IFC worked with Small and Medium
Enterprises (SMEs) and farmers in the Nepalese poultry
sector to strengthen their technical skills, increase
profitability, and expand...
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
partnered with Jain Irrigation Systems Limited, an Indian
company that is a leading international producer of
processed fruits...
Safe disposal of children’s feces is as
essential as the safe disposal of adults’ feces. This brief
provides an overview of the available data on child feces
disposal...
In 2006, IFC partnered with Ecom
Agroindustrial Ltd., a global leader in commodity trading,
to help coffee suppliers in Central America improve their
incomes through...
Agricultural exports from Belarus,
Ukraine and Georgia have been limited, primarily due to food
safety concerns. IFC is helping food producers in all three
countries...
Malnutrition is one of India's most
serious and persistent problems. While nutrition outcomes
across India are poor, they are typically worse in tribal
and backward...
The Integrating Nutrition Promotion and
Rural Development (INPARD) Project aims to implement and
evaluate nutrition promotion activities through the on-going
World Bank...
Jobs are critical to ending the cycle of
poverty because they give people the opportunity to support
themselves and their families. Policymakers focused on
helping people...
Type: BriefReport#: 92255Date: October 1, 2014Author:
Hirshleifer,Sarojini ;
Mckenzie,David J. ;
Almeida,Rita Kullberg ;
Ridao-Cano,Cristobal
Adolescents around the world face
tremendous challenges to meeting their sexual and
reproductive health (SRH) needs. Inadequate access to health
information and services,...
Type: BriefReport#: 91291Date: October 1, 2014Author:
Cortez,Rafael A. ;
Hinson, Laura ;
Petroni, Suzanne
At a time of deepening economic
difficulties in Bulgaria including a doubling of
unemployment the government has recognized the need to
re-think its approach to economic...
IFC worked with eight olive oil
companies representing the majority of the sector in the
West Bank and Gaza to develop supply chains, improve
quality, and increase exports....
The world will need to produce at least
50 percent more food by 2050 to feed 9 billion people.
Agriculture is critical for fighting hunger, boosting food
security, tackling...
Indices are frequently used to motivate
behavior - think of the World Bank's doing business
reports or the United Nations Development Program's
(UNDP's) human development...
Type: BriefReport#: 93306Date: October 1, 2014Author:
El-Zoghbi,Mayada ;
Scola Gahwiler,Barbara Bernadette Maria
This note discusses the results of a
pilot of an innovative insurance product, which aims to
protect small firms from macroeconomic and political risk
that might inhibit...
Type: BriefReport#: 91228Date: October 1, 2014Author:
Groh,Matthew Robert ;
Mckenzie,David J.
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
helped raisin and pomegranate farmers increase the quality
and quantity of their crops through farm extension services
and farm...
In Mumbai, slums accommodate 5.2 million
people - 41 percent of the city's population. Many
households obtain access to electricity through illegal
connections, which...
The World Bank Group’s Global Index
Insurance Facility (GIIF) in partnership with its regional
partners has been working with researchers and scientists to
refine satellite...
Small business owners in the Democratic
Republic of Congo often lack the ability to supply large
companies because they don’t have adequate business
management skills...
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
is working with leading seed companies in Bangladesh to
promote sustainable farming practices, such as the
production, distribution,...
IFC is strengthening the Cambodian rice
sector by helping to add value along every step of the
supply chain, with key interventions at the farming, milling
and export...
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