API Explorer

IFC Advisory Projects - Access to Finance

Data as of Dec 21, 2024

Private sector development requires more than just finance. Experience shows the powerful role advisory services can play in unlocking investment and helping businesses expand and create jobs.

To help the private sector in emerging markets, IFC provides advice, problem solving, and training to companies, industries, and governments. Our experience shows that companies need more than financial investment to thrive—they need a regulatory environment that enables entrepreneurship, and advice on business best practices. Our work includes advising national and local governments on how to improve their investment climate and strengthen basic infrastructure. Governments account for around half of our advisory projects. We also help investment clients improve corporate governance and become more sustainable.

We offer advice through nearly 1,100 Advisory Services staff in 85 offices across 73 countries. Funding comes from donor partners, IFC, and client contributions. Learn more at http://www1.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/as_ext_content/what+we+do/advisory+services? .

Important Note

We recommend users to adopt API service option only for datasets exceeding a million records. For other datasets, kindly use the JSON link available on the "Actions and Tools" section which enables extraction of all the records at once.

Parameters

Parameter	Description	API FIELD NAME	Data Type
Disclosure Date	Date when the record was first disclosed.	disclosure_date	DATE
Project Number	Numeric code that uniquely identifies a project.	project_number	STRING
Project Name	Name of an advisory project - discrete unit of work associated with provision of service to a client.	project_name	STRING
Project URL	Link to a project page on IFC Projects website.	project_url	STRING
Country	Country where investment and/or advisory services are executed and/or utilized.	country	STRING
IFC Country Code	Country code according to IFC Code list.	ifc_country_code	STRING
IFC Region	Geographic region. The term "World" describes projects spanning multiple regions.	ifc_region	STRING
Business Line		business_line	STRING
Estimated Total Budget ($)	Project budget includes all project-funded activities.	estimated_total_budget__	NUMBER
Department	World Bank Group organizational entity within a Vice Presidency, comprised of one or more units and/or divisions.	department	STRING
Status	Identifies standing of a project.	status	STRING
IFC Approval Date	Date on which a project was approved by Board/Management in accordance with Operational Procedures.	ifc_approval_date	DATE
Projected Start Date	Project estimated start date.	projected_start_date	DATE
WB Country Code	Country code according to WB Code list. Might be different from ISO codes	wb_country_code	STRING
As of Date	Date when this snapshot was taken.	as_of_date	DATE
Dataset ID	ID of the associated Dataset		STRING
Top	Number of records to fetch		NUMBER
Skip	Skip the records from the ascending order		NUMBER

Please Note:

This API will support up to a maximum of 1000 records per request / page.
The date format for all date fields should be DD-MMM-YYYY.
Selection will allow for multiple parameters E.g (Country = India|Afghanistan).
The filters for blank and non-blank should be IS NULL and IS NOT NULL E.g (Country = IS NULL, Country = IS NOT NULL)

Dataset Identifier

DS01083

Data Provided By

World Bank Group

Owner

Finances One

Date Created

Jul 31, 2013

Last Updated

Dec 21, 2024

Licensing and Attribution

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Additional Information

Type

Time Series

Row Label

Project Number

Source

World Bank Group

Periodicity

Day

Granularity

Project

Provenance

official

Update Frequency

Daily

Economy Coverage

World

Range Column

disclosure_date, ifc_approval_date, as_of_date

General Access Options

Query tool,API,Mobile App,Bulk download

Language

English

Update Schedule

Daily updates when new records are available

Data As Of

Dec 21, 2024

Data Last Updated

Dec 21, 2024

Metadata Last Updated

Aug 02, 2024

Scope

Institution

IFC

Topics

CategoryProjects

Tags

JavaScript makes it super simple to fetch from an API endpoint.

fetch('https://datacatalogapi.worldbank.org/dexapps/fone/api/view?viewId=DS01083&top=100&type=json')
    .then(response => {
        if (!response.ok) {
            throw new Error('');
        }
        return response.json();
    })
    .then(data => {
        // Do something with the response data
        // console.log(data);
    })
    .catch(error => {
        console.error('Error:', error);
    });

Python for easily work with data.

import requests
url = 'https://datacatalogapi.worldbank.org/dexapps/fone/api/view?viewId=DS01083&top=100&type=json'
try:
    response = requests.get(url)
    response.raise_for_status()  # Raise an exception for 4XX and 5XX status codes
    data = response.json()  # Parse the JSON response
    print(data)  # Print the response data
except requests.RequestException as e:
    print(f'Error: {e}')

PowerShell code to extract data.

$url = 'https://datacatalogapi.worldbank.org/dexapps/fone/api/view?viewId=DS01083&top=100&type=json'
try {
    $response = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $url -Method Get
    # Print the response
    Write-Output $response
} catch {
    # Print error message if request fails
    Write-Error "Error: $_"
}

The following snippet brings data into your application.

require 'net/http'
url = URI('https://datacatalogapi.worldbank.org/dexapps/fone/api/view?viewId=DS01083&top=100&type=json')
begin
response = Net::HTTP.get_response(url)
if response.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess)
    puts response.body
else
    puts "Error: #{response.code} - #{response.message}"
end
rescue StandardError => e
puts "Error: #{e.message}"
end

Below code that makes usage with .NET more natural.

using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
class Program
{
    static async Task Main(string[] args)
    {
        var response = await new HttpClient().GetStringAsync("https://datacatalogapi.worldbank.org/dexapps/fone/api/view?viewId=DS01083&top=100&type=json");
        Console.WriteLine(response);
    }
}

JAVA for easily work with data.

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        URL url = new URL("https://datacatalogapi.worldbank.org/dexapps/fone/api/view?viewId=DS01083&top=100&type=json");
        HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
        connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
        String line;
        StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();
        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
            response.append(line);
        }
        reader.close();
        System.out.println(response.toString());
    }
}

The following snippet brings data into your application.

shell "curl -X GET https://datacatalogapi.worldbank.org/dexapps/fone/api/view?viewId=DS01083&top=100&type=json"

PHP code to brings the data.

<?php
// Specify the URL you want to send the GET request to
$url = "https://datacatalogapi.worldbank.org/dexapps/fone/api/view?viewId=DS01083&top=100&type=json";
// Initialize cURL session
$curl = curl_init();
// Set the cURL options
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Execute cURL session
$response = curl_exec($curl);
// Close cURL session
curl_close($curl);
// Print the response
echo $response;
?>

Copy and paste the following to import this dataset into Stata.

clear
. import delimited "https://datacatalogapi.worldbank.org/dexapps/fone/api/view?viewId=DS01083&top=100&type=json"

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IFC Advisory Projects - Access to Finance

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