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Ecuador

A nation of 18.3 million from the Galapagos to the Amazon, backed by a $5 billion IMF programme and $1.55 billion of new World Bank finance in 2026.

  • 18.3mCitizens, 2025
  • $5BIMF programme, 2024
  • $1.55BWorld Bank finance, 2026

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The Perfect EcuadorDesign Studio

Where Ecuadorians and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in.

Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a Co-designer of Perfect Ecuador: one of a community of selfless people, at home and abroad, building a nation where every citizen has a decent life.

Become a Co-designer

Design Studio · Work with Perfect Nations

One mission. Three depths.

Every mandate makes the same four moves for Ecuador. What changes is how deep we go, and how far the work travels toward market.

  1. 01Identify the assets
  2. 02Estimate Perfect Capita
  3. 03Co-design the capital architecture
  4. 04Launch the instruments and structures
  1. Mandate 01

    The Nation Briefing

    3 hours

    A private session for the people who decide.

    1. 01Identify the assetsThe five sovereign assets on this page, walked through.
    2. 02Estimate Perfect CapitaCoverage of 34.1 and the Gap, explained.
    3. 03Co-design the capital architectureThe instruments that could close the Gap, shortlisted.
    4. 04Launch the instrumentsThe path to market, outlined.
    You leave withThe gap, named and sized
    Request a Nation Briefing
  2. Mandate 02

    The Blueprint Lab

    3 days

    Your team and ours, working the blueprint together.

    1. 01Identify the assetsThe ledger tested against your ministries’ own data.
    2. 02Estimate Perfect CapitaEach of the seven standards costed in Ecuadorian prices.
    3. 03Co-design the capital architectureOne financing structure, drawn with your team.
    4. 04Launch the instrumentsA term sheet and the partners to approach.
    You leave withThe structure, drawn
    Plan a Blueprint Lab
  3. Mandate 03

    The Sovereign Mandate

    End to end

    Led personally by the President and CEO.

    1. 01Identify the assetsA full sovereign asset ledger, valued and verified.
    2. 02Estimate Perfect CapitaPerfect Capita set and agreed with government, with a monitoring plan.
    3. 03Co-design the capital architectureThe full structure: legal form, credit enhancement, guarantees and pricing.
    4. 04Launch the instrumentsTaken to investors and development partners, through to close.
    You leave withA structure ready for market
    Discuss a Sovereign Mandate

For the Government of Ecuador, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins.

Ecuador in BloomNation Portrait · The Gallery
Perfect Nations™ · Letters to the NationsEcuador

Dear Ecuador,

Yellow, blue and red, with the condor and Chimborazo on your arms. Ninety-five in every hundred of you cook with clean fuel, and four-fifths of your energy comes from renewable sources.

“Your rivers already power the nation. Now let them power every Ecuadorian child to a confident reader.”

Yours in design,Preeti SinhaPresident and CEO, Perfect Nations Read the full letter

Dispatches

Letters from the markets.

Short analyses of the instruments and investments shaping Ecuador, written for ministers, investors and citizens by Preeti Sinha and by Paola Andrade, Nation Steward of Ecuador.

All dispatches
Perfect Nations™ · State of NationsForthcoming

The first dispatch on Ecuador is in preparation.

Dispatches appear here as soon as they are published.

Design Studio · Writings

Write Perfect Ecuador into being.

An essay, an article or a true story of up to 1,500 words: your vision of Perfect Ecuador and the economic solutions to achieve it. Original and unpublished, published with your name and your permission.

Sovereign Assets

Five assets no balance sheet counts.

Each is owned today, earns today, and can lift Ecuador closer to Perfect Capita.

  • 01

    The People

    18.3mCitizens, 2025

    63 in every hundred live in towns and cities; the rest live on the land they farm and fish.

  • 02

    The Land

    20.3%Of land in farms and pasture

    The land that feeds the nation, and the first place a citizen dividend can be earned.

  • 03

    The Forest

    49.7%Of land under forest

    Standing forest holds the water, soil and carbon that the world will pay to keep.

  • 04

    The Water

    24,821 m³Renewable fresh water per person

    Enough to supply every home, once it is stored, treated and piped.

  • 05

    The Power

    80.9%Of energy from renewables, 2021

    Sun, wind, water and biomass already carry part of the load; the rest is the opportunity.

What each asset is worth, and how far it can carry Ecuador toward Perfect Capita, is the question our research and our guests take up below.

Sovereign Assets

Design Studio · Perfect Capita

The Ecuador wheel: held at 34.1 by education

Ecuador: coverage of the seven basic living standardsFOOD68.9WATER69.9SHELTER49.3ENERGY95EDUCATION34.1HEALTH78LIVELIHOOD69.9COVERAGE34.1OF 100 · SET BY EDUCATION
  • To setPerfect CapitaThe yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards, set with Ecuador in its own prices.
  • To setThe price of Perfect EcuadorPerfect Capita times the population: the national bill, each year.
  • 34.1CoverageOut of 100, set by education, the standard Ecuador provides least.
  • 66%The GapOf Ecuadorian children could not read a simple text by the end of primary school in 2019.

The Living LineThe poverty line measures income. The Living Line measures a life: food, water, shelter, energy, education, health and livelihood. Perfect Capita is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards. Coverage scores each standard strictly out of 100, and a nation is held at its weakest: Ecuador at 34.1, by education, with shelter at 49.3 and food at 68.9 next.

Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with Ecuador. Figures marked dated rest on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. The strict measures

Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water: safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking. Education: the lower of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion. Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group. Each figure links to its source.

The Research · Capital Architecture

Ecuador is financing reform and local infrastructure at once. Next, every child reading by ten.

The record in figures

  • $5BExtended Fund Facility: About $3.7 billion disbursed; about $394 million released in April 2026IMF, 2026
  • $800MSubnational infrastructure finance: Through Banco de Desarrollo del EcuadorWorld Bank, 2026
  • $750MReforms for investment and jobs: IBRD loanWorld Bank, 2026

The register

  • MultilateralActiveExtended Fund FacilityApproved May 2024, augmented July 2025 · Fifth review 22 April 2026$5B

    About $3.7 billion disbursed; about $394 million released in April 2026

    Growth of 2.5 percent is projected for 2026.

    International Monetary Fund

    Source
  • MultilateralActiveSubnational infrastructure financeApproved September 2026 · Multiphase programme$800M

    Through Banco de Desarrollo del Ecuador

    Finances energy, transport, housing and disaster-risk projects for local governments.

    World Bank

    Source
  • MultilateralActiveReforms for investment and jobsApproved July 2026 · Budget support$750M

    IBRD loan

    Makes public spending more efficient, improves social transfers and manages fiscal risks.

    World Bank

    Source

The Ecuador Newswire

State of Nations
Paola Andrade, Nation Steward of Ecuador

Paola AndradeNation Steward of Ecuador · SI ResearcherEvery change is sourced and reviewed before it is published.

Design Studio · Enterprises

Already working in Ecuador.

Suggest an enterprise
  • In preparation

    The enterprises building Perfect Ecuador

    The Stewards are verifying the companies and social enterprises already delivering the seven basic living standards in Ecuador. Suggest one to include.

    Suggest an enterprise

Design Studio · Voices of Ecuador

Launching soon

The people already
building it.

The question every guest answers
“What does Ecuador already own, and how could it pay for a decent life for every citizen?”

We are looking for the people with real stories from Ecuador: the leaders who built something that works, and the keepers of local knowledge who know how their communities live, cope and thrive.

The Ecuador Design Studio is open

Design Perfect Ecuador with us.

Share your vision, suggest a guest, or write to us. Every message receives a personal reply.

Sources
  1. World Bank, World Development Indicators: population 2025, urban share, agricultural and forest land, renewable fresh water per person and renewable energy share, read 30 October 2026.
  2. Strict Perfect Capita inputs: FAO food insecurity, WHO/UNICEF water and sanitation, World Bank clean cooking, learning poverty and poverty lines, UNESCO completion and the WHO service coverage index (2023, via Our World in Data).
  3. International Monetary Fund and World Bank press releases for each register line, as linked.
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