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OPIC and the global microfinance industry
One of the core ways that OPIC carries out its mission to help channel private capital to address the world’s toughest development challenges is by working with microfinance institutions. In this guest...
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Meeting the global unemployment challenge
A report earlier this month from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) offered some staggering measures of worldwide unemployment. IFC said there are currently 200 million people unemployed...
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Featured photo: Support for Rwandan coffee growers
Shyara washing station owned by OPIC client Westrock Coffee Holdings’ Rwanda Trading Co. (“RTC”). OPIC political risk insurance is supporting RTC’s coffee processing operations in Rwanda, which...
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OPIC’s President and CEO heads to Haiti to support micro lending for...
This week, OPIC’s President and CEO Elizabeth Littlefield will lead a delegation of OPIC representatives on a visit to Haiti to launch an important mortgage finance project developed in partnership...
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A world of opportunity: OPIC’s interactive map feature
OPIC’s support of U.S. private investment extends around the globe to 160 developing and post-conflict countries. As the U.S. government’s development finance institution, OPIC catalyzes revenues,...
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Two OPIC deals named on IFC’s list of top public-private partnerships
OPIC’s 2008 deal to provide financing and political risk insurance to ContourGlobal is helping increase electricity generation in Togo. Photo Credit: ContourGlobal. Public-private partnerships have...
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Featured Photo: Home improvement loans backed by OPIC keep Cambodian...
OPIC Managing Director of Micro and SME Finance Loren Rodwin, left, visits the home of Pen Phalla, center, a Cambodian grocery store owner who is using a $3000 home improvement loan to expand her...
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Improving health care in Africa, one clinic at a time
In Sub-Saharan Africa, access to healthcare is limited, the quality of care is often poor, and the need is great. The continent carries a disproportionate share of the global burden of many diseases...
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World Health Day highlights need for better health care in developing countries
April 7th is designated as World Health Day each year by the World Health Organization (WHO) to commemorate that agency’s founding. In conjunction with this, WHO annually highlights a theme that has a...
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New featured photo: World Health Day: Improving Medical Technology in Russia
ACD Research Inc, a New York based company, is using OPIC insurance to access new health technology equipment for the Samara Oncology Center in Russia. This has enabled the center to offer cancer...
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Laying the foundation for investments in South Sudan
U.S. Ambassador to South Sudan Susan D. Page joins South Sudan's Minister of Commerce, Industry & Investment Garang Diing Akuong and Overseas Private Investment Corporation Executive Vice President...
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OPIC‘s Project 158 drives private equity capital to emerging markets
In late 2011, OPIC issued its first Global Engagement Call for proposals from qualified emerging markets private equity fund managers. Similar to earlier requests, the Global Engagement Call again...
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Rebuilding Haiti one concrete block at a time
By Aysha House-Moshi, Director, OPIC Congressional Affairs “You can’t build a country without concrete.” The statement has particular relevance in Haiti, where, more than three years since a 7.0...
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Doing business in Asia Pacific
President Obama recently announced a new OPIC commitment to sustainable power and energy projects in the Asia-Pacific region, as part of the U.S.-Asia-Pacific Comprehensive Energy Partnership...
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Africa Day: Reflecting on progress and investing for the future
The waiting room of a health clinic in Tanzania that has used a loan from the Medical Credit Fund to upgrade its facility. May 25 is Africa Day, which recognizes the founding of the African Union in...
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Why the world’s poor are a good credit risk
OPIC financing is supporting construction of the Los Castanos de Choloma affordable housing project in Honduras. By John Aldonas Deputy Vice President, OPIC Small and Medium Enterprise Finance Does it...
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The road to development begins with a road: OPIC receives multiple...
At a recent Senate hearing on International Development, OPIC was repeatedly cited for playing a leading role supporting development in ways that also support the American economy and national...
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Featured photo: Bringing solar power to rural households in Nicaragua
Photo credit: Global Communities Candido Rodriguez, a farmer who lives and works in a rural region of Nicaragua, was able to purchase a solar panel with the help of a local microfinance institution,...
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Helping SME’s invest in emerging markets: A conversation with James Polan,...
OPIC’s Small and Medium-Enterprise (SME) Financing is available for businesses with annual revenues of less than $400 million. In this interview, James Polan, Vice President, Small and Medium...
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How OPIC extends its impact through partnerships
2013 annual report highlights OPIC partnerships OPIC has a long tradition of partnering with private sector businesses to catalyze investment in challenging markets around the world. But the agency’s...
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