Empowering Ethiopia’s Entrepreneurs through Trade Finance

Discover how IFC’s Global Trade Finance Program (GTFP) is helping Ethiopian banks sustain livelihoods in rural and conflict-affected areas.

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MSME Day

Discover how IFC is growing investments in medium- and high-growth enterprises while supporting MSMEs.

Thinking Out of the Box: Six Decades of Innovation, Jobs, and Growth in Pakistan

An immersive story that describes how the Packages Group in Pakistan, an IFC client since the 1950s, became one of Pakistan’s most established conglomerates.

Empowering Türkiye’s Women Entrepreneurs: Driving Change and Creating Opportunities

Read how women entrepreneurs in Türkiye are transforming their industries and creating jobs.

What We Do

A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.

Products and Services

We provide investment, advice, and asset management — offerings that are mutually reinforcing and can be tailored to a client’s specific needs.

Sectors and Expertise

We apply our financial resources, technical expertise, global experience, and innovative thinking to help our partners overcome financial, operational, and other challenges.

Our Impact

IFC works with clients to create the opportunities which help the private sector mobilize solutions and finance to solve development challenges.

IFC at a glance

IFC — a member of the World Bank Group — is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities in developing countries.

In fiscal year 2024, IFC committed a record $56 billion to private companies and financial institutions in developing countries, leveraging private sector solutions and mobilizing private capital to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. 

  • 62.5 Million
    People connected to the internet
  • 11.3 Million
    People supplied with power
  • $226.5 Billion
    In Trade Finance Volume
  • $516.9 Billion
    In Impact from SME Loans

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IFC’s impact spans more than 100 nations. We empower entrepreneurs all over the world, turning bold ideas into engines of inclusive growth creating millions of jobs, uplifting lives, and transforming communities.

Featured Publications

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How Private Capital—By and For Women—Can Be Good for Business

Report

Learn how private equity and venture capital can drive funding to women-owned and -led businesses by having more women at the investment decision-making table.

Venture Capital and the Rise of Africa's Tech Startups

EMERGING MARKET INSIGHTS

Africa’s fledgling startup scene is seeing breakneck growth, slowed only by a lack of funding. This offers new opportunities to investors looking for returns in untapped, fast-growing markets.

Efficiency and Tech Upgrades May Counter Falling FDI in Developing Economies

Research Note

Global demand for technologies that increase energy efficiency, reduce pollution, and respond to shifting weather patterns may ease a broad-based decline in foreign direct investment flows to developing countries.