The International Finance Corporation (IFC) annual report continues an approach pioneered last year, combining information on the investments and advisory services, sustainability, development effectiveness, and donor partnerships. The report covers fiscal 2008 (July 1, 2007, through June 30,...

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) expanded its sustainable development impact through private sector project financing operations and advisory activities. This year the Board of Directors approved a number of investments and maintained close...

More than 200 million people in the developing world were out of work this year. Over 1 billion are hungry, while millions more are confronting the threat that climate change poses. The United Nations estimates that 884 million people don't have safe drinking water and more than 2.6 billion...

Global apparel supply chains are often associated with poor working conditions. However, Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.), one of the world's largest brand-name apparel companies, recognizes that worker wellbeing is fundamentally linked to successful business outcomes, and that a healthy and...

The purpose of Working with Smallholders handbook is to enable the development of more sustainable, resilient and productive supply chains for agribusinesses and to illustrate the substantial development impact. Smallholder farmers are both an opportunity and a challenge for food and...

The mapping of the production and export supply chain of cheese has been implemented within the framework of the International Finance Corporation's (IFC) Armenia Investment Climate Reform Project, which is implemented by the Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice of the World Bank Group...

Supply chains have been disrupted and altered over the past years in an unprecedented way as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and megatrends such as emerging technologies, sustainability imperatives and the reconfiguration of globalization. Companies are now building on recent learnings to...

In May 2015, the Boyner Group, in a joint initiative with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), launched the Boyner Group's good for business program, working with female managers and owners of companies that are suppliers to the Boyner Group. The program is part of Boyner Group's broader...