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Dec 4, 2018
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Investing in Private Equity in Sub-Saharan African Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations
Nov 27, 2018
IFC SME Ventures: Investing Private Equity in Sub Saharan Africa
IFC SME Ventures: Investing in Private Equity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jun 29, 2018
Unlocking Private Investment
Côte d’Ivoire pledged to achieve 42 percent of renewable-energy generation by 2030 under the Paris Agreement to combat climate change. Achieving this target could create a $9 billion investment opportunity by 2030, but the key question is how to unlock private financing. Working with the Ivorian government, IFC developed a roadmap that highlights promising pathways toward attracting private sector investment while focusing on the government’s goals.
May 15, 2018
DIGITAL ACCESS: The Future of Financial Inclusion in Africa
The launch and growth of digital financial services in Africa has led to an unprecedented increase in the number of people enjoying access to formal financial services. The continent is now home to more digital financial services deployments than any other region in the world, with almost half of the nearly 700 million individual users worldwide. Mobile money solutions and agent banking now offer affordable, instant, and reliable transactions, savings, credit, and even insurance opportunities in rural villages and urban neighborhoods where no bank had ever established a branch.
97 pages | English | 2018, IFC
May 14, 2018
What We Learned about Corporate Governance and Code Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
The report presents 10 lessons learned attained over more than two decades of experience in code development in South Africa and other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Apr 27, 2018
Kakuma as a Marketplace
A consumer and market study of a refugee camp and town in northwest Kenya (Special Conference Edition)
English | 88 pages | 2018 IFC
Apr 10, 2018
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.
Mar 26, 2018
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
Mar 23, 2018
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.
Nov 20, 2017
Creating Markets in Ghana – Country Private Sector Diagnostic
Creating Markets in Ghana – A new joint IFC and World Bank study has identified agribusiness, ICT and education services in Ghana as high growth potential sectors. The Country Private Sector Diagnostics (CPSD) identify sectors where private sector solutions can create or expand markets, and make substantial contributions to development impact.
English | 54 pages | 2017, IFC
Mar 2, 2017
Nigeria Financial Literacy Baseline Survey Report
Nigeria is an entrepreneurial economy with an estimated 37 million micro, small and medium-sized companies in the country, and their contribution to economic growth and job creation is significant. There are also a large number of self-employed entrepreneurs who support themselves and their families by supplying goods and services to the economy. Many of these businesses have the potential to become bigger and more prosperous, but their growth is restricted for a variety of reasons. Access to finance has been singled out as a crucial prerequisite to the growth of these businesses. Learn how the use of moveable collateral and credit reporting can help finance inclusive economic growth in Nigeria.
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Sep 16, 2016
Bridge International Academies
Bridge International Academies is an education organization founded in 2008 in Kenya, and grown to serve almost 100,000 students in over 470 locations in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, and India. The company offers affordable, low-cost education to primary school children in underserved, low-income communities. The schools employ low-cost technology to provide teaching content to its teachers and to monitor the delivery of the content and teaching techniques on a real time basis. The company reaches more than 40 million customers in 15 countries in Africa and Asia. This case study is in the 2016 Built for Change report which features companies that are employing unique strategies to integrate people living at the base of the pyramid into the companies’ business operations.
Sep 16, 2016
MicroEnsure
MicroEnsure has developed pioneering insurance solutions for low-income people in Africa and Asia living on less than $4 per day. Founded in 2008, the company has introduced over 200 types of insurance for life, health, and accidents for the poor, and distributes its products through mobile network operators, microfinance institutions, and other organizations that low-income customers trust. The company reaches more than 40 million customers in 15 countries in Africa and Asia. This case study is in the 2016 Built for Change report which features companies that are employing unique strategies to integrate people living at the base of the pyramid into the companies’ business operations.
Aug 24, 2016
Transforming African Development: Partnerships and Risk Mitigation to Mobilize Private Investment on a New Scale
The role of the private sector is particularly significant in Africa—the focus of this report. Africa’s population is expected to increase to 1.7 billion in 2030. By 2050, the continent will be home to 2.4 billion people—a quarter of the world’s future population.
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Aug 24, 2016
Transformer le développement de l’Afrique: Partenariats et atténuation des risques pour mobiliser l’investissement privé à une nouvelle échelle
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Aug 24, 2016
アフリカ開発への軌跡: パートナーシップとリスクの低減により 民間投融資を新たな規模で動員
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Mar 16, 2016
CASE STUDY: A Hotel Is Not Just A Place To Sleep
IFC investments in high-quality hotels: Promoting jobs, business infrastructure, tax revenues, and local supply chains
Nov 26, 2014
Empowering Farmers and Small and Micro Entrepreneurs in the Democratic Republic of Congo
IFC worked with Minoterie de Matadi, a flour and feed milling company in the Democratic Republic of Congo known as MIDEMA, to strengthen its value chain by providing IFC’s Business Edge training to farmers and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and facilitated their links to financial institutions and their access to finance.
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa / Strategic Priority: Agribusiness
Nov 25, 2014
Increasing the Energy Efficiency of the Largest Fruit Exporter in South Africa
In South Africa, demand for energy has outpaced national supply as there has been little investment in energy infrastructure. Country-wide power outages and an increasingly insufficient supply have led to escalating energy prices.
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa / Strategic Priority: Agribusiness
Nov 24, 2014
Improving the Productivity of Smallholder Coffee Farms in Kenya
IFC is working with Ecom, a global leader in commodity trading, to raise the productivity of smallholder farms, improve the quality of their coffee, and have a positive impact on the livelihoods of farmers in Kenya.
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa / Strategic Priority: Agribusiness
Sep 1, 2014
Millicom
Millicom is a leading international telecommunications and media company dedicated to emerging markets in Latin America and Africa. Millicom sets the pace when it comes to providing digital lifestyle services to the world’s emerging markets, giving access to the world, primarily through mobile devices. Operating in fourteen countries, Millicom offers innovative and customer-centric products.
Aug 27, 2014
IFC’s Conflict Affected States in Africa Initiative: Final report for CASA's first cycle (2008-2013)
_ Development Impact Report 2013
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Jun 12, 2014
Waste Heat Recovery for the Cement Sector: Market and Supplier Analysis
This report analyzes the current status of Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) technology deployment in developing countries and investigates the success factors in countries where WHR has become widely spread.
81 pages | © June 2014 IFC | Complimentary|
Jun 1, 2014
Kenya Tea Development Agency
The Kenya Tea Development Agency Ltd. (KTDA) was established in 2000 and is owned by 54 tea companies which, in turn, have 550,000 small tea farmers as individual shareholders. The tea companies collectively own 66 tea processing factories. KTDA emerged from the privatization of the Kenya Tea Development Authority (the Authority), a parastatal agency created in the 1960s to support small farmers. KTDA’s services cut across the entire tea value chain and include inputs and agri-extension, transportation, warehousing, processing, marketing, and financing. KTDA farmers receive 75-80% of the final tea price, a higher payout than farmers in neighboring countries. More than 62,000 farmers have received loans since 2009.
Apr 29, 2014
Striving for Business Success: Voices of Liberian Women Entrepreneurs
This report is an overview of the women’s market in Liberia and provides insights on the experiences of women entrepreneurs in post conflict and fragile affected states. Through the journey of seven Liberian women business-owners, the report highlights the many challenges women enterprises in post conflict countries face. The report also provides recommendations to governments, private sector entities, donors and practitioners looking to increase opportunities for women enterprises in these countries.
35 pages | © April 2014 IFC | Complimentary
