While the World Bank’s private sector investments help to generate growth, their benefits do not trickle down to the poor, an internal audit reveals.
The audit by the Independent Evaluation Group urges the International Finance Corp., the bank’s private sector arm, to rethink how its investments can help the poor.
“The link between growth and poverty reduction is not automatic or universal,” Ade Freeman, the report’s lead author, told Bloomberg in a phone interview.
IFC should “make explicit the assumption through which growth leads to poverty reduction,” and “do a better job of tracking the poverty outcomes and impacts from its interventions.”
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