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Results - 25 of at least 51 items found
Jul 5, 2022
The Vietnam Country and Climate Development Report (CCDR) examines the adaptation and mitigation challenges faced by Vietnam. It pays special attention to policy trade-offs and provides recommendations to help policy makers prioritize among a range of options.
Jul 1, 2022
The Sri Lanka Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) provides IFC & World Bank analysis of growth and investment opportunities, constraints, & policy recommendations.
Jun 30, 2022
The Botswana Country Private Sector Diagnostic examines how the country can transform its economy and achieve a resilient recovery from COVID-19 by increasing private investment to reduce inequality, create jobs, and diversify its diamond-dependent economy
Jun 23, 2022
A new joint study by the IFC, the ADB, and the MFW4A gauges the appetite of African institutional investors for alternative asset classes.
Jun 22, 2022
The Turkiye Country Climate and Development Report explores how climate action, in line with the country’s mitigation goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2053 as well as its adaptation and resilience needs, interact with its growth and development path and contribute to achieving the country’s development objectives.
English | 78pages | 2022 WBG
Jun 17, 2022
Since its founding in 2014, Andela has opened up career paths for more than 175,000 budding software engineers from emerging economies. Most have technological or managerial roles, either in one of hundreds of established companies around the world, or in their own startups. Andela’s success indicates a path to growth for talented people, not just in software but in a variety of professions, by building the skills that people need to work in a global economy.
Jun 16, 2022
This note discusses Grupo Altex’s experience in offering a family-friendly workplace with a focus on childcare that can inspire and help other companies in providing similar opportunities for their employees.
English, 14 pages | Español, 15 pages | 2022 IFC
Jun 16, 2022
This technical benchmarking guide, created in partnership with the British Standards Institution (BSI), helps fill a critical knowledge gap on technical regulations and standards for PPE.
English | 272 pages | 2022 IFC
Jun 15, 2022
This learning brief presents an emerging business case, the challenges, and recommendations to advance gender equality within the distribution activities of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector.
English | 16 pages | 2022 IFC
Jun 15, 2022
The Chile Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) provides IFC & World Bank analysis of growth and investment opportunities, constraints, & policy recommendations.
Jun 15, 2022
This guide aims to provide an indicative list of investment activities and components that help protect, maintain or enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services as well as sustainably manage natural resources through practices that fuse conservation needs with sustainable development.
Jun 14, 2022
The Albania Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) provides WBG analysis of opportunities and constraints and offers policy options to foster private investment and growth.
English | 198 pages | 2022 IFC
Jun 10, 2022
Pakistan has a nascent distressed assets market with moderate NPL volumes. Implementing suggested reforms in this sector is necessary to reduce pricing gap between potential sellers and buyers which would help attract domestic and foreign investors.
Jun 8, 2022
IFC has worked with Amundi, a leading European asset manager, since 2018 to report on developments in the green bond market for emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs), focusing on both the issuance of these financial instruments in EMDEs and on the market reception and outlook for them.
Jun 1, 2022
Current and Potential Sustainable Bond Issuance for: Egypt, Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa in the sectors of power, transport, agribusiness
May 24, 2022
These systems can help safeguard the environment, reduce costs, and protect jobs and exports.
May 15, 2022
The Honduras Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) provides IFC & World Bank analysis of growth and investment opportunities, constraints, & policy recommendations.
English | 147 pages | 2022 IFC
May 13, 2022
This study examines 77% of all joint-stock companies in Kazakhstan, determining a clear correlation between gender diversity and financial and non-financial performance.
86 pages | © May 2022 IFC | Complimentary
May 12, 2022
IFC Scan Guide is a tool developed by the IFC Food Safety Advisory team to help analyze the policy and regulatory dimensions of a country's national food system. It provides a list of questions to allow users to identify challenges and transformations. Such assessment can help increase efficiency in protecting consumers and improving national food safety while supporting and creating a sustainable food industry. The IFC Scan Guide incorporates years of IFC specialists' experience working in different regions and contexts.
May 10, 2022
Approximately 600 million people lack access to electricity in Africa. Clean energy mini-grids offer an affordable, sustainable way to expand electricity access across the continent. Mini-grids are highly suitable for remote load centers and offer an opportunity to accelerate electrification through diversification. Although prices have fallen significantly, many countries are still unable to develop sustainable mini-grid programs at scale due to various challenges.
May 10, 2022
Handbook for Scaling Irrigation Systems
May 5, 2022
The Jamaica Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) provides IFC & World Bank analysis of growth and investment opportunities, constraints, & policy recommendations.
English | 86 pages | 2022 IFC
May 3, 2022
The Fiji Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) provides IFC and World Bank analysis of challenges and opportunities for investment and economic growth.
English | 104 pages | 2022 IFC
Apr 28, 2022
The Mali Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) provides IFC & World Bank analysis of investment opportunities and policy recommendations for private sector development.
English - 130 pages | French - 150 pages | 2022 IFC
Apr 25, 2022
Integrated Diagnostics Holdings (IDH), a Cairo-based network of testing laboratories that operates in Egypt, Jordan, Nigeria, and Sudan, has demonstrated how a private-sector testing laboratory can contribute to the overall health and well-being of a region.