LatinFinance - September/October 2017 - 29

When I became the governor of
Quintana Roo in September 2016,
my administration's goal was clear:
to grow our state sustainably.

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Carlos Joaquín González
Gobernador del Estado de Quintana Roo

Quintana Roo:
A new wave of sustainable growth

ur first task was to draft the 2016-22 State Development Plan (http://qroo.gob.mx/ped-2016-2022). It's designed
to diversify the economy, boost tourism and create opportunities for business. It also aims to strengthen legal stability and
security, modernize the government and state services to provide increasingly easier and reliable access to them, reduce
poverty and inequality, protect civil liberties, and develop urban areas in an orderly and environmentally sustainable way.
To do all of this, we created a new institutional and policy
framework. Now we are setting up the Agency for Strategic
Projects, or AGEPRO, a decentralized government agency
that will manage our state assets efficiently and transparently,
including those earmarked for transfer to the private sector.
I'm announcing the launch of AGEPRO at the 10th Summit
of Infrastructure and Sub-Sovereign Finance Summit in Mexico, organized by LatinFinance on October 5, 2017 in Playa del
Carmen, Quintana Roo.
The agency will coordinate and promote public-private
partnerships (PPP) to improve public infrastructure and services. It will do this in a way that makes sure that each public
or private initiative is in line with the goals of the State Development Plan.
AGEPRO will also help my administration in building a vision for the future of Quintana Roo.
We need a vision because the state must pursue well-struc-

tured and financially sustainable projects that do more than
just build up our infrastructure capacity. The projects must
create jobs, too. They must develop our people's talents, diversify the economy, reduce social inequality, and drum up
opportunities for local businesses, including for our entrepreneurs. In short, we need projects that will solve the challenges
faced by our state.
These are some of the steps we are taking to make Quintana Roo more attractive for investors; another is to capitalize
on our geographic advantages on Mexico's southern border,
where we have easy access to the Caribbean. We also plan
to make it easier to open businesses, and to provide the legal certainty and security that companies need to invest with
confidence.
We are working toward these goals with another in mind: to
guarantee the preservation of our natural resources. We want
to set an example to other Mexican states in environmental
conservation and preservation, so too in the strengthening of
public institutions and in social inclusion.
It's been only a year since my administration started working toward these goals, but I think there's already a reason to
cheer. Why? It's because we have demonstrated that by working together as a state we can move forward in achieving our
development goals. Together we are building a new hope for
our state, of steady and sustainable growth.

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