Publication: IFC and Czechia, Partners in Private Sector Development
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2024-03-19
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IFC is actively exploring business opportunities with Czech companies interested in co-investments in emerging markets in partnership with the Czech Ministry of Finance. Czechia is a donor to IFC. In December 2022, the Czech Ministry of Finance signed a framework agreement with IFC to establish the Czechia-IFC Partnership Trust Fund, with initial contribution of one million to support IFC’s advisory and upstream activities in Ukraine under the Global Food Security Platform. This is the first Czech trust fund with IFC.
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“International Finance Corporation. 2024. IFC and Czechia, Partners in Private Sector Development. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/41219 License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO .”
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