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Sep 22, 2011

Accelerating Inclusive Business Opportunities: Business Models that Make a Difference

IFC's newest inclusive business report, "Accelerating Inclusive Business Opportunities," identifies seven inclusive business models that expand access to goods, services, and livelihood opportunities for the world’s poorest people while generating strong financial returns. These models are helping companies turn underserved populations into dynamic consumer markets and diverse new sources of supply. 

Sep 22, 2011

Inclusive Business Models: Guide to the Inclusive Business Models in IFC's Portfolio

This new report includes a set of 31 case studies on IFC’s portfolio companies with inclusive business models. Together these companies are profitably providing goods, services, and livelihood opportunities to more than 100 million people at the base of the economic pyramid. 

Sep 19, 2011

Annual Report 2011

IFC’s Annual Report 2011 highlights IFC’s support for businesses and entrepreneurs while promoting, developing, and generating growth. IFC provided nearly $19 billion in financing for private sector development, $6.5 billion of which was mobilized from partners.

English | 116 Pages | © 2011 IFC | Complimentary

Sep 19, 2011

Corporate SME Workouts Report

The Corporate and SME workouts: A Manual of Best Practice", is a guide for lending institution staff dealing with corporate and SME non-performing loans (NPLs). This manual deals with both ad hoc and systemic financial distress and delves into how borrower problems may have arisen in the first place. It provides guidance to lending institutions’ staff responsible for handling individual problem loans and to senior managers responsible for organizing portfolio-wide asset resolution.

Sep 16, 2011

Sense and Sensibility: Helping Companies See the Value of Women in the Boardroom

This SmartLesson describes the initiative in Jordan and Pakistan, which will be an adaptable model for other select countries in the region.

Sep 1, 2011

General Principles for Credit Reporting

The report describes the nature of credit reporting elements which are crucial for understanding credit reportingand to ensuring that credit reporting systems are safe, efficient and reliable. The Principles suggest the key characteristics that should be satisfied by different systems and the infrastructure used to support them to achieve a common purpose.

Sep 1, 2011

Sustainability Case Study: Newpack (Madagascar)

This case study showcases I&P, an IFC Private Equity client, and one of its investee company, Newpack, a corrugated cardboard packaging SME in Madagascar. Through resource efficiency and the recycling and sales of paper waste, Newpack has garnered new clients and increased financial returns.

4 pages | © September 2011 IFC | Complimentary

Sep 1, 2011

Moderna

Moderna Alimentos S.A. (Moderna) is Ecuador’s leading miller and marketer of wheat flour. Moderna currently supports over 4,200 small bakeries with critical ingredients, convenient ordering and delivery methods, technical assistance, and credit. Over 10,000 individuals at more than 5,000 small bakeries have received business and bakery training.

Aug 25, 2011

Regional Energy Saving Program Development: Comprehensive Approach, Methodology, 2010

The goal of this methodology is to present a practical algorithm of creating regional energy saving programs.  Energy saving is often seen as independent from main regional development programs, but in reality it is an integral part, and often a basic element, of regional development as a whole.
Regional Energy Saving Program Development: Comprehensive Approach, Methodology, 2010

Aug 25, 2011

IFC Financing to Micro, SME in Europe and Central Asia, Factsheet, 2010

IFC is working to develop solutions to close the micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) financing gap, collaborating with 88 financial institutions across 24 countries in Europe and Central Asia.  As of June 2010, IFC committed a total of $2.8 billion to MSME finance in Europe and Central Asia, with $918.7 million in fiscal year 2010. In addition, IFC’s microfinance institution (MFI) clients had 209 thousand loans outstanding to micro-enterprises in Europe and Central Asia by end of 2009, totaling $411.3 million. Similarly, IFC’s SME financial institution (SME FI) clients had 386 thousand loans outstanding to SMEs by end of 2009, totaling $29.9 billion in this region. IFC Financing to Micro, SME in Europe and Central Asia, Factsheet, 2010

Aug 25, 2011

IFC Advisory Services in Infrastructure, Ongoing Public-Private Partnerships in Southern Europe & Central Asia, Flyer 2010

There are currently six active public-private partnerships (PPP) in infrastructure in the region.  Southern Europe and Central Asia has been hard hit by the global economic turmoil. IFC’s strategy is to improve the business enabling environment by modernizing the region’s infrastructure and helping governments strengthen regulatory frameworks. IFC Advisory Services in Infrastructure, Ongoing Public-Private Partnerships in Southern Europe & Central Asia, Flyer 2010

Aug 25, 2011

Energy Efficiency: A New Resource for Sustainable Growth, Practices Among Companies in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine, Survey Report, 2010

This report summarizes and analyzes the results of energy effi ciency surveys undertaken by IFC in the industrial sectors of six countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine (the “survey countries”).  The survey assessed how industrial enterprises in each of the survey countries prioritize, understand, plan, fi nance, and implement energy effi ciency investments. Th e resulting analysis is intended to help governments, fi nancial institutions, companies, donors, and private investors identify opportunities to provide goods and services that improve energy efficiency.  The industrial sectors surveyed were the food, chemical, building materials, metal processing, and machine building industries. Energy Efficiency: A New Resource for Sustainable Growth, Practices Among Companies in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine, Survey Report, 2010

Aug 25, 2011

Alternative Dispute Resolution Program (ADR) in the Western Balkans: Giving Mediation a Chance, Telling Our ADR Story, 2010

The Alternative Dispute Resolution program was started in 2003 with the goal of providing companies in the region with a much quicker and cheaper option for resolving commercial disputes: mediation.  This report describes the means IFC used to introduce and implement this ADR approach in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia. Alternative Dispute Resolution Program (ADR) in the Western Balkans: Giving Mediation a Chance, Telling Our ADR Story, 2010

Aug 25, 2011

Corporate Governance Success Stories

Corporate Governance Success Stories

Aug 22, 2011

Women Business Owners in Vietnam

Women Business Owners in Vietnam

Aug 19, 2011

Simplification of The Process and Procedures In Land Access And Development Permits In Vietnam

Simplification of The Process and Procedures In Land Access And Development Permits In Vietnam

Aug 11, 2011

International Standards and Technical Regulations Program brochure, 2009

International Standards and Technical Regulations Program brochure, 2009

Aug 10, 2011

Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets: Why It Matters to Investors - and What They Can Do About It

Private Sector Opinion 22: by Melsa Ararat and George Dallas. What should investors do when scholarly research on corporate governance in emerging markets does not provide conclusive evidence on which aspects of governance matter most across all the emerging markets and how they affect firm performance?

Aug 1, 2011

Climate Risk and Business: Agribusiness - Tropical Plantation and Refinery

This study assesses climate-related risks for Ghana Oil Palm Development Company (GOPDC).

Jul 21, 2011

Focus 9: Women on Boards: A Conversation with Male Directors

More than 15 prominent male chairpersons, CEOs, and directors of listed and unlisted companies worldwide shared their opinions on how women add value to the corporate decision-making process. They also discussion also led to recruitment practices, training, and improving transparency of the director nomination process.

Jul 13, 2011

Guide to Getting Started in Local Procurement

This short guide is designed to help project site operators in companies in the extractive industries to create a policy and strategy for local procurement.

Jul 12, 2011

Прирачник за Корпоративно Управување во Македонските Акционерски Друштва

Корпоративното управување е збир на принципи на внатрешната организација на компаниите кој овозможува ефикасна омуникација меѓу сите чинители во една компанија, вклучително и акционерите, одборот, менаџерите, вработените и останатите заинтересирани страни. Целта на овој Прирачник да стане корисен референтен материјал во библиотеките на секоја компанија, со цел да се донесуваат информирани одлуки кои ќе носат долгорочно-позитивни резултати за компаниите.

Jul 11, 2011

Increasing Access to Credit Through Collecteral (Secured Transactions) Reform

Jul 11, 2011

Simplification of Business Start-up Process and Procedures: A Handbook for Provinces

Jul 11, 2011

Vietnam Energy Efficiency and Cleaner Production Financing

Description of IFC's works in Vietnam