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Middle East & North Africa

In FY20, we invested about $1.0 billion in the Middle East and North Africa , including $398 million mobilized from other investors. Our clients cared for 4.6 million patients and reached about 16 million people with phone connections.

 

Project Financing and Portfolio, by Region

Middle East & North Africa
$ millions, for the year ending June 30 FY20
Long-term investment commitments 617
Loans 495
Equity 117
Guarantees and risk management 5
Core mobilization1 398
Total commitments 1,014
Portfolio Exposure2 for IFC’s account 3,852
Committed portfolio for loan syndications3 1,216
Total Portfolio Exposure 5,068

 

  1. Including Loan Syndications (B-Loans, Parallel Loans, and MCPP Loans), IFC Initiatives, AMC Funds, Advisory Mobilization, as applicable for this region.
  2. Portfolio exposure is defined as the sum of the (i) committed exposure for IFC’s debt investments, (ii) fair market value of IFC’s equity investments, and (iii) total undisbursed equity commitments.
  3. Including B-Loans, ALPs, Agented Parallel Loans, URPs, MCPP Loans. Amounts include regional shares of investments that are officially classified as global projects.

Development Outcome Reach

Middle East & North Africa Portfolio
  CY18 CY19
MSME loans (# of loans)1 1,084,632 822,471
MSME loans (amount in $ millions)1 9,400 5,044
Power generation (millions of people) 2.9 0.3
Water distribution (millions of people) 0.0 0.0
Power distribution (millions of people) 0.5 0.6
Phone connections (millions of people) 17.0 16.0
Farmers reached 1,012,527 12,265
Patients served 4,468,523 4,558,124
Students reached 8,327 7,803
Employment 107,495 109,676
Domestic purchase of goods and services ($ millions) 1,439 1,127
Payments to governments ($ millions) 941 802

 

  1. Portfolio reach figures represent the micro, small, and medium enterprise outstanding loan portfolio of IFC’s financial institution clients with MSME-oriented finance.

Largest Country Exposures1

Middle East & North Africa Portfolio Exposure2 ($ millions)
Rank within Region Country FY19 FY20
1 Egypt, Arab Republic of 1,236 1,474
2 Jordan 918 994
3 Morocco 182 226


Based on IFC's account, as of June 30


  1. Excludes individual country shares of regional and global projects.
  2. Portfolio exposure is defined as the sum of the (i) committed exposure for IFC’s debt investments, (ii) fair market value of IFC’s equity investments, and (iii) total undisbursed equity commitments.