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2,300 enterprises with a total upgrading investment of USD 3.4 billion have benefited from this programme so far.
Total upgrading grants: USD500 million.
Increase in employment in beneficiary enterprises : 12%.

Total industry exports increased from USD 3 billion to 11 billion

Exports for beneficiary enterprises increased by 18% per year
FDI increased from USD 24 to 327.
11% of enterprises that have started exporting did not so before the upgrading programme.
8 technical support centers have been upgraded in the sectors textile, leather and food and technical support institutions upgraded and modernized.
900 enterprises have been certified with ISO 9001.
20 laboratories accredited to ISO 17025.
Capacity building in the area of upgrading has been provided for more than 500 experts.

After the end of the Multifibre agreements in 2005 for textile and clothing, the industrial sector as a whole must continue its efforts to face the challenges for the full opening of the economic borders in 2008. That is the reason why a new phase of the upgrading programme, oriented towards innovation and regional and international technical partnership, has been implemented.

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