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IFC and The MasterCard Foundation Launch Partnership to Improve Financial Services for Millions in Africa
IFC and The MasterCard Foundation launched a $37.4 million partnership to increase access to financial services for an estimated 5.3 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa.
A New Collaboration at IFC Aims to Enhance Access to Financial Services for Small Businesses
IFC launched the SME Finance Forum -- a G-20 initiative designed to improve access to financial resources for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and catalyze effective SME-financing tools.
In Papua New Guinea, Mobile Banking Brings Savings and Safety to Farmers
For farmers in Papua New Guinea’s province of East New Britain, harvest time can be days of plenitude – and peril. Farmers deliver hessian bags brimming with cocoa or copra (dried coconut meat which is processed for oil) to the local commodity
IFC Helps Microfinance Reach Entrepreneurs in Rural Tajikistan, Including Women
IFC is providing a local currency loan equivalent to about $5 million to IMON, the leading microfinance institution in Tajikistan, to increase access to finance for the country’s poorest and most vulnerable people, many of them women.
IFC Brings Mobile Financial Services to Remote Areas of Latin America, the Caribbean
IFC is working with three partners to address one of the biggest challenges in getting mobile financial services to underserved populations in remote areas of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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