Development Finance

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CGD NOTE

The Dangers of Deal Making for Development

January 17, 2017
Private sector development has long been viewed as essential for economic growth in developing countries, and the US role in promoting it has focused mostly on how developing country governments could best set a policy environment that made it possible. But let’s consider the risks of con...
Blog Post

Development Finance Institutions "a Proven Theory of Change" – Podcast with Heads of OPIC and CDC

January 10, 2017
OPIC and CDC are among the largest bilateral development finance institutions (DFIs). They are designed to use their funds to attract more private capital into developing markets through, for example, lending or insuring projects against political risk. CEOs Elizabeth Littlefield and Diana Noble dis...
PODCAST

Development Finance Institutions "a Proven Theory of Change" – Heads of OPIC and CDC

January 10, 2017
OPIC and CDC are among the largest bilateral development finance institutions (DFIs). They are designed to use their funds to attract more private capital into developing markets through, for example, lending or insuring projects against political risk. CEOs Elizabeth Littlefield and Diana Noble dis...
Blog Post

$50 Billion and Three Lessons from Development Finance CEOs

October 11, 2016
Last week, AEI, CSIS, and CGD hosted a terrific forum with the heads of the British, German, Norwegian, and American development finance institutions (DFIs). It was billed as “$50 billion in one room,” a reference to the vast amounts of capital that these organizations bring to...