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Transforming Brazilian Business. The Sao Paulo PPP demonstrates the potential of leveraging private sector investment and helping to optimize public resources. The project, as structured, is helping transform the sector in fiscally, environmentally, and socially sustainable ways, crowding in private sector financing and management solutions.

The Bahia Suburbio Hospital project, launched with IFC’s support in 2009 as Brazil’s first health public-private partnership, offers similar lessons for the global health industry. KPMG said the new 280-bed hospital dramatically improves emergency hospital services in one of the country’s most underserved districts.

IFC is a leader in the water and sanitation sector in emerging markets across the globe. This project is part of IFC's Cities Initiative, which combines investment and advisory services to help municipal authorities build climate-resilient, inclusive and sustainable cities. Since 2004, IFC has invested and mobilized over US$9 billion in more ...

São Paulo, Brazil, August 17, 2021 — The International Finance Corporation (IFC) committed a record $2.852 billion in the Fiscal Year 2021 to support private sector investments in Brazil, as well as to help tackle the effects of the pandemic in the country and assist companies to preserve jobs and stay in business.

The private sector has a key role to play in the production and distribution of basic products like food, cleaning products, health supplies. The better we deal with the pandemic, in terms of protecting firms and workers and those out of work, the better positioned we will be for recovery. Latin America does not have the luxury to waste resources.

The agricultural sector in Brazil struggles with an intensive production system and poor quality top soil. This creates the need for tailor-made fertilizer solutions based on farm-level soil and crop needs. Cibra provides farmers and farmer cooperatives with straights or precise blends of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, as well as micro ...

students, in Brazil. Ser is a private, for-profit, network of post-secondary education institutions in Brazil focused on offering relevant education at a cost that price-sensitive students can afford. It is a leader in the North and Northeast regions, a traditionally under-served market in the least developed region of the country.

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 19, 1999 — The International Finance Corporation is making its first investment in Brazil's healthcare industry in a project that will enable healthcare providers and financiers – such as hospitals and insurance companies – to offer better quality and more efficient services to patients throughout the country.

Washington, D.C., October 19, 2001 —The International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, will invest US$40.0 million in the Sepetiba Tecon container terminal in the Rio de Janeiro state, which will help improve the international competitiveness of the entire port sector in the Southeast container market in Brazil.

: Brazil’s government asked IFC to help privatize the utility and bring in international expertise to overhaul its performance, invest in its infrastructure, and provide reliable power for residents of Goias State. Results: Enel, a global leader in purchased 95% of CELG-D for $706 million – the first privatization in Brazil in 15 years.