DATABASE - IFC HEALTH PROJECTS

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"Classification": we identified 5 main categories of investment in health.

• Manufacturing: investment (or advisory services) in medical products manufacturing, like medicines, medical equipment, PPE, and anything directly related to their supply chain.

• Private healthcare: investment (or advisory services) in private healthcare providers, like private hospitals and clinics.

• Private insurance and financing solutions: investment (or advisory services) in services that facilitate private healthcare financing (mainly private healthcare insurance).

• (Financial) Intermediary: investment (or advisory services) in financial intermediaries, like equity funds, that invest only in the health sector.

• Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs): investment (or advisory services) in Public-Private Partnerships in the health sector. These are mainly advisory services.

"Sector": sector of the investment according to the IFC's database. While these are all health-related projects, they might not always fall into the same sector. Eg. while many projects fall into the "Medical and Diagnostic Services" sector, others might fall into the "SME Finance Sector", or in the "Equity Fund" sector, or a few other sectors.

"Blended finance": according to the OECD, blended finance is “the strategic use of development finance for the mobilisation of additional finance towards sustainable development in developing countries.” This section identifies how the IFC mobilised additional private investment in each specific project.