As a region, Central America has a greater negotiation capacity, is stronger and represents a market with greater potential, forming a block of integrated nations in order to enhance its presence, projection and competitiveness. The bank has set as one of its strategic axes, to advance to superior forms of regional integration, strengthen and integrate regional financial markets, as well as stimulating the physical and commercial processes of integration of Central America.

The competitiveness and intelligent insertion of Central America into the world economy is another of the great challenges of the region. The Bank has proposed as another of its strategic axes to contribute to the improvement of the business climate encouraging local and international investment, by backing the procedures in negotiation, ratification, implementation and sustainability of the agreements that lead to economic aperture, and encourage strategic alliances in order to stimulate investments in competitive sectors.

The statistic evidence shows that five out of every ten Central Americans still live in poverty and in many cases below the line of poverty, which must be dealt, as a matter of urgency, with timeliness and social responsibility. The Bank’s strategy is in line with this challenge, and contributes firmly in projects dedicated to eradicating poverty and improving the living conditions of the Central American people.