IFC, SECO Expand Partnership to Promote Sustainable Investment in Emerging Economies

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) announced today a new program to spur private sector investment in developing countries by leveraging sound environmental and social (E&S) risk management and corporate governance practices. The new Integrated Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) Program will support private sector entities in several countries in Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and South Asia with advice regarding corporate structures – such as controls and board oversight – to…

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