Peru: Metro Lima Line 2
This series showcases how the Multilateral Development Banks’ collaboration supports the development and implementation of infrastructure investment. This support comes in the form of public sector loans, private sector finance, sector and transaction advice, guarantees, and output-based aid.
The Lima Metro Line 2 project is one of the largest infrastructure projects ever done in Peru. It aims to ease traffic congestion in Peru’s capital, a city close to 10 million inhabitants, responsible for 32 percent of the country’s population and 45 percent of its GDP. Strong economic growth over the last decade, rising incomes and a limited public transport network resulted in an almost 30 percent rise in car ownership in the city. The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) have together provided over a billion dollars for the project through innovative project financing mechanisms.
