= (IFC)

An international investment bank affiliated to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD or World Bank), founded in 1956 to make loans to the private sector. IFC was set up to broaden the scope of IBRD, which lends directly only for projects in the public sector or with government guarantees, but lends to IFC to fund loans to the private sector.

• differentiation, product
• diffusion of innovations
• dilemma, prisoners'
• diminishing marginal product
• diminishing marginal rate of substitution
• diminishing marginal utility
• diminishing marginal utility of money
• diminishing marginal utility of wealth
• diminishing returns, law of
• direct investment abroad
• direct investment, foreign
• direct labour
• director
• directorates, interlocking
• direct tax
• dirigisme
• dirty floating
• discomfort index
• discount
• discounted cash flow
• discounted present value
• discount house
• discounting the future
• discount rate
• discount window