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South Asia

In FY20, IFC provided about $2.7 billion in long-term investments in South Asia, including $1.4 billion mobilized from other investors. Our clients provided 25.8 million loans to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises, totaling about $60 billion. Our clients cared for 20.5 million patients.


Project Financing and Portfolio, by Region

South Asia
$ millions, for the year ending June 30 FY20
Long-term investment commitments 1,314
Loans 1,150
Equity 163
Guarantees and risk management 0
Core mobilization1 1,376
Total commitments 2,690
Portfolio Exposure2 for IFC’s account 9,876
Committed portfolio for loan syndications3 650
Total Portfolio Exposure 10,526

 

  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, CIPs, URPs, MCPP Loans. Amounts include regional shares of investments that are officially classified as global projects.

Development Outcome Reach

South Asia Portfolio
  CY18 CY19
MSME loans (# of loans)1,2 21,637,725 25,806,018
MSME loans (amount in $ millions)1,2 49,935 60,460
Power generation (millions of people) 19.5 11.5
Water distribution (millions of people) 0.0 0.0
Gas distribution (millions of people) 1.1 0.0
Power distribution (millions of people) 0.0 0.0
Phone connections (millions of people) 127.4 125.5
Farmers reached 1,461,025 967,999
Patients served 25,961,532 20,470,700
Students reached 39,994 63,990
Employment 567,230 387,177
Domestic purchase of goods and services ($ millions) 5,138 5,171
Payments to governments ($ millions) 2,570 3,317

 

  1. Portfolio reach figures represent the micro, small, and medium enterprise outstanding loan portfolio of IFC’s financial institution clients with MSME-oriented finance.
  2. Pakistan and Afghanistan are included in South Asia region in CY19 portfolio data.

Largest Country Exposures1

South Asia Portfolio Exposure2 ($ millions)
Rank within Region Country FY19 FY20
1 India 8,045 6,947
2 Pakistan 1,146 1,075
3 Bangladesh 1,159 1,069


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.