Tuesday, April 25, 2006

International Corporate Governance and the World Bank


Apparently, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the investment-arm of the World Bank, requires the implementation of certain good corporate governance practices as a major condition in its international lending.

What are these good corporate governance practices? World Bank/IFC does not throw out the words lightly. The World Bank and IMF have done detailed corporate governance assessments on 15 countries and evaluated them on the basis of the OECD principles of corporate governance.

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