An estimated 4.5 billion people in developing countries live at the base of the pyramid (BOP), surviving on low-income and lacking access to goods, services, and economic opportunities. Workers at the...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which began as a health crisis in early 2020, has rapidly evolved to become an unprecedented economic crisis affecting global, national, and regional economies and...
This paper presents empirical evidence on the cyclicality of investments made by the International Finance Corporation over the past 20 years and explores their implications for the International Finance...
Low- and middle-income country governments are increasingly tapping the global debt capital markets. This is increasing the amount of finance available for development, but at a considerably higher cost...
This 100th EM Compass note explains why it is important to ‘create markets’ to promote development, and how development finance institutions and impact fund managers can draw on IFC’s Anticipated Impact...