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CGD NOTES
How Might Think Tanks Make Real Things Happen? Lessons from the Creation of the DFC
Todd Moss
April 16, 2020
A new US government agency began as scrawl on a napkin in a think tank seminar room just off Dupont Circle in Washington, DC. Fast forward nine years, in early 2020, the US International Development Finance Corporation was born.