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December 17, 2020
Last week, DFC held its fourth and final board meeting concluding its first year in operation. DFC approved close to $8 billion in 2020, a significant rise from OPIC annual program which stood at $3-4 billion in recent years. This year the institution also deployed its new equity instrument to...
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December 03, 2020
As development agencies transition from their immediate COVID-19 response towards a medium-term strategy, their leaders see a clear need to rethink some key aspects of their underlying business models. The Development Leaders Conference brought together heads of bilateral development agencies a...
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November 05, 2020
The only way to scale up the global financial response to meet the imminent needs of developing countries is by using all parts of the development finance system—and by making it work much more effectively as a system. This means the global multilateral institutions, of course, but it also includes ...
Blog Post
October 08, 2020
While reflecting on DFC’s progress in implementing its core development mandate, and confronting the challenges posed the COVID-19 pandemic, we reached out to Senator Chris Coons (D-DE), a lead sponsor of the BUILD Act and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We asked Senator Coons fo...