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Nov 1, 2006

Access to Finance for Women Entrepreneurs in South Africa

Access to finance in South Africa is not equal across all groups. This fact sheet evaluates the challenges and opportunities to government and financial institutions in addressing this key issue.

Oct 2, 2006

Doing Business in Mexico 2007

Doing Business in Mexico 2007 is the second subnational report in the series Doing Business in Mexico. Doing Business in Mexico 2007

Oct 1, 2006

The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Pipeline Project

This paper focuses on six key areas where lessons learned were thought to be most valuable and applicable to other IFC-financed projects: environmental and social assessment and management; regional review; stakeholder engagement and disclosure; land acquisition and compensation; monitoring and reporting and community investment.

Sep 1, 2006

Voices of Vietnamese Women Entrepreneurs

Women constitute a large group in Vietnam in terms of business start-up and ownership. Encouraging more women to become involved in enterprise and grow existing businesses will impact postively on Vietnam's economic performance.

Sep 1, 2006

External Monitoring of the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Projects

To highlight the practical challenges and value of the external monitoring mechanism, the publication draws illustrative examples from the experiences of IFC during the Chad-Cameroon pipeline project in 2001.

Sep 1, 2006

Guidance for Supervisory Board Members of Banks

This manual is intended to provide a guide to international best practice. It is designed to help Supervisory Boards in a practical way attain and maintain a high standard of internal governance.

29 pages | © September 2006 IFC | Complimentary

Jun 10, 2006

Corruption, Economic Development and Governance: Private Sector Perspectives from Developing Countries

Private Sector Opinion 2, by John D. Sullivan. Corruption is now widely recognized as one of the greatest barriers to prosperity, economic competitiveness and development, and political and social stability of countries.

Jun 1, 2006

Women Entrepreneurs Guide for Senegal

French only.

May 1, 2006

Voices of Women Entrepreneurs in Kenya

The report profiles successful women business owners as role models and offers a unique perspective, grounded in experience, on the obstacles and constraints they have had to overcome.

Apr 1, 2006

2005 Sustainability Report

An annual overview of IFC's commitment to promote sustainable private sector investment in developing countries.

Apr 1, 2006

Access to Credit for Businesswomen in Indonesia

Women-owned businesses represent 60% of the total micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) in Indonesia, offering an important contribution to Indonesia's economic growth. With so many women working in the MSME sector in Indonesia, access to credit for businesswomen becomes an important issue to consider.

Mar 10, 2006

Dealing with Non-Controlling Shareholders: Issues and Best Practice

Private Sector Opinion 1, by Christian Strenger.

Mar 1, 2006

MPDF/IFC GEM Survey of Women Business Owners in Vietnam

The women entrepreneurs surveyed identified a number of key issues and made recommendations to support the growth of women-owned enterprises in Vietnam.

Mar 1, 2006

A Guide to Biodiversity for the Private Sector

This guide is designed to help companies operating in emerging markets better understand their relationship to biodiversity issues and how they can effectively manage those issues to improve business performance and benefit from biodiversity.

Online Only | © March 2006 IFC | Complimentary|

Mar 1, 2006

Case Studies of Good Corporate Governance

This second fully revised edition presents the experiences of a set of leading companies in Latin America in reforming and improving how their firms are governed.

Feb 1, 2006

Taking Stock — Adding Sustainability Variables to Asian Sectoral Analysis

The Taking Stock report focuses on identifying the key investment themes which investors should be evaluating in order to analyze environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues relevant to the largest and highest impact sectors in Asia.

Jan 2, 2006

Doing Business in Brazil 2006

Doing Business in Brazil 2006—the second state-level report in the Doing Business series—covers 13 Brazilian cities in 5 areas of regulation: starting a business, registering property, obtaining credit, paying taxes, and enforcing a contract. The subnational report highlights the increasing importance of state and city level reforms in a globalized world as cities, as much as countries, are competing for investments.
Doing Business in Brazil 2006

Jan 1, 2006

Good Practice Note: Non-Discrimination and Equal Opportunity

This Note seeks to help IFC clients and the wider private sector increase their understanding of non-discrimination and equal opportunity in a number of key areas, including: recognition of the various types of discrimination, and how and where it can occur in the workplace; obligations under national law and other international provisions; practical approaches and options for addressing workplace discrimination; and the benefits derived from diversifying the workforce.

Jan 1, 2006

Case Study Excerpt - Promoting Women's Employment in Mining

Sometimes companies can effectively pioneer change and challenge notions of workplace stereotypes. Programa Mujer, in Chile, is an innovative example of how to break with traditions that excludes women from mining operations.

Jan 1, 2006

Case Study Excerpt - "Going Beyond": Women's Empowerment Program in Sri Lanka and India

The MAS Holdings and its subsidiary companies launched a women's empowerment program entitled Go Beyond and the MAS Go Beyond "Empowered Woman of the Year" competition. The company’s apparel and manufacturing plants were over 90% women; a majority of them from predominantly rural backgrounds with limited access to enhance their education and skill base.

Nov 1, 2005

Who Cares Wins: One Year On

The report, a joint IFC and Global Compact report on financial institutions' initiatives in 2005, indicates three global trends that have led investors to pay greater attention to environmental, social and corporate governance issues.

Oct 1, 2005

Who Cares Wins 2005 Conference Report: Investing for Long-Term Value

The 2005 Who Cares Wins conference brought together investors, asset managers, buy-side and sell-side research analysts, global consultants and government bodies and regulators to examine the role of environmental, social and governance in asset management and financial research.

Oct 1, 2005

Herramienta 2: Elaboración de códigos de las mejores prácticas para el gobierno corporativo

Los códigos de gobierno corporativo son herramientas esenciales para mejorar las prácticas relacionadas con la dirección de empresas a nivel nacional.

Sep 1, 2005

Разработка Кодексов Hаилучшей Практики Корпоративного Управления

Страны, где налажена эффективная практика корпоративного управления, более успешно привлекают капитал.

Aug 1, 2005

Guide 2: Comment élaborer et mettre en œuvre un code de bonnes pratiques de gouvernance d’entreprise?

Les codes de gouvernance d’entreprise sont des outils essentiels au renforcement des pratiques de gouvernance au plan national.