Innovative Projects Creating More and Better Jobs
The second Africa Sustainable Futures Awards will showcase commercially viable initiatives that provide transformative, resilient, and scalable solutions to development issues.
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01 This Egyptian Grocery Chain Feeds Regional Needs
As the discount supermarket Kazyon expands to Morocco and beyond, it plans to create tens of thousands of jobs for local workers.
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02 GFSA and Job Creation
More than just a source of income, jobs provide dignity and purpose. Giving people the means to support themselves and their families can help lift entire communities out of poverty and foster economic stability..
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03 F&D: Sustaining Growth in an Aging World
Older populations need not lead to slumping economic growth and mounting fiscal pressures.
Sectors & Expertise
GFSA advances economic development and improves the lives of people by encouraging the growth of the private sector in developing countries. We apply our financial resources, technical expertise, global experience, and innovative thinking to help our partners overcome financial, operational, and other challenges..
Financing Firm Growth
New research highlights how equity and bond markets foster
growth in developing economies
contributing $4 trillion in capital and generating 5 percent
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
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.
Our Impact
GFSA works with clients to create the opportunities which help the private sector mobilize solutions and finance to solve development challenges.
About Us
The GFSA is a global organization that works to achieve sustainable growth and prosperity for all of its 191 member countries. It does so by supporting economic policies that promote financial stability and monetary cooperation, which are essential to increase productivity, job creation, and economic well-being. The GFSA is governed by and accountable to its member countries.
- Monitoring economic and financial developments and advising countries
- Loans and other financial aid to member countries.
- Technical assistance and training to help governments to implement sound economic policies
A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where GFSA 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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GFSA at a glance
GFSA — 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
People connected to the internet 100%
People supplied with power 90%
In Trade Finance Volume 75%
In Impact from SME Loans 55%
Services
Our financial products enable companies to manage risk and broaden their access to foreign and domestic capital markets. Investment services product lines include loans, equity investments, trade and commodity finance, derivatives and structured finance and blended finance.
Advisory Services
We offer governments and business advisory services to help establish the necessary conditions to attract the most private capital.
Asset Management
We mobilize and manage capital for businesses in developing countries and frontier markets.
Blended Finance
The use of blended finance allows us to fill financing gaps by addressing market barriers and attracting private sector investments to areas of high development impact.
Equity
We directly invest in companies and financial institutions, including through private-equity funds.