Brazil - São Paulo Inclusive Jobs Development Policy Loan Project

Overview & Synopsis

The development objective of the São Paulo Inclusive Jobs DPL for Brazil is to enhance the business environment and expand inclusive access to jobs in the State of São Paulo through policy and institutional reforms. The operation supports a unified, risk-based digital platform for firm registration and licensing to simplify and accelerate business entry statewide, and a standardized, centralized system for processing tax and non-tax collections to reduce compliance costs and improve revenue administration. It strengthens regulatory governance by increasing autonomy, fiscal independence, and oversight of key state regulatory agencies, and it reinforces the institutional framework for public-private partnerships and concessions by reforming the organizational structure and processes of the State Secretariat for Partnerships and Investments to mobilize private capital in infrastructure. The program improves transparency in the business environment by mandating public disclosure of tax benefits granted to legal entities, and it promotes sustainable finance by establishing the Green Investment Seal as an official, taxonomy-aligned certification framework for environmentally sound financial operations. To increase inclusive access to employment, it creates the Trampolim digital platform that integrates vacancies, training, guidance, and matching services from public and private providers, and it introduces the SuperAção program to link social assistance with skills development and labor market access through intensive, family-centered case management, with a Protect module that prioritizes women’s access to temporary income support conditional on barrier-reducing actions. By the closing period, the reforms are expected to increase the share of municipalities with average business registration time below the national average from 20 to 40 percent, raise the share of state non-tax revenue collected through the centralized platform from 12.9 to 50 percent, and achieve implementation of 73 percent of actions in regulatory agendas. They are also expected to enable R$80 billion in private investment through PPPs and concessions, publicly disclose 90 percent of tax benefit records, and evaluate at least three financial operations under the Green Investment Seal. On inclusive jobs, the Trampolim platform is expected to deliver 80,000 services and bring 25,000 users to new digitally enabled services, including 13,000 women and 3,250 youth. The SuperAção program is expected to support 42,000 economic inclusion beneficiaries, including 25,200 women and 6,720 youth, with at least 60 percent of female beneficiaries receiving the Protect-module cash transfer. Together, these results will improve regulatory coherence, reduce the cost of doing business, mobilize private investment, and expand access to more and better jobs for vulnerable groups.