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Publish Date: 4/23/18
ソーシャルボンド・インパクト・レポート（2018）
今回で2回目となるソーシャルボンドプログラムに関するレポートが今年3月に公表されました。皆様のご参照用として今年も日本語訳を作成しました。 2017年度の最新データまで含まれています。
Publish Date: 4/19/18
Crowding-In Capital Attracts Institutional Investors to Emerging Market Infrastructure Through Co-Lending Platform
Financing infrastructure in emerging markets is a critical global challenge for sustainable development. Through a new IFC program, private institutional investors can directly participate in the evolving infrastructure asset class in emerging markets. The program, IFC’s Managed Co-Lending Portfolio Program (MCPP) for Infrastructure, creates a structure that overcomes several hurdles that have inhibited the flow of private capital to emerging market infrastructure projects. Read more.
English | April 2018, Note 53
Publish Date: 4/19/18
Crowding-In Capital: How Insurance Companies Can Expand Access to Finance
Development institutions, governments, and the investment community have been exploring ways to increase private capital flows to support critical development projects in emerging markets. A new financing mechanism applies the risk-bearing capacity and know-how of insurance companies to allow these companies to take what are, in many cases, their first insurance exposure to markets and counterparties. This innovative credit insurance solution, which we call “Credit Mobilization,” is being pioneered to provide long-term funding to developing country banks, and may offer significant potential for scale-up and replication.
English | Note 52 - April 2018
Publish Date: 4/17/18
Blended Finance: A Stepping Stone to Creating Markets
At the heart of IFC’s approach to blended finance are efforts to create and help sustain private markets with strong development impact. This note explores the role of blended finance in creating markets and looks at lessons from three blended finance projects and structures—and how each contributed to the creation of markets that are scalable, sustainable, and resilient.
English | Note 51 - April 2018
Publish Date: 4/17/18
Setting a Higher Standard for Sustainability in Pakistan
IFC, US Apparel, and Levi Strauss & Co.: Setting a Higher Standard for Sustainability in Pakistan
Publish Date: 4/12/18
Eurasia University
Xi’an Eurasia University provides high-quality, employment-focused private education in Shaanxi, China and is changing the perception of privately-run tertiary education in the country. With an education philosophy to maximize the employment potential of its students, Eurasia is committed to offering a combination of an applied curriculum and student-centered learning with hands-on industry experience. In 2016, 85 percent of students secured a job prior to graduation.
Publish Date: 4/10/18
Shaping The Future Of Africa French
The report, entitled Shaping the Future of Africa: Markets and Opportunities for Private Investors, notes that growth recovered from a two-decade low of 1.3 percent in 2016 to an estimated 2.4 percent in 2017, and is projected to improve further to 3.6 percent in 2020.
Publish Date: 4/5/18
CASE STUDY: BYJU'S—Cultivating a Love of Learning in K-12
How a Learning App is Promoting Deep Conceptual Understanding that is Improving Educational Outcomes in India
Publish Date: 3/26/18
IFC’s Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
As part of the World Bank Group (WBG), IFC has two overarching goals—ending extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity—that are aligned with the SDGs. Through direct investments and advisory services, IFC provides private sector solutions that lay the foundation for sustainable and inclusive economic growth. This note provides an overview of IFC’s strategic alignment with the SDGs and articulates how its operations contribute to achieving the SDGs
English | 8 pages | IFC, 2018
Publish Date: 3/26/18
CASE STUDY: ADvTECH—A New Dawn for Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa
How the Largest Education Group is Increasing Access to Quality, Affordable Higher Education
Publish Date: 3/23/18
Shaping The Future Of Africa
The end of the commodity super cycle in 2014 hit Sub-Saharan economies hard, sending economic growth to a two decade low by 2016 as prices of crude oil, commodities, and other African exports fell dramatically. In addition, global financial factors reduced the interest of international investors in the region.
Publish Date: 3/20/18
Guidance for Sovereign Green Bond Issuers
Emerging markets and other sovereign nations are becoming a significant new force in the global green bond market attracting millions of dollars to help combat climate change by reaching a new class of investors through sovereign green bonds, according to a new report by IFC, a sister organization of the World Bank. This report, Guidance for Sovereign Green Bond Issuers, focuses on lessons from Fiji’s historic making move in being the first emerging economy to issue a sovereign green bond.
Publish Date: 3/12/18
Good Practice Note: Environmental, Health, and Safety Approaches for Hydropower Projects
This Good Practice Note is intended to be used in conjunction with other EHS Guidelines and IFC's Performance Standards to identify, avoid, mitigate, and manage EHS risks and impacts in hydropower projects.
Publish Date: 3/12/18
Financial Inclusion in the Digital Age
This report highlights some of the central frictions that prevent greater financial inclusion and financial well-being, and associated technological innovations that are fostering creative new approaches to mitigating these frictions for individuals and small businesses globally.
Publish Date: 3/2/18
Good Practice Handbook on Environmental Flows for Hydropower Projects
This Good Practice Handbook provides guidance to practitioners on taking rigorous and consistent approaches to assess and manage hydropower project impacts on downstream river ecosystems and people through the assessment and provision of environmental flows (EFlows).
Publish Date: 3/2/18
Good Practice Handbook on Environmental Flows for Hydropower Projects
This Good Practice Handbook provides guidance to practitioners on taking rigorous and consistent approaches to assess and manage hydropower project impacts on downstream river ecosystems and people, through the assessment and provision of environmental flows (EFlows).
Publish Date: 3/2/18
Good Practice Handbook on Environmental Flows for Hydropower Projects
This Good Practice Handbook provides guidance to practitioners on taking rigorous and consistent approaches to assess and manage hydropower project impacts on downstream river ecosystems and people through the assessment and provision of environmental flows (EFlows).
Publish Date: 3/1/18
Driving Toward Equality: Women, Ride-Hailing, and the Sharing Economy
The report Driving Toward Equality: Women, Ride-Hailing, and the Sharing Economy, explores how women and men participate in ride-hailing, particularly in emerging markets. The report uses data from Uber and survey results of more than 11,000 drivers and riders. It sheds light on how the emergence of ride-hailing is affecting women's work and mobility and how companies across the sharing economy can ensure women's equal participation and gain.
English
Publish Date: 3/1/18
Assesment of Tax Compliance Costs for Businesses in Tajikistan
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the costs borne by the private business for compliance with the tax legislation requirements. This study shall serve as a basis for elaboration of recommendations on tax administration governance, and may also be used as a benchmark against which the efficiency of adopted reforms will be judged.
English
Publish Date: 3/1/18
Исследование затрат бизнеса на соблюдение обязательных требований Налогового законодательства в Республике Таджикистан
Целью исследования IFC являлось оценка годовых расходов бизнеса на соблюдение требований налогового законодательства и законодательства по платежам по социальному страхованию (включая расчет сумм налогов и обязательных платежей; заполнение и сдачу налоговой, финансовой и статистической отчетности; прохождение налоговых проверок и выполнение других процедур, вытекающих из налоговых обязательств).
English
Publish Date: 2/27/18
The State of Governance at State-Owned Enterprises
Private Sector Opinion 40: Commercial enterprises that are owned and controlled by governments continue to constitute a significant portion of business activity in many parts of the world. This paper examines three critical areas for strengthening the quality of governance of state-owned firms—professionalizing government ownership, strengthening commercial orientation, and developing stronger, more independent boards—and the challenges involved in implementing reforms.
Publish Date: 2/26/18
Sustainable Banking Network (SBN) Global Progress Report
The IFC-supported Sustainable Banking Network (SBN)’s first comprehensive Global Progress Report evaluates sustainable finance principles and policies in 34 member countries.
Publish Date: 2/15/18
Corporate Governance Updates Newsletter - October-December 2017
Quarterly newsletter that highlights IFC's corporate governance work around the world, including news and events, latest indicators, media coverage, reports and publications.
Publish Date: 2/6/18
Creating Value for Banks and Boosting Economic Growth
In 2013, the World Bank Group established two ambitious goals: Ending extreme poverty within a generation and boosting shared prosperity. Ensuring the full and equal participation of women and men in the economic and social development of nations is essential to achieving these goals. Creating Value for Banks and Boosting Economic Growth
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