The performance of generated 2.3 million jobs in 2023, 2 million with the use of resources from the Worker Support Fund (FAT), the bank’s main source of funding.
The data appears in the first edition of the annual employment report that will release it in the first half of this year.
According to the document, companies supported directly by BNDES were responsible for 1.6 million of these jobs, of which 1.3 million through FAT resources.
In addition, the project supply chain generated another 700,000 job, of which 620,000 via the worker’s fund.
Of the total impacted jobs, about 20% occurred in the North, Northeast and Midwest. The construction sectors and machines and equipment were responsible for about 200 thousand and 50 thousand jobs, respectively.
The Annual Employment Report is the result of the BNDES-Working Forum, created in 2023 by the BNDES President ,.
The FAT, linked to the Labor Folder, is intended for the cost of unemployment insurance and salary allowance and the financing of economic development programs.
“Fat was created to generate employment. This is its main product and this is one of BNDES’s main deliveries to society. Under the guidance of President Lula, BNDES is today a large engine of job generation in the country. We are talking about quality employment, with a formal contract and labor rights, and for companies of all sizes. To get an idea, one third of these 2.3 million employment is generated in micro, small and medium -sized companies. BNDES makes the economy spin. Companies invest and new job openings are open, “says Mercadante.
It also mentions the increase in the percentage of jobs generated in industry and infrastructure.
“In 2023, 34% of the jobs generated by BNDES support were in the industry, against 26% in 2019. In infrastructure, it almost doubled. We went from 10% to 18% of the jobs generated in this sector, in the same period,” he says.
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