Eru, a vegetable found in the forest,
plays an important role in trade between countries in West
and Central Africa, especially between Cameroon and Nigeria.
This note...
Type: BriefReport#: 79711Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Ndumbe, Louis Njie
IFC provided trainers accredited to
provide Business Edge management training to SMEs in
Novartis' supply chain telemarketers to develop
effective sales pitches, pharmacy...
IFC worked with Business Partners
Limited (BPL), a South Africa-based specialty risk finance
firm, to create Business Partners International (BPI) in
2004. The firm...
IFC is working with international mining
company Rio Tinto in Guinea to ensure the participation of
local businesses in its supply chain as it develops its
Simandou...
Type: BriefReport#: 112842Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Dodd,Desmond
Over the last few years, Pakistan's
intra government relations have undergone major changes.
While they have created many opportunities for improving
service delivery,...
Type: BriefReport#: 79582Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Hanid Mukhtar
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States
(OECS) countries faces two critical barriers for developing
their infrastructure and connectivity: their conditions of
island...
Type: BriefReport#: 78600Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Bofinger, Heinrich C. ;
Placci, Florencia Millan
The past decade has witnessed an
unprecedented rise in world oil prices and oil price
volatility. Since 2002, the spot price for West Texas
Intermediate (WTI) has increased...
Employment outcomes in developing
countries began showing signs of strain in the second half
of 2012, after a year of gradual progress. Figure 1 shows
median growth...
Type: BriefReport#: 86949Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Arias-Vazquez,Francisco Javier ;
Mansuri,Ghazala ;
Newhouse,David Locke ;
Phadera,Lokendra
IFC worked with Ecom, a global trading
company specializing in coffee, cotton, and cocoa, to
strengthen the ability of its coffee suppliers to meet
international standards...
IFC works with Belcorp, a Peruvian
door-to-door sales cosmetics company, to expand its business
model focusing on women entrepreneurs. The company provides
opportunities...
In January 2013, the International
Budget Partnership (IBP) released the latest Open Budget
Survey (OBS) with a new section on public participation. The
survey results...
Type: BriefReport#: 125047Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Kang,Youngkyu ;
(Sandy) Min, Saw Young
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) pose
significant challenges to individuals, communities, and
nations alike, and represent the major cause of death in the
Caribbean....
Type: BriefReport#: 78596Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Matthews,Clark Alexander
As part of a broader effort to
liberalize and reform its energy sector, the Albanian
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Energy decided to privatize
four hydropower plants...
Pakistan faces serious governance
challenges that affect the state's ability to deliver
services to its citizens. These challenges are a combination
of weaknesses in...
Type: BriefReport#: 79580Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Idris,Iffat ;
Rana,Naseer Ahmad ;
Touqeer,Irum
IFC is working with Pan-African
University’s Enterprise Development Center (EDC) to
strengthen small enterprises by providing business
management training and advice,...
Since 2000 Public-Private Infrastructure
Advisory Facility (PPIAF) has funded 23 activities in Kenya
worth $5.8 million. Five of these activities were funded
under the...
IFC is working with the Yemen Education
for Employment Foundation (YEFE) to increase employment
among the country’s women and college-educated youth, two
segments of...
Developing domestic capital markets is a
priority for IFC. Deep, efficient local capital markets
create access to long-term local currency finance, mobilize
funds for...
Type: BriefReport#: 192487Date: June 1, 2013Author:
World Bank
In recent years, the World Bank has had
the honor and privilege of welcoming incoming
administrations with a series of diagnostics studies and
policy recommendations....
Type: BriefReport#: 79556Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Basim,Uzma ;
Benmessaoud,Rachid ;
Cholst,Anthony ;
Lopez Calix,Jose R.
Pakistan's health and nutrition
outcomes and service coverage lag behind those in most other
South Asian countries, despite slowly improving over the
past decade. Key...
Type: BriefReport#: 79567Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Haq,Inaam Ul ;
Kazi,Shahnaz ;
Kostermans,Cornelis P. ;
Laviolette,Luc
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