Development Finance

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BRIEF

Foreign Assistance Agency Brief: Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)

April 11, 2017
Since 1971, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has served as the US government’s development finance institution. OPIC works to mobilize private capital to address development challenges while advancing US foreign policy priorities—furthering strategic, development, econo...
ESSAY

Meeting Sub-Saharan Africa’s Frontier Market Financing Needs: More Is Better from the IMF

March 09, 2017
An energizing development for IMF staff working on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) over the past decade was the region's clear growth uptick and progress in reducing poverty relative to earlier periods. A number of African countries graduated to lower middle-income country (MIC) status and became &quot...