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Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) is the US government’s development finance institution, mobilizing private capital to address development challenges and advance US foreign policy priorities. CGD analysis of its structure, guidelines and investment decisions equips policy makers with evidence and ideas to make an effective institution ever stronger. Our work on how to scale up OPIC has broad bipartisan support in Congress.
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