USDFC Monitor

USDFC Monitor

The USDFC Monitor was a platform for information, reasoned analysis, practical recommendations, and evidence-based discussion of important issues that faced the United States’ new full-service development finance institution. Drawing inspiration from a similar endeavor launched by CGD to track and inform the early days of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the USDFC Monitor aimed to provide a mix of timely commentary and in-depth analysis.

The USDFC Monitor was part of CGD’s US Development Policy initiative that seeks to broaden the US government’s approach to development while strengthening existing foreign assistance tools.

More from the Series

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Is DFC Going To Be a Development Finance Institution or a Foreign Policy Bank?
Clemence Landers et al.
March 25, 2021
The US International Development Finance Corporation has become a Rorschach test for the policy community: when they look at it, everyone sees something different.
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DFC’s December Board Meeting: A Fitting Bookend for the Agency’s First Year
Clemence Landers
and
Jocilyn Estes
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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USDFC Monitor: A Q&A with Senator Chris Coons
Clemence Landers
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...
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DFC’s Third Board Meeting: LICs, Liquidity, and LNG
Clemence Landers
and
Jocilyn Estes
September 17, 2020
In this monitor, we look at how the latest batch of projects help shift DFC’s overall portfolio balance towards lower-income markets and examine the agency’s COVID-19 response so far which remain largely focused on the provision of liquidity to financial intermediaries.