WASHINGTON, DC, May 14, 2007 - Within one year of their implementation, IFC’s environmental and social standards have emerged as the global benchmark in project financing. The standards, which are the ...

IFC Launches new environmental facilities, public funds will catalyze private secotor in emerging markets The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector lending arm of the World Bank ...

The FINANCIAL — IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has invested $4 million in MTI Environment Group Ltd., one of the leading players in China’s sludge composting and odor control market, to ...

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today received an environmental excellence award from the District of Columbia, reflecting IFC’s commitment to addressing global environmental challenges and ...

The World Bank has agreed to suspend International Finance Corporation (IFC) funding of the oil palm sector pending the development of safeguards to ensure that lending doesn’t cause social or ...

International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector investment arm of the World Bank Group, proposes an equity investment of $25 million or upto 20 per cent of the total commitments of the ...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has highlighted the need for a business-friendly environment to foster sustainable economic growth, highlighting the private sector’s critical role in ...

Over the past 10 years, the World Bank’s private investment arm has sunk more than $1.8 billion into major livestock and factory farming companies across the world. Of the total, $686 million went to ...