This page features a chapter on the International Finance Corporation by Jonas Haralz, former World Bank Executive Director for the Nordic Countries.
Full document [pdf]
Part 1: A Child is Born
Part 2: Early Years, 1956-69
Part 3: Emphasis on Development, the 1970s
Part 4: Profitability as a Development Objective, 1981-94
Part 1: A Child is Born [pdf]
- Ancestry
- Traits of Character
Part 2: Early Years, 1956-69 [pdf]
- Faltering Steps, 1956-61
- A New Beginning, 1961-62
- An Industrial Initiative, 1963-65
- The IFC in the 1960s: An Overview
Part 3: Emphasis on Development, the 1970s [pdf]
- The Transfer of the DFC Department
- A Review of Industrial Policies
- The Recommendations of the Pearson Commission
- The Issue of Protection
- Development Orientation
- Equity Investment and Lending
- Foreign and Domestic Partnership
- Promotional Activities
- The Attitude toward Publicly Owned Enterprises
- Financial Aspects
- A Dual Strategy
- IFC Operations in the 1970s
- The Reorientation: An Overview
Part 4: Profitability as a Development Objective, 1981-94 [pdf]
- IFC in the Early 1980s
- Market Borrowing
- A Mid-Term Course Correction
- Contributing to Development
- Essentiality
- IFC's Operations, 1985-94
- The International Finance Corporation, 1984-1993
- First World, Third World
