Guidelines, Reviews and Case Studies
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Oct 4, 2019
SME Governance Guidebook
This Guidebook specifically addresses the challenges and opportunities faced by SMEs at the various stages of their lifecycles, offering tailored corporate governance recommendations. The Guidebook includes the Action Planning Tool to help SME owners, investors, and managers take a pragmatic approach to governance, as a means of strengthening their businesses over the long term.
Jul 30, 2019
Women on Board in Egypt - How Gender-Diverse Boards Bring Value to Egyptian Companies
A research study on the relationship between gender diversity on corporate boards and a company’s financial performance in Egypt. The study examines the barriers to female participation on boards, highlights opportunities to increase the number of women in boardrooms and proposes recommendations on how to achieve greater gender equality in the boardroom, build a pipeline of female business leaders, and promote gender-equality practices in the Egyptian labor market.
Jul 30, 2019
Women on Board in Lebanon - How Gender-Diverse Boards Bring Value to Lebanese Companies
The study examines the current status of gender diversity, the barriers to female participation on boards and obstacles preventing optimal performance once in these positions in the corporate world. It highlights opportunities to increase the number of women in Lebanese boardrooms and proposes recommendations on how to achieve greater gender equality in the boardroom.
Jul 23, 2019
Trailblazers - Portraits of Female Business Leadership in Emerging and Frontier Markets
The publication features the inspirational personal stories of 20 female business leaders and their advice to other female professionals aspiring to top positions, and highlights the positive impact of their leadership on private sector development in emerging and frontier markets. It also provides key gender facts and data on the status of women on boards and in business leadership around the world.
Jun 27, 2019
Women on Boards in Nigeria
The report seeks to answer questions about low level of female representation on Nigerian boards, initiatives that can improve it and how these initiatives can be implemented.
Jun 20, 2019
Board Gender Diversity in ASEAN
The study advances the case that having women in business leadership positions is good for company performance, confirmed through an analysis of more than 1,000 companies in six countries belonging to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
Mar 28, 2019
We Lead: Five Women Who Drove Company Success in the Middle East and North Africa And How Good Corporate Governance Helped
The publication showcases current women directors from Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Yemen, and Morocco who went through various challenges to reach the leadership tier and to show how corporate governance knowledge helped them in their work.
Mar 5, 2019
The Case for Gender Diversity Among Sri Lanka’s Business Leadership
The publication makes the case for greater gender diversity on Sri Lanka’s corporate boards and in senior management by identifying a correlation between financial performance and gender diversity in Sri Lanka’s 30 largest listed companies. It also offers practical and relevant strategies to narrow the gender gap in the Sri Lankan context.
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.
Sep 28, 2018
Corporate Governance Case Studies in East Asia and the Pacific
A combined publication with East Asia and the Pacific Corporate Governance case studies in Cambodia, Indonesia, Timor-Leste and Vietnam.
Sep 25, 2018
Corporate Governance Case Studies in Timor-Leste
The report highlights IFC’s corporate governance work in Timor-Leste with Kaebauk Investimentu No Finansas, a microfinance institution that provides microloans to women in poor rural and urban populations and plans to expand into non-financial offerings like agriculture and business development training, financial literacy classes and environmental services.
Jul 26, 2018
Corporate Governance Case Studies in Vietnam
The report highlights success stories of IFC’s corporate governance work in Vietnam with TMG, the leading integrated travel and hospitality group in South Asia that specializes in destination management services, hospitality, aviation and online travel agent services; VPBank, a recently listed private joint-stock commercial bank that provides commercial and retail banking products and services in Vietnam; and Vinamilk, chosen as the first ever Vietnamese representative for Forbes’s 50 Best Listed Firms in the Asia Pacific 2016, that mainly produces and distributes condensed milk, powdered milk, fresh milk, soya milk, yogurt, ice-cream, cheese, fruit juice and beverage, and other milk-based products.
Jul 5, 2018
Synthesis Report: 6th International Research Conference on Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets
This synthesis report presents the outcome of the 6th International Conference organized by the Emerging Markets Corporate Governance Network
Jun 28, 2018
Family Business Governance Handbook in Amharic
This is an Amharic translation of the IFC Family Business Governance Handbook, which is a concise and practical description of essential family business governance components and suggested approaches to resolving common family business governance dilemmas.
May 24, 2018
Gender Diversity in Ghanaian Boardrooms
This publication provides a baseline exploration into gender diversity in the Ghanaian boardroom. It examines gender diversity—across sectors, ownership types, legal status, listing status, and a number of organizational and board-level characteristics—to provide empirical evidence to guide the development of organizational and national policy.
May 14, 2018
What We Learned about Corporate Governance and Code Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
The report presents 10 lessons learned attained over more than two decades of experience in code development in South Africa and other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
May 3, 2018
Corporate Governance Case Studies in Cambodia
The report highlights IFC’s corporate governance work in Cambodia with Amret, a leading microfinance institution in Cambodia that serves micro, small and medium enterprises and provides financial services to rural and urban clients including farmers, small businesses and households.
Mar 29, 2018
Recommendations for Corporate Governance Guidelines for Non-Listed and Family-Owned Companies in Colombia (in Spanish)
The report analyzed the effectiveness of the 2009 Colombian Corporate Governance Guide for Closed and Family-Owned Businesses and proposed detailed recommendations based on an analysis of global developments and best practices over the past decade. The recommendations focus on the role of technology, sustainability, ESG and transparency practices.
Jan 9, 2018
Corporate Governance Scores S&P BSE 100 companies
The report presents the corporate governance scores of companies forming the S&P BSE 100 index. The scores are based on the Indian Corporate Governance Scorecard Methodology that is a set of 70 questions based on the G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance.
Dec 29, 2017
Corporate Governance Case Studies in Indonesia
The report highlights IFC’s corporate governance work in Indonesia with two companies, Blue Bird, a leading transport group, and Saratoga, an active investment holding company. The case studies demonstrate the business case for good corporate governance in Indonesia through the experiences of IFC clients that have made significant governance improvements over the past few years and the impacts they reported.
Nov 15, 2017
CEO Succession Planning in India
This report discusses the importance of succession planning and presents case studies of CEO succession planing in India.
Jul 18, 2017
Emisores de Valores and Gobierno Corporativo - Un Análisis a Las Encuestas de Código País 2007-2014
La publication analize el impacto generado por el Codigo Pais 2007 sobre las practicas organizacionales de los emisores de valores en Colombia.
Mar 29, 2017
OECD Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises (Vietnamese and English)
State-owned enterprises face unique corporate governance challenges. This publication presents OECD’s Guidelines on Corporate Governance of SOEs, 2015 edition, as a result of the contributions of experienced policy-makers and practitioners from a large number of OECD and non-OECD countries. The Vietnamese translation of this work is provided by the Vietnam Corporate Governance Project of IFC.
Feb 21, 2017
Latin American Companies Circle - Recommendations on Ethics and Compliance
This paper has a set of recommendations on ethical principles and the corporate compliance function.It is based on discussions and input from member companies of the Compliance and Ethics Working Group of the Latin American Companies Circle.
Dec 19, 2016
Indian Corporate Governance Scorecard
This publication provides a standardized and objective evaluation framework that can be used by companies, regulators and other stakeholders to assess Indian companies’ corporate governance practices.
