2/29/2024 0 Comments Andy serwer![]() We ensure that the digital gap that exists between developing countries and less developed country is narrowing. We are financing also the digital economy. So all the companies which are led by women receive our financing. We know that women have less access to financing in developing countries than men. But what we are doing is trying to really help them blue the production and ensure that the marine debris that we are seeing are disappearing from some of the water.īut we are doing other things. We are issuing bonds We are helping companies in- for instance, I just came back from Thailand where we are giving a- financing a blue bond for Indorama, which is a company, an Indian company. So all this investment from the private sector is to improve people's life and to make sure that a country are going in a sustainable but also inclusive way.ĪNDY SERWER: Now when you're talking about the private sector, are you talking about US banks, hedge funds, private equity, or international banks? What specifically do you mean by private investment? We bring them additional resources to make these investments much more attractive.Īnd at the end of the day, we are an institution which is interested in development. What we're trying to do- what we're doing is we are bringing private sector to look at opportunities in developing countries. MAKHTAR DIOP: IFC is an institution which is lending $32 billion a year, roughly 1/3 of it going to climate-change activities, which is a premier institution for emerging economies and developing countries. Thank you so much.ĪNDY SERWER: So tell us a little bit about what you do, the work you do, and what the trends are that you're seeing in developing countries given the economic headwinds that we're seeing right now. I'm here with Makhtar Diop, who is the managing director of the International Finance Corporation, which is the part of the World Bank that encourages private-sector investment in developing countries. For more, our editor in chief Andrew Serwer is back with us with a guest.
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