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Agency Strategic Goal:

Broad based economic growth and agricultural

development encouraged.

Indicators:

(a) Trade of goods and services; (b) average annual

growth rate of foreign direct investment; (c) average

annual growth rate; (d) Economic Freedom Index.

Source(s):

World Development Indicators (Tables 4.7, 5.2); Heritage

Foundation Annual Surveys of Economic Freedom; USAID

calculations.

Performance Goal 4:

Openness and reliance on

YEAR

Base

1999

private markets increased.

Percentage of countries with improved

AFR

PLN

50%

economic freedom scores.

ACT

47%

ANE

PLN

80%

ACT

80%

LAC

PLN

75%

ACT

64%

ENI

PLN

50%

ACT

45%

Percentage of countries with positive real

AFR

PLN

75%

growth in exports and imports (AFR and ENI) or

average annual growth in exports and imports

ACT

36%

(ANE and LAC).

ANE

PLN

8%

ACT

9.5%

LAC

PLN

6%

ACT

7%

ENI

PLN

75%

ACT

n/a

Percentage of countries in which direct

AFR

PLN

80%

foreign investment clearly increases.

ACT

62%

ANE

PLN

95%

ACT

92%

LAC

PLN

95%

ACT

92%

ENI

PLN

75%

ACT

n/a

Comment:

The base represents the three year period from 1995 1997.

The

benchmark for 1999 represents the score for the three year period ending in

1999.