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Feb 11, 2019

Report: Taking Women Entrepreneurs to the Bank in Romania

This report shows the impact of Garanti Bank Romania’s Women SME Banking Program. With support from IFC Banking on Women, the bank has loaned over €145 million to women-owned enterprises, with surveyed recipients experiencing an average real sales growth of over 5 percent per year, higher than the national average for firms in Romania.

English | 56 pages | 2019 IFC

Feb 6, 2019

Taking Women Entrepreneurs to the Bank in Romania

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Feb 6, 2019

Report: Taking Women Entrepreneurs to the Bank in Romania

This report shows the impact of Garanti Bank Romania’s Women SME Banking Program. With support from IFC, the bank has loaned over €145 million to women-owned enterprises, with surveyed recipients experiencing an average real sales growth of over 5 percent per year, higher than the national average for firms in Romania.

English | 56 pages | IFC

Feb 5, 2019

Corporate Governance Scores 2018

The third Indian Corporate Governance Scorecard presents the scores of 150 Indian companies and provides investors, regulators and stakeholders key information to help assess governance practices at the corporate level in Indian markets. The first India’s scorecard was issued in December 2016 and announced the scores of 30 companies. The second edition announced the scores of 100 companies.

Jan 25, 2019

Programme IFC sur le Climat d'Investissement OHADA 2007 2017

Evaluation de I'Impact des Reformes OHADA

Jan 25, 2019

IFC's OHADA Investment Climate Program (2007 - 2017)

Uniform Acts on Commercial Company Secured Transactions and Insolvency

Jan 25, 2019

Assessment of State of Risk Finance for MSMEs in India

This study aims to assess the state of risk capital finance to the MSME sector in India. It focuses on analyzing the forms, sources and availability of risk capital products, such as equity, venture debt and unsecured debt to the sector.

Jan 25, 2019

Financing India’s MSMEs - Estimation of Debt Requirement of MSMEs in India

This study aims to provide an assessment of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise sector finance in India

Jan 23, 2019

Blockchain: Opportunities for Private Enterprises in Emerging Markets

This report provides an examination of blockchain implementation in financial services and global supply chains; a regional analysis of blockchain developments in emerging markets; and a new focus on blockchain’s ability to facilitate low-carbon energy solutions as well as a discussion of the legal and governance issues associated with the technology’s adoption.

English | 88 pages - Second and Expanded Edition, January | IFC 2019

Jan 18, 2019

The Unseen Sector: A Report on the MSME Opportunity in South Africa

Building small businesses that contribute to the economy and create jobs is one of South Africa’s biggest development opportunities. Small enterprises employ between 50 and 60 percent of South Africa’s work force and contribute around 34 percent of GDP. However, the small business sector has been relatively stagnant over the last decade, and only 14% of the country’s small businesses are formalized, capping their job creation and economic contribution potential. “The Unseen Sector” is a joint report between the World Bank and International Finance Corporation providing an in-depth assessment of the micro, small and medium enterprise landscape in South Africa and opportunities to support the sector’s growth. The report measures the small business sector size and illustrates key barriers small businesses face in terms of access to finance, access to skills and access to markets in South Africa.

English | 124 pages | 2019 IFC

Jan 17, 2019

Crops Receipts—A New Financing Instrument For Africa

Crops Receipts—A New Financing Instrument For Africa

English | 84 pages | 2019 | IFC/FAO

Jan 16, 2019

Blockchain and Associated Legal Issues for Emerging Markets

Blockchain is an emerging technology that enables direct transactions within a ledger without need for a central authority or trusted intermediary. In emerging markets, it has the potential to re-engineer economic models and enable the creation of markets and products previously unavailable or unprofitable. But organizations considering its use must also consider the risks and how they can be managed. These include jurisdictional challenges, crypto assets, privacy and data protection, double spending, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

English | 8 pages - January- Note 63 | IFC 2019

Jan 15, 2019

日本と共に歩むIFCー開発に向けて協働するパートナー

IFCは様々な面で日本と協力関係にあります。開発に向けて協働するパートナーである日本の協力についてご紹介します。

Jan 8, 2019

Service Performance Guarantees for Public Utilities and Beyond—An Innovation with Potential to Attract Investors to Emerging Markets

Emerging market countries require substantial foreign investment for development, economic growth, and poverty alleviation. There are multiple challenges to attracting this investment, however, ranging from political and economic instability to corruption, poor security, and small market size. An additional challenge is inadequate delivery of key services like electricity and other utilities that private firms and investors rely on. Service performance guarantees are a promising approach to addressing this issue. These guarantees enable firms to purchase protection against poor or insufficient service delivery, and they may work particularly well in industrial or export processing zones by ensuring that shortfalls in service delivery are measured, reported, and addressed in a timely manner.

English | 8 pages - January - Note 62 | IFC 2019

Jan 8, 2019

Cumulative Impact Assessment Resource Page

This page includes tools, resources and presentations related to cumulative impact assessments.

Jan 2, 2019

Powered by Women

Supporting renewable energy companies to achieve gender diversity and implement gender-smart initiatives in their workplaces.

Dec 21, 2018

Field Note #11 Granting Access: Leveraging Social Payments to Expand Digital Financial Inclusion in Cote d’Ivoire

Granting Access: Leveraging Social Payments to Expand Digital Financial Inclusion in Cote d’Ivoire captures the experience of piloting digital social grant payments in Cote d’Ivoire and concludes that merely paying social benefits into a digital account is not sufficient to lead to lasting financial inclusion, but that coupled with additional activities such as financial literacy campaigns and expanded agent networks it can have a positive impact on expanding adoption of digital financial services the poorest.

English | 13pages | 2018 IFC

Dec 20, 2018

Request for Expression of Interest

IFC is issuing this request for expressions of interest to identify an implenting partner for the KKCF in Turkana County, Kenya.

Dec 19, 2018

Field Note #10 Women and Digital Financial Services in Sub-Saharan Africa: Understanding the Challenges and Harnessing the Opportunities

Women and Digital Financial Services in Sub-Saharan Africa: Understanding the Challenges and Harnessing the Opportunities also draws on several studies over the past six years and shows that there are pronounced differences in the way men and women engage financial services in Sub-Saharan Africa. The researchers recommend that providers offer simplified services for basic phones, emphasize marketing through social networks, and mimic the flexibility and social aspects of informal services to better reach women.

English | 14pages | 2018 IFC

Dec 17, 2018

IFC年次報告書 2018

Dec 17, 2018

Case Study—Packages Limited. Advancing Gender Diversity through Equal Opportunity Recruitment Practices

Packages Limited, a manufacturing company in Pakistan, conducted an employee engagement survey and revealed the need to ramp up gender diversity efforts. This case study explores the business benefits resulting from the implementation of equal opportunity recruitment practices to increase gender diversity. Between 2016 and 2017, when the practices were first introduced, and 2018, the number of female job applicants for each position doubled.

English | 12 pages | IFC

Dec 17, 2018

Case Study—National Foods Limited. Retaining Top Talent through Family-Friendly Policies

National Foods Limited is a food manufacturing company in Pakistan. This case study explores NFL’s business benefits that resulted from implementing family-friendly policies, including an on-site daycare facility and flexible work, as part of the company’s goals of becoming an equal opportunity employer. Since the launch of family-friendly policies, the company has achieved a 100% maternity return rate and a 65% increase in the number of women in its workforce.

English | 12 pages | IFC

Dec 17, 2018

Case Study—Interloop Limited. Advancing Women in Non-Traditional Roles

This case study discusses the business impacts that Interloop, a hosiery manufacturing company in Pakistan, obtained after recruiting and retaining female STEM graduates in nontraditional job roles. By creating an equal opportunity work environment, Interloop has been able to strengthen and maintain relationships with its key international buyers, reduce absenteeism and attrition rates, and increase productivity.

English | 12 pages | IFC

Dec 17, 2018

Case Study—HBL Pakistan. Advancing Gender Diversity through Effective Anti-Harassment Mechanisms

HBL, the largest bank in Pakistan, implemented a zero tolerance anti-harassment policy and realized this is a key element to achieving gender diversity by enhancing perceptions of safety and security for female and male employees. HBL has seen a steady increase in the share of women in its workforce, from 12.6% in 2015 to 15% in 2017. This case study explores HBL’s business impacts of creating a safe workplace.

English | 12 pages | IFC

Dec 17, 2018

Case Study—Artistic Milliners. Advancing Women in Business Leadership & Management

This case study highlights how Artistic Milliners, a denim manufacturing company in Pakistan, is strengthening its female talent pipeline and differentiating from competitors by achieving a 50:50 ratio of women and men in senior management positions. Women in leadership positions have steered their respective departments toward success. The company has seen a 70% increase in sales in the U.K. denim market as well as improved performance in the female-headed supply chain department, translating to savings of almost $2 million.

English | 12 pages | IFC