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Fresh Ideas - Creating Markets

Leveraging public and private investment to create markets where none exist and supporting the development of struggling markets is the core of IFC’s new 3.0 strategy. The opportunities to foster private markets stretch from education to health care and power supply, and from bond markets to commodity exchanges. Blending public and private finance addresses project specific financial challenges.

 

Fresh Ideas - Technology and Innovation

New technology and disruption can be positive forces for sustainable development. The latest analyses highlight how emerging markets have yet to fully take advantage of the opportunities that new technologies offer to increase development, growth and productivity. IFC seeks to foster innovations in emerging markets as well as eliminating obstacles to using and to the adoption of promising new technologies. Century old ideas promise a way to de-risk and leap forward.

 

Fresh Ideas - Private Solutions to Climate Change

Shifts to low carbon economies creates a need for innovative financing products to promote climate smart investments. A growing pool of investors is seeking to engage, but is lacking sustainable solutions. Emerging markets are facing the brunt of climate change consequences. Insurance can help reduce the impact of climate change.

 

Fresh Ideas - Financial Services

Access to financial services is a major development challenge. The rise of digital financial services and the need for increased private financial flows at the same time provide a set of opportunities and challenges never seen before. Transmitting money needs to become both easier and safer in the face of national security concerns and Basel III.

 

Fresh Ideas - Private Investment in Infrastructure

Transforming infrastructure into an investable asset class can be the key to increasing financial flows into emerging market infrastructure. Financial instruments, new platforms and standardization efforts are needed to create markets for infrastructure and to scale private investments into infrastructure in developing countries.

 

Fresh Ideas - Fragile and Conflict States

Fragile and conflict states struggle to enable a conducive business environment. Instable institutions, the lack of infrastructure and public goods as well as the burden of conflict suffocate even best efforts of investments into private business. IFC shows that it can be done successfully.

 

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Nov 6, 2020

Impacts of COVID-19 on the Private Sector in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant negative impact on the private sector in developing economies, and businesses and individuals in fragile and conflict-affected situations are among the most severely affected. The pandemic has evolved rapidly from a health emergency to a global economic crisis, spreading through the real sector and posing growing risks to financial systems. Notable sector-level impacts include supply- and demand-based shocks to infrastructure and private healthcare; disruptions to imports, exports, and global and local value chains; and declining agribusiness activity that threatens food insecurity, all leading to financial sector instability.

English | 8 pages — November — Note 93 | IFC 2020

Sep 29, 2016

Congo Call Center: Business Amid Fragility

In fragile settings the challenges of building a business are increased by a legacy of conflict, instability, and loss. Institutions struggle to provide basic services, let alone the complex reforms and public goods necessary for an enabling business environment. Despite these substantial obstacles, it is possible to create a sophisticated business in even the most challenging settings. The Congo Call Center is one such example—a formal services firm reliant on costly, imported technology that has grown and prospered in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

English | 2 Pages - September - Note 16 | © IFC, 2016

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