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CDC Group is the UK’s development finance institution, wholly owned by the UK Government. CDC has invested in Africa and Asia for over 70 years. By investing for impact CDC aims to help countries in Africa and Asia to build thriving communities that provide sustainable opportunities for all citizens.

CDC takes a flexible approach and provides capital in all its forms including equity debt, mezzanine and guarantees to meet businesses’ needs and achieve development impact. CDC has net assets of £5.8bn. Find out more

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The Center for Global Development (CGD) works to reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world's top decision makers. CGD strives for excellence and intellectual rigor in the belief that global prosperity starts with smart policy based on evidence.

Its work is nonpartisan and its recommendations are not influenced by funders. CGD is currently focused on the following areas critical to development progress:

Global Health Policy
Migration, Displacement, and Humanitarian Policy
Sustainable Development Finance
Technology
Education
Governments and Development

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The EBRD is inves-ng in changing people’s lives from central Europe to Central Asia, the Western Balkans and the southern and eastern Mediterranean region. Since 1991, we have invested over €125 billion in more than 5,100 projects.

With an emphasis on working with the private sector, we invest in projects, engage in policy dialogue and provide technical advice which fosters innovation and builds modern economies that are competitive, well-governed, green, inclusive, resilient and integrated. The Bank is owned by 69 countries as well as the EU and the EIB.” The parts of EBRD engaging in the network are the Office of the Chief Economist and the Corporate Strategy departments. Details on analytical work can be found through the link below: https://www.ebrd.com/what-we-do/economic-research-and-data.html

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IDB Invest, a member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, is a multilateral development bank committed to promoting the economic development of its member countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) through the private sector.

IDB Invest finances sustainable enterprises and projects to help secure financial outcomes and maximize the region’s economic, social, and environmental development. IDB Invest provides innovative financial solutions and advisory services to meet the needs of the private sector across various industries. The Development Effectiveness Division oversees IDB Invest’s Impact Management Framework, an end-to-end series of tools that support investments throughout their lifecycle, integrating impact and financial sustainability into portfolio management. As part of this role, IDB Invest produces knowledge products to guide the origination of projects across different sectors and conducts in-depth causal evaluations of selected investments. By generating and sharing rigorous evidence about what works and does not work from its investments, IDB Invest seeks to guide private sector development in the LAC region and help bolster the effectiveness of the broader impact investing industry as it continues to grow. Find out more

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The International Finance Corporation—a member of the World Bank Group—is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. The IFC works with thousands of businesses worldwide, using capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities, end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity.

The IFC Economics and Private Sector Development Vice Presidency serves as the analytical hub of the organization with workstreams on measuring development impact, assessing country-specific and sector-specific opportunities and constraints to private-sector led growth, as well as research-oriented thought leadership workstreams on firms, technology, development finance, and impact investment. Find out more

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The International Growth Centre (IGC) aims to promote sustainable and inclusive growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. The IGC directs a global network of leading researchers and in-country teams in Africa and South Asia, and works closely with partner governments to generate high quality research and policy advice on key growth hallenges. IGC research focuses on building an effective state, increasing productivity in the private sector, making cities more productive and inclusive and promoting access to energy – with the underlying aim of unlocking structural change and lifting people out of poverty.

The Firms, Trade and Productivity research programme at the IGC focuses on understanding the microprocesses needed to increasing productivity through structural changes in firms’ capabilities, the functioning of markets and how firms interact with world markets. For more information on the scope of this research agenda, please refer to our Evidence Paper (here is the link for this https://www.theigc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IGC-Firms-evidence-paper-December- 2019.pdf) and the IGC’s Research Strategy (here is the link for this https://www.theigc.org/wp- content/uploads/2019/12/IGC-Research-Strategy-December-2019webfinal.pdf).

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ODI is an independent, global think tank. Our vision is a sustainable and peaceful world in which every person thrives. We harness the power of evidence and ideas through research and partnership to confront challenges, develop solutions and create change.

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The Wheeler Institute for Business and Development at London Business School was created to research and amplify the role of business in tackling some of the hardest challenges in social and economic development. We aim to improve lives through identifying what needs to change; linking and applying relevant business research and expertise; and through accelerating the adoption and scaling of solutions. We facilitate collaboration between local communities, business, policy makers, and researchers in identifying and promoting solutions.”

Our contact: Wheeler Institute wheelerinstitute@london.edu

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Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD) is a member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) group based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Enabling enterprise, building prosperity and helping sustainable development

Since 1999, ICD supports the economic development of its 55-member countries through the provision of Islamic finance for private sector projects. ICD also promotes competitiveness and entrepreneurship, provides advisory solutions to governments and private sector entities and encourages cross-border investments via a tailored suite of product and service offerings. The shareholders of ICD are the IsDB, 55 countries and five public financial institutions. ICD’s Strategy, Policy and Research Department prepares policy insights and research papers on major challenges and issues faced by its member countries’ private sector and entrepreneurship, and its Development Effectiveness Department measures and reports the Corporation’s development results with the aim of maximising ICD’s contribution in enhancing the factors and conditions which enable member countries to achieve their development goals. Details can be found at https://icd-ps.org/en/publications

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The EBRD is inves-ng in changing people’s lives from central Europe to Central Asia, the Western Balkans and the southern and eastern Mediterranean region. Since 1991, we have invested over €125 billion in more than 5,100 projects.

IDB Invest, a member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, is a multilateral development bank committed to promoting the economic development of its member countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) through the private sector.

ODI is an independent, global think tank. Our vision is a sustainable and peaceful world in which every person thrives. We harness the power of evidence and ideas through research and partnership to confront challenges, develop solutions and create change.

Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD) is a member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) group based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Enabling enterprise, building prosperity and helping sustainable development

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