EVP and CEO Lars Thunell told participants at a conference in Stockholm on "Financing the Private Health Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa" that, "The private sector can play an important role...
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IFC’s recently released report, “The Business of Health in Africa” finds that the private sector is sometimes the only provider of medical services for the region’s poor...
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A new IFC report estimates that over the next decade up to $30 billion in new investment will be needed to meet Africa’s health care demand.
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A new IFC report says Africa needs substantial private investment to meet growing demand for health care. IFC has announced a strategy to help.
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IFC is supporting private investment in hospitals and clinics across the Middle East, part of a global trend that is helping reshape the region's health care sector.
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IFC will invest $12.5 million in China’s UE Envirotech Pte. Ltd., a pioneering private sector medical waste treatment company. IFC’s investment will help the company...
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A wave of new spending on hospitals and clinics is expected to relieve the burden on public health systems and dramatically reshape the sector...
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IFC is the world's largest multilateral investor in the private health sector in emerging markets as well as a key advisor of companies that support the growth of sustainable private health care...
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IFC is ramping up health care investments in the Middle East as demand grows for new hospitals and clinics. “IFC is very happy to work with strong sponsors...
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IFC is the world’s largest multilateral investor in the private health sector in emerging markets. At its recent conference on “Private Health Care in Emerging Markets—Evolution or Revolution?".
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“More active involvement of the private sector will not only support public sector activities but also contribute to more rapid reforms of China’s health system, thereby making it more equitable...
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Sub-Saharan Africa is not on track to meet the three Millennium Development Goals related to health — child mortality, maternal health, and disease.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is not on track to meet the Millennium Development Goals related to health. IFC and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are teaming up to help.
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On March 8, 2006, the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, signed an agreement with Turkey's Acibadem Health Care Group...
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One of IFC’s key strategies is to work in high-risk or frontier countries in social sectors like education and health. By partnering with Yemen’s Al-Mawarid Company...
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Rwanda is working to improve enrollment in its schools. IFC and Banque Rwandaise de Développement recently signed an agreement to help improve the business environment...
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Governments and private sectors need to work more closely together to ensure the greatest possible coverage of education...
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IFC's student loan investments are giving lower-income students a chance to complete their education, compete in the job market, and improve their lives.
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IFC, the largest multilateral investor in private education in emerging markets, is holding its biennial education conference May 14 to May 16 in Washington.
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In a country where only 20 percent of people can afford to pay for higher education, IFC is trying to meet the challenge by introducing an innovative product to Chile’s financial markets—the first private student loan program...
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IFC is preparing to launch a new Africa Schools Program, a landmark project that will increase our impact on private education in the Sub-Saharan region.
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IFC’s Board of Directors approved a landmark project that will help the Corporation significantly increase its impact by financing private schools through local banks. The three-year Africa Schools Program...
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With IFC’s help, Nigeria’s SocketWorks has grown in just five years from being a small start-up company to helping 600,000 African university students overcome the digital divide.
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EVP Lars Thunell said on a recent visit to Lebanon's SABIS School, “Education is vital to ensuring sustainable economic growth, particularly with a rapidly growing and relatively young population across the MENA region.
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IFC worked with the Sampoerna Foundation and PT Bank Internasional Indonesia to establish the country’s first private financing facility for making student loans.
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IFC is providing leadership in helping governments and private investors find new ways to collaborate in higher education.
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