petitiveness and economic health of both tection agreements with us. This is an host and home countries. especially important consideration, for 72 .......................................... o o 9 o o o o example, in many of the economies in tran- After a review of these efforts, we've sition where changes to market-based sys- decided to sharpen our focus on capacity tems will take time. Our lawyers help to building of investment promotion agencies, negotiate such agreements, and they also or IPAs, in everything we do. As a result, provide advice on other investment legis- we have a number of new initiatives and lation and related legal issues, sometimes new approaches to our existing services through FIAS. that we want to share with you today to see if you think we're on the right track. If Last, there is MIGA's own Policy and we are, we think the resulting changes in Advisory Services group, or PAS, whose direction could have salutary effects on ev- program is discussed today. Since its op- eryone in the FDI marketplace. They would erations began some four years ago, PAS also bring all of us into much closer col- has assisted 21 member countries through laborative association than has been fea- investment promotion conferences and sible in the past. We look forward very missions, executive development programs much to your reactions today and to the which prepare domestic executives for opportunity to work more closely with you encounters with potential foreign partners, in the future. a policy roundtable in Africa and its fol- low-up workshops and research on global Thank you for being here, and I wish you a FDI trends. most productive meeting. ......................................... 0 . .....................a......................a.. 73 'AFRIcA WA ROUND TABLE ADDRESS"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 74 o9 o9 o* o * o WASHINGT9 eON D.C. *9o*9 9oa9o AFRICA IPA ROUND TABLE ADDRESS Keynote Address by Mr. Akira Iida Executive Vice President MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT GUARANTEE AGENCY September 28, 1993 Ladies and gentlemen, good aftemoon. Last ordination with our clients. Today, we hope Sunday some of you attended the MIGA to discuss with you how best to build upon conference where we introduced several the Ministerial Level Policy Roundtable management information systems which, discussions held last May in Gabarone and when used properly, can assist investment the follow-up workshops on deregulation promotion agencies in their activities to in order to attract foreign direct investment. attract foreign direct investment. As with In general, this afternoon should be used all technologies, information management to define the problems, opportunities, and systems must be applied in ways which constraints that you and your organization address the specific needs and circum- face in attracting foreign direct investment. stances you contend with in the execution of your jobs. In particular, it would be helpful if IPA heads, private sector leaders and rep- At MIGA, we are utilizing the tech- resentatives of other multinationals could nologies, as demonstrated, to improve the touch upon the following issues: effectiveness of the traditional services PAS has been providing Africa since our cre- * Prioritizing your industry targets ation. * Attracting investment for the devel- opment of natural resources, light In its short life span of 5 years, MIGA manufacturing, and the tourism in- has paid special attention to Africa. We dustry have organized investment promotion con- * Your strategies for attracting invest- ferences in Botswana, Namibia, and Ghana ments from East Asia and the Middle where entrepreneurs established contacts East as well as new capital and tech- with businessmen from North America, nology sources outside of Europe (the the European Community and Asia. traditional source for most ofAfrica) We have held executive development pro- and grams in the Lusophone African countries, * Overcoming negative misperceptions Swaziland, Lesotho, Namibia and Zambia of your countries. where local businessmen were sensitized to key elements of international business It is only when we obtain this infor- transactions. We are in the process of for- mation that we, as well as others here, such mulating assistance programs in select as the African Development Bank, African countries in North Africa. Business Roundtable, and the Global Coa- lition for Africa, could provide more effec- At MIGA, we strive to develop prod- tive services to you as IPA managers and ucts and services which are defined in co- our business sector clients. o ...*.*.*..............................* ............*.*.*.* *..*.*.*..a.* 75 At the end of this afternoon's session, the output would be an action plan for the region and for the different countries that could be implemented within the near fu- ture. In support of the action plan would be assistance programs by international or bilateral organizations, private sector groups, chambers of commerce and national gov- ernments. Finally, an important output we hope will be the creation of a mechanism to en- sure continuous dialogue among invest- ment promotion agencies, foreign and local private sector and supporting organizations like MIGA, the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Global Coalition for Africa (GCA) and the African Business Round- table (ABR) and other emerging regional business networks. You must define the agenda. We are here to be of service and we hope to keep the discussions going. 76 ..................... 0 A~~~~~~ 000000 0¶nnrrn'unvn'mnarrt nv 0 £Y ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ O " *z--Y @- -- -@ *v@ @IReee- @ @ gwef u uXm ktIrto m8m j- azY~M~s?fIIM NW CHOXOQING $IWEcH ON "¶hfr Rovr OF MIGA IN TIlE WESTERN PRovwicEs dr CmMv' 4LL1WL44Y.J U> Svei4vhisspe&h ikGhong4ingia A Paw4chnwaswakeadr the i4svre& bfp&aie>s$A4#Y0I wacdj'Wtd&atP#nces 4 china 4 nnci& diS4t4 4ereonAnbnd j4'&st45&&s re twideMng. 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WCA w4 lheli&4ewoiieofthe fi& iAt ncie&toktdh&undliar mere Ai&disrr 7 hdtfeh 4hi%Thiiei a i imp tan rentthi& tvthtontirstited gnat atiteecapalW ½ >1 ½ ½ ½ THE ROLE OF MIGA IN THE WESTERN PROVINCES OF CHINA by Mr. Akira Iida Executive Vice President MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT GUARANTEE AGENCY CHONGQING June 17, 1993 Ladies and gentlemen: It is a great plea- is one of the largest beneficiaries. The World sure and honor for me to be able to ad- Bank is the institution that covers both dress you on a matter of common interest, IBRD and IDA. namely "Foreign Direct Investment Promo- tion to the Western Provinces of China." The World Bank today handles a broad spectrum of issues that closely par- It has been my lifelong dream to allel the concerns of national governments visit Su-Chuang Shang and particularly aside from defense. Its clients are essentially Chongqing, the heart of its economy. As governments and govemmental agencies, you know, in my home country of Japan, and its primary objective is to provide long- everybody learns San-Guo-Shi (the tale of term lending to meet the essential needs three countries of the 2nd and 3rd centu- of developing countries to improve their ries A.D.). Consequently, all of us have nations' welfare, infrastructure and produc- strong compassion for the fate of Liubang tive capacities. and his construction of the new state, Shu. Today, the World Bank's annual dis- bursements for China have reached an av- -T MIGA 3. TE - - .v erage of US$ 2-3 billion, and they are di- rected toward the construction of railways, WORLD nANKroads, ports, dams, power stations, etc. In a way, the Bank is mainly occupied with the First, let me add a few words to explain to development of the public sector. you the role of MIGA within the World Bank Group. What about the private sector then? The IBRD was established in 1945 to help countries in matters of reconstruc- Within the World Bank Group, IFC (the tion and development. In the early 1960s, International Finance Corporation) was a soft window called IDA (the International created in the mid-I 950s with the princi- Development Association) was set up in pal purpose of encouraging the flow of pri- order to provide long-term credit for 35- vate capital through lending to the private 40 years' maturity without interest to sector, both in the form of equity partici- poorer member countries, and today China pation and the provision of loans. ******.*.*.*......** .*.*.*.. ......* ............a.................. 79 After all, for a country to take off, it regarding the sound development of the is now essential to encourage the sound private sector in developing member coun- development of the private sector in that tries. FIAS was first created by IFC in the country so that its economy can be self- mid-1980s before the creation of MIGA. supporting from its own economic activi- Today, it is transformed into a joint ven- ties, rather than continue to rely on for- ture sponsored by the three institutions: eign aid. IFC is also at work in China, and IFC, MIGA and the World Bank. As such, its representative office was established in FIAS serves as their instrument to advise Beijing in October 1992 to respond to the governments on improving their invest- growing needs of the future. ment climate and policies related to FDI matters. MIGA, the newest member of the World Bank Group, came into being in FIAS has been active in China for 1988. Its purpose is to promote foreign di- some time now. Two members of FIAS rect investment in its developing member have been visiting various Chinese cities for countries under its dual mandate-first, its the past week under arrangements made investment guarantees against noncommer- by the Chinese Government (MOFTEC). cial risks, and second, its investment pro- Presently, they are in Chongqing to assist motion and advisory services. me in this gathering. Although both the IFC and MIGA So far, I have spent a great deal of are sister organizations of the World Bank, time explaining MIGA and its organiza- they were established under separate in- tional relationship to the World Bank Group, ternational agreements, and are legally and because MIGA is a relatively new organi- financially independent from the World zation and its function is not yet well un- Bank. However, they form a group by vir- derstood. tue of the fact that the president of the World Bank is ex-officio the president of both IFC and MIGA, and also by the fact Iu4 Y P L M that the Governors of the World Bank Group institutions are mostly the same. [In the case of MIGA, a few member coun- X tries have nominated different governors, since MI GAs function is not necessarily the NETVtKNJS function of finance ministers who are nor- mally appointed as Governors for the Let me make a few remarks about the pur- World Bank and IFC). pose of my visit today and the future role of MIGA in the Western Provinces of Policy coordination among the World China. However, before I do this, let me Bank institutions is maintained by virtue of the considerations I just mentioned. An example of such coordination is seen in the iAt the time this speech was delivered, MIGA was one of case of FIAS (the Foreign Investment Advi- the sponsors of the tripartite joint venture together with case o FIAS(the oreig InvetmentAdvi- IFC sod the World Bank. However, starting July 1994, sory Service), which is a joint venture among MIGA ceased to be the sponsor of FIAS and has with- the three institutions, ' drawn from Policy Advisory Services leaving the function to be taken care of by the other institutions of the World Bank Group. The technical assistance activities of MIGA As I suggested earlier, the World Bank have been restructured to focus on Investment Marketing Services, and the name of the unit in charge of such ser- Group has a legitimate and real concern vices has been changed accordingly. 80 ..........................................oo 9o *o a o o o dwell for a short time on the philosophical The symbolic fall from power in issues regarding a market economy and the Eastern Europe and Russia was not a de- importance of investment. feat of socialism per se, but it was in my personal view a defeat of political power China is a country of great philoso- which failed to meet the basic principle of phers. Most of the Asian people, including politics which was called in ancient Chi- the Japanese, highly value Chinese philoso- nese philosophy "Tien-ming"- the com- phers such as Lao-zu (8th century B.C.?), mand of the Universe. Gong-zu (551-479 B.C.), Mon-zu (372- 289 B.C.), Chong-zu (3-4C.B.C.) and so On the other hand, capitalism based on. There are so many "zus" who over time on its existing philosophy of market have become the backbone of Asian culture, economy is ailing. Throughout the industri- which differs significantly from occidental alized world, in the United States, Japan and culture in terms of the sense of values, so- Germany, their economies are facing prob- cial and family morals, the role of govern- lems and a way out has not yet been found. ments, etc. It is clear that the economy has its Even under the socialist government cycles in which it swings from depression of China, the Chinese people cannot re- to overheating. When economists were ject the spirit of Chinese culture which has dwelling too much on the theory of "mar- evolved over centuries with its history ket equilibrium," John Maynard Keynes originating from these philosophies. I know (1883-1946) introduced the theory of that some may wish to get rid of the spells "effective demand." cast by these philosophers in order to lib- erate the society from certain old customs Whether modern economists like it or political discipline. However, if you look or not, they became Keynesian when pro- carefully at what the Chinese people are posing an appropriate prescription to cope doing, their behavior can be explained by with economic deflation. Effective demand these philosophers' sayings. Even when the can be stimulated by government procure- Chinese Government launches important ment. No other economic theory offered strategies, they are markedly different from an alternative prescription to regulate the what people in the occidental world can short-term fluctuation of macroeconomic conceive. activities. In Keynes' "Theory of Effective Demand," we find an emphasis on the role Let us take as an example the con- of government and the importance of in- cept "socialist market economy." Some vestment in the process of economic growth. occidental economists look down at such a concept for being self-contradictory. Plan- Another great economist who had as ning and market economy cannot march important an influence as Keynes is Joseph hand-in-hand. Furthermore, some say that Schumpeter (1883-1950). In contrast to socialism has been defeated. Since the fall Keynes, Schumpeter emphasized the role of the Berlin Wall, a massive destruction of the private sector in the long-term pro- of socialist economies took place from cess of economic growth, especially the role Oder-Neisse to Siberia. However, I do not of entrepreneurship in bringing about tech- share these views. Chinese Socialism has nological innovation. This theory is particu- not been defeated. Its economy is rising. larly important in understanding the eco- There are still some socialist governments nomic growth of Japan. According to a in power in Western Europe. researcher, 60% of Japan's rapid economic .......................................... ................................... 81 growth throughout the period 1965-1975 Schumpeter are right or not. However, in is attributable to its technological inno- light of the situation I have described, I am vation. interested in the concept of "a socialist market economy," which puts more em- In any event, the concept of eco- phasis on the equitable distribution of in- nomic growth was developed by two gi- come among people. Nevertheless, very ants, one related to short-term adjustment little has been said or written about this of economic fluctuation and the other to subject so far. I believe that it is of vital the longer-term analysis of economic cycles. importance that this concept be developed One stressed the importance of the role of further on an empirical basis, because no government and the other the role of en- existing economic theory can explain and trepreneurship in the private sector. provide perfect prescription for the un- known changes which are going to take The most important thing, however, place in the future. Therefore, the Chinese is that Schumpeter predicted that the suc- experiment2 deserves significant attention cess of capitalism itself will lead to its fall, not only from the practical economic in- which will prepare the route to socialism. terests viewpoint, but also from a theoreti- While the prevailing view in the occidental cal point of view. world is that socialism has failed, there are also some worrisome symptoms that may suggest the weakness of capitalism such as the widening income distribution gap, etc. When an economy is in difficulty, entrepreneurs usually press the govern- ment to do something to bail them out, I have already taken a long time before instead of being technologically innovative embarking upon the issue of investment themselves. At the same time, entrepre- promotion, which is the main purpose of neurs often accuse the government of be- my visit to Chongqing. By now, I hope it ing interventionist in regulating market af- has become clear to you why I dwelt so fairs. There is a clear symptom of decline long on the philosophical presentation of in entrepreneurship which is the base of economic theory. My point is that invest- the capitalist economy. In short, today's ment is vital for economic growth, and it capitalism has its problems. can be done even under the concept of "a socialist market economy." A Japanese philosopher, Takeshi Umehara, remarked recently that the world Given the enormous size of the gap economy is under the spell cast by Karl between the available domestic savings and Marx (1818-1883). According to Mr. the amountrequiredtofinanceplannedin- Umehara, Marx may have been wrong in vestments, the financing gap in China is providing the right prescription for the huge. economy of his time, but his criticism of 19th Century capitalism was right. Karl 'There are some economists who say that there is no such Marx's revenge is now at work and the thing as "socialist market economy". However, the market capitalist world is in trouble. is a place whiere people gather. When capitalists gathier, capitalist world is in trouble. they form the capitalist market economy and when so- cialsts gather, the socialist market economy; why not? The I don't know whether the predictions difference may lie in the role of govemnment in the mar- ket mechanism played on hehalf of the weaker, either- di- of these great philosophers like Marx and rectly or indirectly. 82 ......................................... The experiment of the 1980s tells us It is no more isolated from the rest of the that debt management is most difficult. world. On the contrary, it is becoming in- The "borrow and spend policy" has put creasingly integrated with the outside world many countries in trouble throughout the through its international trade, external last decade. This is one of the reasons which borrowing and the hosting of foreign di- precipitated the creation of MIGA in the rect investment. latter half of the 1980s. As a member of the World Bank As I said earlier, MIGA's mandate is Group's senior management, I firnly believe to promote foreign direct investment (FDI) that cooperation with the Chinese Govem- to developing countries, where domestic ment in order to achieve a soft landing of savings are insufficient. In such situations, the Chinese economy on the right track of investment is the major factor of growth and stabilized development is one of the top FDI will be required not only from the view- priorities of the World Bank Group. MIGA, point of filling the financing gaps, but more with its special mandate to promote FDI, importantly from the viewpoint of devel- started consultation with the govemment in opment impact in terms of technology trans- Beijing and we both agree that MIGA's ef- fer, creation of new markets, employment fort to promote FDI in the Westem Prov- opportunities, etc. inces will be vital to achieve that objective. We know very well that FDI is tak- In 1979, the Chinese Government ing place very rapidly in the coastal prov- initiated its developmental strategy by cre- inces in the southern part (Fa-nan di-chu) ating the "dots," namely Shen-zeng, Zhu- and the northeastern part (Don-bei di-chu) hai, Shan-Tou, and Xia-meng, as Special of China. However, this good news is ac- Economic Development Quarters. This companied by newly arising problems, was followed by the designation of four- namely a rapid rise in wages and prices in teen open-port cities in 1984. During the these provinces and hence a growing dis- period from 1985 to 1988, the Yanzu River parity between the coastal and inland prov- Delta District and others were designated inces in terms of income distribution and as coastal economic liberation areas. These other economic factors. initiatives were coupled with the decision in 1990 on the "Shang-hai Bu-dong devel- From the viewpoint of economic opment project," followed by the decision management under the concept of a so- in 1992 on 36 cities to be opened to for- cialist market economy, it is of vital impor- eign investment, including Chongqing and tance to contain the disparity within a per- four other important cities on the Chang- missible range. If such an effort can be Jian (or Yanzu River). successful, China will be a great economy in the early 21st century and will offer a This development in Chinese policy great market and business opportunities for clearly demonstrates the strategy to first the rest of the world. On the other hand, draw several "dots"; then make them into a if the economic management goes wrong, line; expand the line into a zone; and then there will be significant adverse effects on extend the zone all over China. This strat- the neighboring countries. egy is nothing other than the strategy described by Sun-zu (6th century B.C.) and China, with its huge population of this is why I said in the beginning that even more than 1.2 billion, has become the fo- the socialist government of China cannot cal point of the world economic interest. escape from its traditional culture. * * * * . * . . .................................... * . . . . * *. * * * . 83 I would say that this is a very ortho- I will meet with the leaders of five West- dox and commendable approach to eco- ern Provinces and the municipality of nomic development, and I do not hesitate Chongqing in a panel discussion. We will to add that there are a number of my col- talk to you about the strengths and weak- leagues in Japan who applaud the effort. nesses of each of the provinces from the Yet Chinese efforts for further economic viewpoint of foreign investors. We shall development are facing a critical phase as discuss priority sectors, strategies to attract to whether they will succeed or not. foreign investors, and possible future co- operation between MIGA and the authori- In my observation, since the early ties of the Western Provinces. 1970s, the Chinese economy experienced a rise and fall on three occasions. Each time To conclude, ladies and gentlemen, when the economy declined, China faced let me quote from "Lun-yue," the famous a political crisis. Now, the Chinese economy word of Confucius, (Gong-zu) which lit- is on the fourth rise and approaching an erally means, "Ask for the old practice and overheating stage. Some investors are con- find out the new wisdom" (Wen-gu-zhi- cerned as to what will happen in the next sin). In our case, let me translate it in the stage. following manner: 'Ask for the origin of the problem and find out the solution." An effort to contain the widening provincial disparity within a manageable Based on that, let us discuss the is- range is, therefore, a top priority for China sues that are of common concem to us, and in the formulation of a soft-landing policy. let us try to find a way to cooperate in the future, so that we can make some practical I have come here with staff from contribution to the concept of a "socialist MIGA's guarantee and investment promo- market economy" in China. tion departments. I am also accompanied by two FIAS staff members engaged in pri- Thank you for your kind attention. vate sector-related advisory work. This af- temoon, we will present to you a cross- section of our business. Tomorrow moming, 84 ..................... S8 *e@*@-¢-@@@@@@@@@e**e**e***.............. -...p m w1 .. * . . . . BRUSSELS SPEECH ON "THE SPECIAL ROLE OFMLGA IN THE WORLD BANK GROUP't BRUsSELS, BELGIUM Manh 1993 Mr. Bernard Snoy, then-Executive Director of the Bank Group institutions, repre- senting Belgium, kindly invited me to a meeting in Brussels with representatives of the Belgian private business commurfity. I delivered this speech in French in March 1993. The English translation is included. THE SPECIAL ROLE OF MIGA IN THE WORLD BANK GROUP by Mr. Akira Iida Executive Vice President MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT GUARANTEE AGENCY BRUSSELS March 8, 1993 Some say that the Chinese think ahead for sults in a short period of time. U.S. execu- 1,000 years, the Japanese for 100 years, and tives are expected to set targets and to Americans for three months. Put in this achieve them quickly. When they are seen way, it could be understood as being criti- as not succeeding, their Boards of Direc- cal of the Americans for never looking be- tors expect them to accept the conse- yond the short term; but it can also be in- quences and leave. terpreted in the Chinese case as criticism of the slow pace at which things change in In July 1992, President Bush visited the former Middle Kingdom. In the Japa- Tokyo with 30 business leaders. At that nese case, the saying does not quite con- time, I was an executive at JETRO, and we vey the real facts behind the words. arranged a luncheon in their honor. Each JETRO executive hosted a table. At my Originally, this was a slogan coined table were Mr. Robinson, president of by the Meiji officials after the fall of the AMEXCO, and Mr. Stempel, president of old Tokugawa regime. These officials were GM. At another table were Mr. Iacocca of criticizing the short-term thinking of the Chrysler, Mr. Poling of Ford and others. Japanese public at that time and wanted Today, after not quite a year, these men are to impress on them the need for a plan that all gone, except for Mr. Poling. This shows would remain valid for 100 years. They how strong extemal members of the Board started with a general improvement of pri- are in U.S. business. mary education, they sent students abroad (mostly to Europe) and they invited large As one can see, everything appears numbers of foreigners to come to Japan as differently depending on the angle it is advisers in many fields. You are all aware viewed from. I will not ask how far the of the results achieved, even though it may Europeans are looking ahead.You know the be a matter of opinion whether they were answer much better than I do. But how truly fruitful. about intemational organizations, especially development institutions like the World As to the three-month horizon that Bank? I would say that, in my opinion, they Americans are said to have, it is often cited ought to be looking at least 10 years ahead, as a criticism but it also points out the effi- if not 20. ciency of U.S. businesses in achieving re- .................................................................87 The IBRD loans have an average for infrastructure projects in fields such as maturity of 15-20 years and IDA credits energy, telecommunications, roads and rail- (the Bank's soft window) are granted for ways, irrigation and so on. Social concerns 35-40 years. MIGA's coverage runs for up began to be addressed in the late 1 960s and to 15 years, in special cases, even 20 years. 1970s. The Bank's portfolio was expanded As you can appreciate, the Bank Group is to include concems such as education, popu- involved in projects with very long lives. lation and health, while toward the end of This is one of the reasons we need to look the 1980s environmental and women's sufficiently far ahead. issues assumed growing importance. On the economic side, throughout the 1 980s struc- Next year will mark the 50th anni- tural adjustment, review of government's versary of the Bretton Woods Conference. role and privatization emerged as the main However, we are today hearing increasing topics, together with the growing debt criticism regarding the performance of the problem. institutions conceived on that occasion. Some of these criticisms are justified, but This steady increase in the World others are not (this is something I do not Bank's portfolio can sometimes give the want to go into right now). However, if you impression that some people want to shift want to think about the role and useful- the dirt from in front of their doors and ness of a development institution and how dump it in front of the Bank's. How can best to improve its performance, you have the Bank Group successfully deal with such to adopt a perspective which is sufficiently an overload? I feel there is a certain con- long. I can remember that back in the late tradiction between the role assigned to the 1 960s the value of the World Bank's assis- Bank and the means placed at its disposal. tance was already being questioned. The But I will come back to this issue later. book Aid as Imperialism criticized it as a commercial promotion instrument of the The World Bank's concern for the donor countries. The problems concerning promotion of the private sector led to the lack of follow-up, inefficiencies in project creation of IFC in 1956. The next stage was execution or accumulation of undisbursed the establishment in 1965 of the Interna- amounts were certainly there 20 years ago. tional Centre for the Settlement of Invest- Today, these same criticisms are being ment Disputes (ICSID).This was followed heard again both inside and outside the more recently by the establishment of Bank. In an institution, self-criticism is a MIGA in 1988 and the creation within the sign of health, while outside criticism Bank of a new Vice Presidency (Finance should be carefully examined to see andPrivate Sector Development) atthe be- whether it can lead to positive solutions. Yet ginning of the year. I will not go into the I can asstire you that throughout the Bank's details regarding the history of these insti- approximnately 50-year history much of tutional changes within the World Bank value has been achieved. The average stan- Group; I just want to emphasize that the dard of living has improved significantly creation of MIGA marked a very signifi- in many developing countries, although we cant change in the approach to questions must not forget that this has also been concerning the private sector and greatly largely the result of the self-help efforts of increased the scope of the Group's activ- the countries concerned. ity in this field. After all, for a country to take off, you need a successful private sec- In the early days, the Bank played a tor. You cannot rely permanently on aid. A very important role in providing assistance country has to develop a private sector by 88 . 00... 0.. 0.. 0.. 0. ... ..0.....0 0.....................0a 0 itself and the World Bank Group can pro- sion aims - while political, social or even vide focused assistance in this effort. This personal factors may also enter the picture. objective is clearly stated in Article 2 of When investors are pressed to state their the MIGA Convention: real reasons for investing in a particular country, be it in South America, Africa or "The objective of the Agency shall Asia, they will quite often answer that it is be to encourage the flow of invest- the place where they spent their childhood, ments for productive purposes or where their forebears came from, or for among member countries, and in par- which they were asked to provide certain ticular to developing member coun- technology and, in doing so, decided to es- tries " tablish themselves there. Although many approaches can be taken in trying to iden- MIGA has two main instruments for tify the macroeconomic factors underlying promoting foreign direct investment in an investment decision, they take you so developing countries. One is its Guaran- far but no further; while at the micro level tee Program, and the other, its Technical it is quite impossible to explain this type Assistance services. Let me explain who the of decision on economic grounds alone. beneficiaries of these services are. The par- ties concerned are, respectively, private in- Whatever the reasons for an invest- vestors in industrial countries, the private ment decision, the right opportunity for sector in the host countries, and their gov- implementing it has to be found, economic ernments. In order to clarify the relation- and technical feasibility studies have to be ship among them, let me use the example conducted, financing has to be negotiated of PC software. Here, too, you have three and both commercial and political insur- distinct parties: software producers, hard- ance coverage arranged. One of the major ware producers and the users. MIGA would features of the MIGA Technical Assistance be the software producer, while private program is that it helps the investment pro- investors in the member countries and their motion agencies that exist in many devel- joint-venture partners in developing mem- oping countries to market their countries ber countries would be the users. The host successfully and provide necessary informa- country governments could be compared tion for potential investors. MIGA is also with the hardware producers in that, as the active in many countries through its jointly range of available software increases, so managed venture, the Foreign Investment benefits accrue to the host country through Advisory Service (FIAS). These are both the development of the country's private ways of promoting foreign direct invest- sector. This is the reason the governments ment. of developing countries have a strong in- terest in MIGA's services and this is why The development impact of these they are willing to pay the required capital activities can be described as follows. In the subscription to become members of the case of Guarantees, it is tangible. You can Agency. count the number of jobs created, the amount of foreign exchange earned and so And what of Technical Assistance? on. In the case of Technical Assistance, it is You, as private investors, are well aware that not so easy because it is difficult to assert the reasoning behind investment decisions categorically that technical assistance ac- can be very complex. There may be eco- tivities have really generated a particular nomic factors in play - labor costs, for investment. (As I already noted, the real instance, tax incentives or market expan- motivation behind an investment decision * . *.*.*...***.*................................... * ................ 89 is highly complex and therefore almost When all is said and done, it is people impossible to pin down.) In other words, who spend the money. And if the money is the fruits of technical assistance are so in- not used efficiently, it will not help further tangible that their development impact is development. Although the Bank is most difficult to quantify. But one can readily concerned to ensure that funds are used as understand how important it is for a efficiently as possible, if a competent per- country's development for it to possess son is not found to be put in the right place human resources capable of planning and at the right time, the implementation of a executing a project efficiently, whether in project will not be entirely satisfactory. In the private or the public sector. Japan, there is a song people love to sing in the Karaoke bars and that says in effect, When I said earlier that there is a "Man is both the castle and the wall sur- certain contradiction between the role the rounding the castle." In other words, people World Bank Group is expected to play and are more important than anything else. This the resources made available to it, I had is why, 100 years ago, during the Meiji res- this particular problem in mind. Except for toration, people invested in people. MIGA, both the Bank and IFC were de- signed as financing institutions. Financing Today, one hears frequent references is concemed about recovery of the invested to the Asian miracle, but there is not really money. Therefore, financiers have a legiti- any miracle. In those Asian countries that mate concern regarding the economic, have made strong progress, people are well technical and financial feasibility of a educated and disciplined and there is a solid project. This is the main reason they em- bureaucracy, whether efficient or not. In ploy so many experts as economists, finan- other words, they have good men to de- cial analysts, engineers and so on. The im- fend the castle and its walls. portant point here is that these people are well able to make the required appraisals, As far as investment promotion is but they are not the ones who have to ex- concerned, MIGA considers this a very ecute the projects. Implementation is up to important point and is prepared to help the host country or the private sector. In a developing countries by contributing some sense, I wonder whether the World Bank additional value-added to their business Group has devoted enough attention to de- promotion efforts through enhancement of veloping human resources in the develop- the efficiency of their investment promo- ing countries. Just putting up the money to tion agencies. MIGA is also looking forward hire consultants to implement a project is to developing activities of its own in the not necessarily the most helpful move in this field of support to investment guarantee context. It is true that there has been a mod- schemes. In addition to its core business, est training effort for many years, but it has which is guarantee services, MIGA is pre- not been a primary objective. pared to make a significant contribution in this area through its technical assistance activities. 90 .......................................... OFFICERS OF THE -AGENCY (ast of June- 30j7~19-96 Shengman Zhang, Vwe Presidlent and Secreuny' Daniel E Conway Manage,'Office-ofCltAdmin~rio Luls$ Doder, cer President and GMenerl 0,unset - Leigh P Hollwod Vwresle; at~ Martin 1lanigan, Adminisrator lestmnt MakeigSrcs Akira lida, Executive Vice President. ~Karin Millett replced John IGriffi th retired Martin Hartigan and ias eplaced by _above) as of Danel E Conway Novmb6er 1` 1996, (above) ac-s of Novemb&er Is' 1995~ .:aXH.;ePesggtdae y- .......................... ; ; :.t 9.1 * Z6 UT SUUIdOpAp W?iIOd pu cUIOUO3  Aq ppn c{ O  I11A tpdS  p uuiid tjj uoIsstosIp ip jo mexs .xofrux p p suuai u ppou.nno 4p seiw j i6 rqj u wartji pnu tp u6 psnzoj ipds Atu pojoj Rpunbsqns  UOssnJsip p wip PEJ p Xq pspcLins SM I '.TAMOH UOTJ JPcV!W  U! VJAVNP UIWd   c uuw sd  sri  IT'rnJ q ou JflOM M   uou;uoci ,&ui ux   Stw pun aTM suo -OUVdAVN U!S SsuTsflq p SJpOUX JUpPZQ ptrn usy  UM1q sau  p$snSp pu siuoij 1ciTod uo Utf Jt{wJ UOJj UUXWAU!  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Islam and Hin- REGION cduism are the strongest driving forces of politics in Southem and Western Asia. Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: Fam- ily values is one of the important credos of I am referring now to the diversities President Bush's campaign. of the Asia and Pacific region. This region is diverse in many ways. Not only in terms Confucius said, "Family values are of religion, it is diverse in terms of racial mine, not yours, Mr. Bush." Whether he did origin, the language spoken, social and fam- say so or not doesn't matter. When Ameri- ily customs, etc. The diversity gives rise to cans refer to Mr. Confucius in their daily con- differences in the sense of values, sense of versation, it is often related to a joke. Such duty and life style. In most cases, such dif- is the case of nonsense jokes coming out of ferences exist within the country as well fortune-teller boxes in Chinese restaurants as across the region. How to manage such in America. But Mr. Confucius is still alive diversity will be a crucial factor for a coun- in Korea. We can't understand what is tak- try and for the region as a whole in deter- ing place in Korean politics today without mining their own development process. understanding what he said 25 centuries ago. When adressing the subject such as Although Confucianism is dispelled ours today, you may wish to share with me by the Chinese Communist Party, it is a the same observation that Diversity man- part of Chinese culture today. Different agement can be, and in fact is, a key factor schools of Buddhism are active in various of policy formation. In this strange termi- parts of Asia. But politically speaking, like nology of Diversity management, I propose Confucianism, they are not strong driving to understand the whole process of a ....................................... . S *. . * * S S * * * * * S * S S * S S S S 93 nation's effort to make people having dif- countries (except for Japan) for their good ferent backgrounds in terms of race, reli- economic performance throughout the gion, or language coexist harmoniously in period. Many other countries such as Thai- a school, in a business circle, in a commu- land, Malaysia, Indonesia, and so on were nity or in any economic and social frame- left far behind because they were still in work of a nation. Such is the challenge which the process of finding an agreement or com- Eastern Europe and the Former Russian promise on a political front among politi- Republics are facing today. (A mere analy- cal leaders representing various interest sis of diversity existing in the region in eco- groups based on such diversities within nomic terms will not be sufficient to un- their own territories. And they made it!7 derstand why Asian countries are doing In a certain sense, Asian countries are ad- better than elsewhere. People say that di- vanced countries in terms of diversity man- versity is the very source of the dynamism agement. in the region. But, you may say it more ap- propriately that the excellent way of man- The Asian way of diversity manage- aging diversity made them work all to- ment has also set up an interesting ap- gether in a positive direction. I am referring proach in formulating or not formulating here to the way they formulate their own at all a forum of cooperation within the institutions and the role of governments region, which is conspicuously differentfrom in the enforcement thereof) the Occidental approach. Nevertheless they seem to be starting now to rethink the Clear differences of approach are seen way to enhance mutual cooperation within here between Asians and East Europeans the region in view of the emergence of or Former Russians as to the role of gov- NAFTA in North America and the EEA ernments. Many occidentals consider that plan in Europe. I will be glad to develop my Asian governments are more intervention- thoughts on this soon. ist than theirs and say that the free market approach shouldprevail so that an economy But before doing so, let me say this. I can perform in more efficient ways. The started my presentation by mentioning the problem here is that you cannot go into strange notion of diversity management and free market systems unless diversity in the the role of Govemment, simply because I political, social and economic fronts is well believe it is relevant to our discussion today. managed. Otherwise it will end up with In other words, I believe that the recogni- the victory of the stronger. And racial, reli- tion of this notion will certainly provide a gious or other differentials will aggravate better angle of approach to the matter. the confrontations among people so that the very diversity existing in an economy If we are to discuss the matter to find would adversely affect the economic per- out where lies our mutual interest namely formance of the country. the interest of U.S. and Japan in the region, and to look into how we can cooperate in Many of the Asian countries have materializing this interest and to assess the started their new life as independent na- prospects of such policy efforts, we should tionsjust after the SecondWorldWar.They address the following question: in what started with an appalling state of underde- terms do the developing countries in the velopment and poverty. region, wish to cooperate with us? A uni- lateral sale of our sense of values or mere In the 1950s, only the Philippines and sale of economic interests should be avoided. Burma were praised among East Asian Instead, they should be listened to first, be- 94 ............. .. .. .......... cause their sense of values and their eco- or contributions from their more devel- nomic interests might be different from or oped partners. The nations in the region may even be in conflict with ours. In this may be roughly grouped into four differ- context, I am somewhat concerned, as a ent categories, according to an internal pa- manager of an intemational agency, about per of the World Bank. The criteria of such the way both the U.S. and Japan are behav- classification is per capita income ranking. ing in the region. It seems to me that both governments and private sectors tend to (1) Graduates: Singapore, Hong Kong, care mostly about their interests and care Taiwan (China) less about the quality of their contribution (2) High fliers: Korea, Malaysia and in the region. What they give to the na- Thailand (percentile position of 60% tions in the region tends to be given at times and above) just because they can afford it and not be- (3) Socialist economies in transition: cause they are wanted by those countries. China, Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia, Of course, it is a question of relative judge- Vietnam, Myanmar and North Korea ment and I do not deny that sincere efforts (4) Island economies, large and small: are being made in some cases. But, the Indonesia, Philippines, PNG and question is whether general perceptions in smaller Pacific countries (Ibid. 30- the region support such a view. I am also 60%) concerned about the trend throughout the 1980s of a rapidly diminishing U.S. pres- Some might say that South Asian ence in the region. countries such as Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are forgotten. Some others might argue that southern 2. MODEL OF former Russian republics should also be in- COOPERATION : cluded in the formulae. ASIA ANX PACIFIC The above Taxonomies are appar- ently academic and do not necessarily pro- REGION_- vide a practical format for regional coop- -- - - eration. For example, you can't group the These observations quickly lead me to ASEAN countries into three different present to you a question as to what should categories, despite the fact that they are be the desirable Model of Cooperationz in the participating in the ACEAN treaty as equal Asia and Pacific Region in which both U.S. partners. Nevertheless, these taxonomies and Japan have mutual interests of vital im- can be useful in identifying the appropriate portance. menu for cooperation. First, about Taxonondes. When seek- The important question is how far ing a desirable Model of Cooperation, it is and in what priority the U.S. and Japan may appropriate to start with taxonomies be- wish to help these different groups of na- cause the menu of cooperation may vary tions and what will be the appropriate menu from one group of countries to another for them. This question leads me to another depending upon the development stage comment. they find themselves in. Then I would mention the general feature of challenges So, let me turn now to the challenges they are facing, because this is the area these nations are now facing. Earlier, I men- where they wish to have substantial inputs tioned the diversity in the region. But, they . .e..e ..o...e..e. ............................ ................................... 95 have also many common elements. Among important common feature of dealing with the top-most countries, for example, com- the sensitive questions of human resources mon challenges are; such as the mobility of labor, while the Asian format of cooperation will not likely (1) Infrastructural Bottleneck Problems include such items. (2) Accelerating Enterprise Reform (3) Continuing Financial Sector Reform In Asia, in my view, the force that (4) Stepping up Environmental Protec- differentiates each country tends to be tion stronger than that which unifies them. In (5) Supporting open global Trade and other words, I may say that the diversity of Investment Systems Asian nations may not allow them to fol- low the Occidental model of regional coop- In order to save time, I will not go eration involving harmonization of sensi- into the case of less developed countries in tive issues of human resources, although the region. But, the important question they may wish to agree upon arrangements here is whether the U.S. and Japan are ready for training and other less controversial is- to make a significant contribution and if so, sues. We may also expect something regard- What is the priority area or the area of rela- ing financial resources and physical settings. tive competitive-edge for their contribution? Trade and Investment will be the most likely area of agreements. Yet, they will not exceed for a long time to come, the level of the very loose format of economic co- operation such as the ASEAN Treaty. Asian Markets have reached, how- In the earlier part of my presentation, I said ever, a level comparable to North Ameri- that the Asian countries had set up an in- can and European Markets in terms of the teresting approach in fornulating or not volume of both inter-regional trade and formulating at all a forum of cooperation investment. There is a clear need for more within the region, although they seem to concerted effort within the region, since be rethinking the matter. When I say that the entrepreneurial activities across the na- they are rethinking, I specifically mean the tional border, have reached a level as im- broad idea of AFTA touched off by the portant as inter-provincial transactions in NAFTA negotiation. any country in the region. I am not familiar with the concrete In the above context, it will be also scheme of the AFTA Plan nor well-in- interesting to hear from you about the pos- formed about where it stands now. But I sible development in the region. am wondering whether it could be possible for the Asian nations to agree upon such Within the limited time allowed, I a scheme, if it were to be based on any tried to sum up the possible items for your Occidental model. discussion, in search for the point of com- mon concern, which may be also of much You may wish to argue that the relevance to my official job. I hope that my North American approach and European presentation has not deviated too much approach are not the same. But, they have from the issues of interests to you. a conspicuous difference vis-5-vis the Asian approach in that the former involves an Thank you for your kind attention 96 .*-------------- . *. . . o. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. *.*. PERSONAL HISTORY.................. Akira lida, Exeutive Vice --esident EXPERIENCE: March 1963 Diplome Tokyo University, Faculty of Law April 1963 Banking Bureau, Ministry of Finance (MOF) August 1972 Tax Bureau, MOF (Income Taxation and Tax Treaties) July 1975 Economic Planning Agency (Short-term Economic Forecast) June 1978 Technical Assistant to the Chairman of WP3/EPC/OECD June 1980 Technical Counselor, Prime Minister's Cabinet (Prime Minister Suzuki) June 1982 Assistant Vice-Minister for International Affairs, MOF June 1983 Financial Counselor, Japanese Permanent Delegation to OECD (Chainnan, CMIT/CMF Joint Group on Renovation of OECD Code of Liberalization in Financial Areas) June 1986 Director, Control Division, Banking Inspection Department MOF June 1987 Director, Tokyo Office, World Bank IIBRD, IDA) June 1989 Deputy Director-General, Customs and Tariff Bureau, MOF July 1990 Executive Director, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) July 1992 Executive Vice President, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) .......................... ............................................................0 97 ANNEXES * * . * * * * * * . . ........ ....... .. ... . . ........... . . MIGA BUSINESS PROFILE I COUNTRY MEMBERSHIP Number of Countries 160>< 140 100 80 60 20 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Fiscal Year Members m In Process of Joining MIGA is an independent agency of the World Bank Group, with its own country membership and capital base. However, World Bank membership is a prerequisite for MIGA membership; other membership requirements include signature and ratification of the MIGA Convention, and payment of a capital subscription. MIGA has witnessed a steady increase in country membership from 52 mem- bers in FY89 to 134 (19 industrialized and 115 developing) countries in FY96. Six new countries completed their membership requirements in FY96: Algeria, Armenia, Colombia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and the Republic of Yemen. An additional 21 coun- tries are in the process of fulfilling membership requirements (See Appendix for mem- bers as of September 1, 1996). II GUARANTEE ACTIVITIES FiscalYear 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Total Number of Guarantees 4 11 21 27 38 54 68 223 Max. Aggregate Liability (US$million) 132 59 313 374 372 672 862 2,784 Estimated FDI Facilitated (US$billion) 1.0 0.9 1.0 1.9 1.3 2.5 6.6 15.2 Estimated Number of Jobs Created 2,700 3,680 2,920 1,720 7,800 8,800 7,200 34,820 MIGA experienced record growth in its investment guarantee business in FY96: in the number of guarantee contracts issued, amount of coverage underwritten, and foreign investment facilitated. Overall, the Agency's 223 guarantee contracts have covered investments by investors from 24 member countries to 41 developing and transition economies around the world. One measure of MIGAs development impact is that the total estimated foreign direct investment facilitated ($15.2 billion) by its insured projects is about seven times the amount of its outstanding contingent liabilities ($2.3 bil- lion) as of FY96. MIGA insured projects in many sectors during the year, including satellite tele- communications facilities in Uganda and Tanzania, a fruit juice and concentrate plant in Russia, soft drink bottling facilities in Brazil, Kazakstan and the Kyrgyz Republic, and power plants in Argentina, China, Jamaica and Nepal. so............. * ......a * ****.a.. **********.*OSS.@O 0 a 0 0 0 0 1201 III MAXIMUM CONTINGENT LIA3LITY OUTSTANDING In millions of US$ 2,500 2,276 2,000 1,500 0 1,000 500 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Fiscal Year The strong demand for MIGA's guarantee services is illustrated by the Agency's maximum contingent liability which has increased from $132 million in FY90 to $2.3 billion in FY96. MIGA's Board of Directors increased the Agency's allowable risk-to-assets ratio-from 1.5 to 2.5 in FY94 and, further, to 3.5 in FY96. At the end of FY96, MIGA's capital and reserves were $1.1 billion, which allows the Agency to issue up to $3.9 billion in coverage (i.e., $1.6 billion of additional coverage for projects beyond its current expo- sure). The continuing demand from investors for MIGA's guarantees has prompted the Agency to seek an increase in its authorized capital to allow further expansion of its business. 1 02........ . .. .. .o. .. .. . . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .o. . .... IV PREMIUM INCOME In millions of US$ 25,, 20- 15. 1 0 5 3 0 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Fiscal Year Consonant with the growth in its guarantee business from FY90 to FY96, MIGA's earned income from premiums and commitment fees rose from less than $1 million in FY90 to $21.9 million in FY96, which was an increase of $7.5 million over FY95. 0 O.@ @.............eg o........ *..............*...................... o *.a........ 103 v OUTSTANDING PORTFOLIO BY SECTOR (MANmmuM CONTINGENT LIABILITY) 19921 Financina Service Tourism 1% Services Agribusiness 30% 14% Total Manufacturing Infrastructure US$421million 12% 1% 1996, andSsectoreforveffective risk management. ThefFinancial Agribusiness I1% Manufacturing 27% Oil & Gas ~Infrastructure Toa= 3 % 12% US$2,276million Since its creation MIGA has attempted to diversify its portfolio broadly by country and sector for effective risk management. The financial sector accounts for about one- third of the portfolio, currently reduced from a higher percentage, while manufacturing and infrastructure have been the fastest-growing sectors. VI (A) OUTSTANDING PORTFOLIO BY HOST REGION (MAXIMUM CONTINGENT LIABILITY) Europe & 1992 Central Asia 2aa ! 2 ~~~~~Asia 35% Latin America & the Caribbean 36%Toa= \t . t l t fi ~~~US$421 million Africa i% 1996 1 E7urope & Middle East Central Asia 3% Asia 250/ Latin America & the Caribbean Total= 38% US$2,276million Africa 8% MIGA-insured projects in Latin America and the Caribbean constitute the high- est portion of the portfolio, reflecting the continued interest of investors in this region. Increasing opportunities in Africa and the Middle East have contributed to relative growth of MIGA's portfolio in these regions. * . . . . . . .. ......* .a . . . . . . . . . .. . . . a . S S * a S S S 5105 VI (B) OUTSTANDING PORTFOLIO BY HOST REGION (NUMBER OF CONTRACTS ISSUED) Europe & 1992 Central Asia Asia Latin America & the Caribbean 32% 34 contracts Africa 9% Europe& 9 Central Asia 24% Middle East & the Caribbean 27% 36% ~17t3 c=ontracts~' Africa 12% The proportion of MIGA contracts issued for investments in Latin America and the Caribbean partially reflects the more complex infrastructure power projects cov- ered by the Agency involving multiple equity investors and commercial banks. In Africa and Asia, MIGA has tended to insure small and medium-size agribusiness, manufactur- ing, and mining investments. VII OUTSTANDING PORTFOLIO BY INVESTOR COUNTRY (MAXIMUM CONTINGENT LIABILITY) |19921 Singapore Canada USA 3% 57% Netherlands Japan 5% Luxembourg France 0.5% Switzerand Norway 10 8% 3% 1 1996 1o*Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, United Kingdom |Finland, Korea, Spain, Uruguay 11% _ _ Others'*i,Urga 11 %~~~~~~~~~~~~~~1 USA 36Sut frc () Netherlands 20% Japan 5% Luxembourg 3% Swit ze a dFaae(2,Norway (2), 6% South Africa (2), Italy (1), Turkey (1), Sweden (1) Germany (2) 3% 8% In addition to the broader distribution of its portfolio by host country, MIGA has benefited from a wider spread of investor countries as well. The majority share of U.S.- insured investments has decreased significantly as investors from countries such as the Netherlands and the United Kingdom increasingly utilized MIGA's services. In a special effort to promote investments between developing countries, in FY96 MIGA insured investors from Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Turkey, and Uruguay for their invest- ments in other developing countries. ...................... ....................................a.................. o o o o 107 VIII CUMULATIVE PRELIMINARY APPLICATIONS Number of Applications 3,000 - 2,892 2,500- 2,000 - 1 . .6. 2_9 2 1,500- 1,00064 500 0 1989 11990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1 995 1996 Fiscal Year MIGA has received almost 2,900 Preliminary Applications for Guarantee, averag- ing approximately 50 per month in the past two years. This represents a dramatic in- crease from only 220 applications as of FY90. Demand for political risk insurance has been fueled by many favorable investment opportunities in developing and transitional economies. These opportunities, in turn, arise from recent economic reforms and in- creasing privatization of these economies. This strong pipeline of applications bodes well for the Agency's future growth. 1 08 . 0. *........................................ 00 00 00 0 * Ix ACTIVE PRELIMINARY APPLICATIONS BY HOST REGION Number of Applications 300 l 250 1 g 200 150 :- : -.-- 100 50 0 Africa Latin America Europe Asia and and and Middle East the Caribbean Central Asia The regional distribution of Preliminary Applications for Guarantee received by MIGA is well-diversified as of FY96. Economic reforms and privatization movements in the transition economies of Europe and Central Asia and the increasing shift towards more liberal, open economies in Asia have attracted foreign investor interest in these regions. This is reflected in the significant increase of demand for MIGA guarantees for investments in these markets over the past five years. ...................... ........................................a............ 0 00 0 109 x REVENUE AND ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS In millions of US$ TOTAL REVENUE 35 j XC X 30 25 20 10 5 0 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Fiscal Year TOTAL ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS Percent (AS A PERCENT OF TOTAL REVENUE) 100 80 60 40 20 0 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Fiscal Year MIGA's revenues have steadily improved based largely on increases in earned pre- miums. However, due to tight management control of administrative costs, MIGA's costs as a percentage of total revenue have significantly declined. In its seven years of opera- tions, MIGA has not yet suffered a claims loss. MIGA's total administrative expenses of $10.3 million in FY96 constitute a small fraction of the budgets of multilateral development banks. Yet, with its small staff of 70 MIGA issued $862 million in coverage in FY96 which facilitated $6.6 billion of foreign direct investment, a ratio in excess of 7:1 (See page 4). 1110 . . . . . . . S S S S S S S S 5 5 5 5 * 5 5 * 0 S * S * 5 5 5 5 5 * 5 5 5 a 5 S XI (A) EFFICIENCY AND PROFITABILITY (ADMINISTRATiVE COSTS AND NET INCOME) In thousands of US$ 300 * Administrative Expenses per Staff Member 250 Net Income per Staff Member 200 100 50 0 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Fiscal Year Since FY92, MIGA's net income per staff member has steadily improved as Man- agement carefully controlled its expenses through a period of rapid growth. MIGA's profitability, measured by net income before provisioning as a percentage of paid-in capital, has recorded similar improvement. Although direct performance comparisons with private and national insurers is not feasible (due to the absence of appropriate data), MIGA has clearly achieved a sharp improvement in performance. ..................................... ............................. 111 XI (B) EFFICIENCY AND PROFITABILITY (RETURN ON ASSETS EMPLOYED) Percent 12 10 Return on Assets Eml Return on Total Assets 8 (A) 6 4 2 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Fiscal Year A) Return on Total Assets is the ratio of net income before provisioning to total assets (net of callable capital-subscribed capital not actually paid in-wvhich serves as a cushion for claims). B) Return on Assets Employed is the ratio of net income before provisioning to total assets minuis promis- sory notes paid as a part of capital subscription (i.e., not encashed and non-interest bearing, which also serves as a cushion for claims). Return on Assets (ROA) is commonly used as a measure of business performance. In MIGA's case, 80 percent of its initial assets were not paid in and 10 percent were in the form of promissory notes which do not accrue interest. Hence, it would be inappro- priate to evaluate business performance on the basis of total assets as 90 percent of MIGA's initial capital is not currently employed. However, measured by the rate of return on the basis of total assets employed, MIGA's business performance has pro- gressed sharply since FY92 as compared to ROA. (For further information, see Financial Statements in the Annual Report.) 112 o XII TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE ACTIITIES: FY92-96 (CUMULATIVE NUMBER OF ACTIVITIES) Number of Activities 100 80 60 40 20 0 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Fiscal Year Total Activities --- IPA Capacity Building Promotion Activities - - Information Dissemination MIGA's current program of technical assistance includes three major categories of investment promotion activities in member countries: (1) direct support of investment promotion activities; (2) dissemination of information on investment opportunities, busi- ness operating conditions, and business partners; and (3) strengthening of countries' insti- tutional capacity to successfully plan, execute, and follow-up investment promotion pro- grams and activities.** More than half of the activities executed since FY92 have been in Africa. While MIGA continues to assist countries in executing traditional investment pro- motion activities such as conferences and missions, increasing emphasis is placed on infor- mation dissemination and IPA capacity-building activities. MIGA's technical assistance activities are undertaken on a cost-recovery basis. In FYs 92-93, MIGA also provided policy advisory services as part of its technical assistance program. However, in FY94, MIGA management decided to focus its technical assistance activities on investment promotion and to leave policy advisory activities to the World Bank, IFC, and FIAS. .o..oo..... 50. Se........................ ........................................ 113 XIII INCREASE IN TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AcnvwiEs: FY92-96 (CUmuRATIVE NuMvBER OF DiEcr BiNEaARY CouNTmxS) Number of Countries 100 80 7 60 40 32 20 '- 0 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Fiscal Year Ninety developing countries have benefited directly from MIGA's technical assis- tance activities since the program was reoriented in FY94 to focus exclusively on invest- ment promotion. Whenever feasible, MIGA now organizes its activities on a multi-country basis in order to maximize the number of beneficiary countries. MIGA's new electronic tools for dissemination of information on investment opportunities, business operating conditions, and business partners benefit virtually all developing countries simultaneously, but indirectly. The figures in Chart XIII do not include those countries that have benefited indi- rectly from such information dissemination activities. 114...................................oo oo oo o & o o..o.... XIV IPAnet A I = IPfnetUIsitor's Hom Page IPAnet can be accessed at: http:i/- w,.ipanet.net (Screen photo of IPAnet Visitor's Home Page Version 13 MIGA has launched a global, Internet-based investment marketplace, dubbed IPAnet, to promote investment into emerging markets. Employing the concept of a spe- cialized electronic information shopping mall, IPAnet is a global "one-stop center" pro- viding easy desktop access to investmnent opportunities, sources of finance, laws and regulations governing investments, and lists of important "who's who" in various coun- tries. Along with electronic stores, IPAnet contains investment databases on over 1 00 coun- tries, searchable directories of "key players" in international investment, listings of con- ferences and other events, matchmaker templates, targeted communications, e-mail fil- ters, intelligence gathering, and business news. These and other unique features are all designed to link international investors and promoters of investment, world wide, to make global investment activity mnore efficient. As of August 1996, users in over 96 countries are accessing information through IPAnet. . ~ i ? itptlir 0; 0 i **0000000000**0*0a APPENDIX JuN 5,1997 INDUSTRIALIZED-19 Beigiu-m, G ...- er m'any" Luebo-u-g Swde Canada Greece Netherlands Switzerland Denmark Ireland Norway United Kinigdom Finland Italy Portugal United States France Japan Spain DEVELOPING-122 AFRICA Uganda Morocco Turkmenistan Angola Zambia Oman Ukraine Benin Zimbabwe Qatar Uzbekistan Botswana Saudi Arabia Burkina Faso ASIA/PACIFIC Tunisia LATIN AMERICA! Cameroon Bangladesh United Arab Emirates CARIBBEAN Cape Verde China Yemen, Republic of Argentina Congo, Democratic Fiji Bahamas, The Republic of India EUROPE/ Barbados Congo, Republic of Indonesia CENTRAL ASIA Belize C6te dIlvoire Korea, Republic of Albania Bolivia Equatorial Guinea Malaysia Armenia Brazil Eritrea Micronesia, Fed. Azerbaij an Chile Ethiopia States of Belarus Colombia Gambia, The Nepal Bosnia-Herzegovina, Costa Rica Ghana Pakistan Republic of Dominica Guinea Papua New Guinea Bulgaria Domninican Republic Kenya Philippines Croatia, Republic of Ecuador Lesotho Sri Lanka Cyprus El Salvador Madagascar Vanuatu Czech Republic Grenada Malawi Viet Nam Estonia Guatemala Mali Western Samoa Georgia Guyana Mauritaniia Hungary Haiti Mauritius MIDDLE EAST! Kazakstan Honduras Mozambique NORTH AFRICA Kyrgyz Republic Jamaica Namibia Algeria Lithuania Nicaragua Nigeria Bahrain Macedonia, FYR of Panama Senegal Egypt, Moldova Paraguay Seychelles Arab Republic of Poland Peru Sierra Leone Israel Romania St. Lucia South Africa Jordan Russian Federation St. Vincent and the Sudan Kuwait Slovak Republic Grenadines Swaziland Lebanon Slovenia, Trinidad & Tobago Tanzania Libya Republic of Uruguay Togo Malta Turkey Venezuela INDUSTRLALIZED-2 Australia Austria DEVELOPING-17 AFRICA ASIA/PACIFIC EUROPE! LATIN AMERICA/ Burundi Camnbodia CENTRAL ASIA CARIBBEAN Chad Mongolia Latvia St. Kitts & Nevis Gabon Singapore Tajikistan Surinamne Guinea-Bissau Solomon Islands Yugoslavia, Federal Niger Thailand Republic of Rwanda MIDDLE EAST! NORTH AFRICA Syrian Arab Republic Contact MIGA for informastion about co-untries not listed (Printed on recycled paper) IP~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I [IF q F~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~3