Cambodia needs broader access to finance, as well as strong financial institutions that would make loans available to low-income people and micro entrepreneurs. This is a story of how IFC has worked with...
Despite demonstrating significant economic growth in the last decade, Albania remains one of the poorest nations in Europe. Along with other factors, the country’s development is constrained by an insecure...
In 2010 IFC launched Russia Residential Energy Efficiency Project, which works through Russian banks to finance the energy efficient modernization in the housing sector. The project aims to stimulate investment...
Founded in 1990, ENDA Inter-Arabe (ENDA) has risen to become the largest microfinance institution (MFI) in Tunisia, and one of the most successful MFIs in the Middle East and North Africa. Yet in 2011...
Microfinance has been a lifeline for many in Bosnia and Herzegovina, playing a critical role in helping people; particularly women, recover from the conflict. Yet the rapid growth of microfinance industry...
India has one of the world’s worst shortfalls of affordable housing, with a gap valued at $67 billion. In the country, where nearly 30 percent of the population is living below the poverty line and it...
Once the world’s leader, India’s microfinance industry went through a severe crisis, when the state of Andhra Pradesh witnessed a mass default of microfinance borrowers in 2010. Combined with allegations...
Peru’s microfinance industry has been developing rapidly over the last two decades, providing the country’s low-income population with an opportunity to escape poverty. Yet micro-lending in Peru has largely...