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A Policy-Based Guarantee from IBRD helps Serbia access new financial markets and achieve better borrowing terms to support continued progress in structural reforms and improvements in its business environment. > more |
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A customized co-financing package which blends three sources of financing from IBRD, the Clean Technology Fund and the Global Environmental Facility provides a lower overall funding cost for Mexico's investment in residential energy efficiency programs. > more |
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Guatemala uses IBRD’s committed credit line for catastrophe risk, the Cat DDO, to finance part of the reconstruction and other expenses related to two major natural disasters in 2010. > more |
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Blending of two sources of financing provides a very competitive funding cost for a project to overhaul Mexico’s urban transport system with a view to moving towards a lower carbon growth path. > more [En Español] |
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IBRD’s contingent credit line, Development Policy Loan (DPL) with a Deferred Drawdown Option (DDO), helps Indonesia boost investor confidence and mobilize funding from the capital markets during the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. > more |
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Malawi addresses drought risk and its impact on food security through index-based weather derivatives intermediated by IBRD. > more |
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A multi-peril multi-region cat bond issued using the World Bank’s MultiCat Program has allowed Mexico to transfer
a pool of disaster risk to the market and reduce potential pressure of disaster response on public budgets. > more |
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Cat DDO gives Costa Rica access to funds to provide assistance to people affected by the January 2009 earthquake without hampering the continuity of other development programs. > more |
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IBRD loan’s customized repayment schedule reduces and stabilizes Brazilian state Rio Grande De Sul’s debt service payments. > more |
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Mexico’s federal mortgage corporation, Sociedad Hipotecaria Federal (SHF), strengthens its balance sheet and achieves a more stable risk profile with IBRD financing and risk management tools. > more |
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A customized loan from IBRD allows Colombia’s national student loan agency, ICETEX, to reduce low-income students’ annual financial burden and manage its cash flow and currency risks. > more |
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Local currency financing from IBRD helps Uruguay manage its foreign currency exposure in the absence of a well-developed swap market. > more |
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Mexican sub-national governments secure low-cost local currency financing from IBRD, and eliminate currency risk for themselves, the domestic development bank, and the federal government. > more |
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Blending resources from different lenders and donors allows China to on-lend to provinces at lower interest rates to expand the diagnosis and control of tuberculosis. > more |
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World Bank helps Morocco mitigate currency risk on liabilities owed to a third party. > more |