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# Annual Meetings 2025

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### Jobs: The Engine for Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean

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The food system employs millions in emerging economies. Across the region, we help small farmers boost productivity and jobs.

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### Jobs, Agriculture, and Growth

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Key moments, events, outcomes, and more from this year’s Annual Meetings.

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### Annual Meetings Plenary

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Watch Replay: Ajay Banga, Kristalina Georgieva, and Olavo Correia reflect on global development goals.

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## 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.

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## 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.

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## 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.

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### Our Impact

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

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# 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 2025, IFC committed a record $71.7 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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## See where we work

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.

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## Featured Publications

### Innovation in Green Technologies

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Emerging market economies are claiming a rising share of trade in products associated with the new technologies that help reduce pollution, limit greenhouse gas emissions, and help mitigate the impact of extreme weather.

### Which Firms Create More Jobs?

EMERGING MARKET INSIGHTS

High-growth firms, especially young ones, create up to two-thirds of new jobs. These firms are often in their first five years and add workers at a fast pace.

### Financing Firm Growth: The Role of Capital in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

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New World Bank Group research shows that over 30 years, equity and bond markets in developing economies have driven $4 trillion in capital, 5% more jobs, and faster growth.

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