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Can You Fight Poverty With a Five-Star Hotel?
Submitted by Persona non grata on Sun, 2013-01-06 00:00
“[M]ost IFC investment projects generate satisfactory returns but do not provide evidence of identifiable opportunities for the poor to participate in, contribute to, or benefit from the economic activities that the project supports,” the report concluded. In fact, it said, only 13 percent of 500 projects studied “had objectives with an explicit focus on poor people,” and even those that did, the report found, had a “limited”impact.
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