IFC at an Inflection Point : Time for a New Business Delivery Model?

As International Finance Corporation (IFC) continues to further scale up its operations, seeking to deliver more development impact, could it be in danger of inadvertently becoming an increasingly slower and higher-cost delivery mechanism, and thus...

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Main Author:	Zaki, Fares T.
Format:	Brief
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	AGRIBUSINESS CIVIL SOCIETY CONSUMER SURPLUS DECENTRALIZATION DECISION MAKING DECISION MAKING DEVELOPMENT FINANCE DEVELOPMENT IMPACT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY DISPOSABLE INCOME ECONOMIC GROWTH FRONTIER IBRD IFC MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES MULTIPLIER EFFECTS ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE POVERTY REDUCTION PRIORITIES PRIVATE SECTORS ROAD ROADS SUPERVISION SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TRANSPORT
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/12/17385473/ifc-inflection-point-time-new-business-delivery-model http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17055

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description	As International Finance Corporation (IFC) continues to further scale up its operations, seeking to deliver more development impact, could it be in danger of inadvertently becoming an increasingly slower and higher-cost delivery mechanism, and thus a less relevant change agent? This smart lesson, growing out of the author's observations during 32 years with IFC, proposes an alternative business delivery model with particular relevance to fragile states and frontier regions in middle income countries, in hopes of sparking a lively and productive debate around how IFC defines, delivers and measures success in its poverty reduction effort.
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title	IFC at an Inflection Point : Time for a New Business Delivery Model?
title_short	IFC at an Inflection Point : Time for a New Business Delivery Model?
title_full	IFC at an Inflection Point : Time for a New Business Delivery Model?
title_fullStr	IFC at an Inflection Point : Time for a New Business Delivery Model?
title_full_unstemmed	IFC at an Inflection Point : Time for a New Business Delivery Model?
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