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Featured photo: Local retailer supports jobs and sustainable development in...
The Guatemala City flagship store of Cemaco, a family-owned business that operates 20 retail stores throughout Guatemala selling hardware, home goods ,toys and baby gear. OPIC, through a loan guaranty...
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Paper features OPIC President Elizabeth Littlefield on the role of the...
This week, OPIC President and CEO Elizabeth L. Littlefield is visiting Pakistan to discuss investment opportunities with the business community. The visit was highlighted in local media on Monday with...
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Powering Africa: A massive challenge and a major investment opportunity
Littlefield at the ONE Campaign event July 24. Sub-Saharan Africa has seen significant economic progress in recent years with growth rates in many countries that are among the highest in the world, and...
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Client spotlight: Global Partnerships invests more than just money in poor...
What do the world’s poor people need? Money is one simple answer, but money alone is often not enough to support long-term solutions to put individuals and communities on the path to prosperity....
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OPIC recognizes International Youth Day 2013
Today is International Youth Day, a day created by the United Nations in 1999 to mark the important contribution youth make to the world. This year, International Youth Day focuses on youth migration...
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World Humanitarian Day: The world needs more impact investing
In 2003, the United Nations created World Humanitarian Day to recognize those who face danger and adversity in order to help others. This year, the United Nations has created a new campaign called...
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Alemayehou: Public private partnerships can transform Africa
As much of Africa enjoys a period of unprecedented economic growth, it also faces the challenge of how to sustain and extend this progress. In a recent piece for AllAfrica.com, OPIC Executive Vice...
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Featured photo: OPIC supports literacy in developing countries
In honor of International Literacy Day on September 8, this week we feature a photo of a student at the International Community School in Kumasi, Ghana. An OPIC loan has helped fund the expansion of...
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OPIC, other international finance institutions to work toward harmonizing the...
Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) such as OPIC strive to measure the local impact of their investments, but have different methods for doing so. And, when they work jointly with the same...
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Measuring and monitoring impact: Five ways development impacts lives (part...
This post is the third in a series on OPIC’s work measuring and monitoring the developmental impact of the projects it supports. To view the previous posts click here and here. Each project OPIC...
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Littlefield in AllAfrica: Africa can be transformed with public-private...
How can Africa fully compete when countless factories and computers go dark during rolling blackouts? How can it compete in an era of non-stop, round-the-clock communication when millions go home to...
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Getting to dawn in Sub-Saharan Africa: OPIC’s Whalen on the changing...
OPIC Vice President, Structured Finance, Michael Whalen wrote about Africa’s energy deficit in Project Finance International’s 2014 Yearbook, where he said that an improving investment climate and the...
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Creating an impact investing strategy: OPIC’s approach featured in Stanford...
In recent years OPIC has made it a priority to support impact investing and between 2008 and 2012 the Agency supported $2.4 billion in impact investments. Some of the challenges it has encountered in...
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Measuring and monitoring impact: How one OPIC-supported school in Ghana...
In 2006, OPIC provided a $1.74 million loan to support expansion of the International Community School (ICS) in Kumasi, Ghana, allowing the school to double enrollment to more than 1,000 K-12...
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Announcing the inaugural OPIC Impact Awards
OPIC is proud to recognize some of our outstanding partners with our first ever OPIC Impact Awards for excellence in development finance. The awards, which will be given out at a ceremony on March 11,...
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OPIC’s Impact Awards: A recap in photos
OPIC’s March 11 inaugural Impact Awards ceremony was a big success and helped us highlight the ways our clients are making a difference around the world. In this post we showcase the winners. Global...
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Spotlight on OPIC Impact Award winners: SunEdison
On a quiet plain in the rural center of South Africa sits a small town called Boshof. It’s far from the bustling cities of Cape Town and Johannesburg, and hundreds of miles from the dramatic, hilly...
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Spotlight on OPIC Impact Award winners: Ellicott Dredges
Small businesses comprise the majority of all firms in the U.S. economy, and are powerful engines of job creation at home as well as drivers of development, innovative solutions, and economic...
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OPIC seeks to support American investors in Malawi
By Elizabeth Littlefield President and CEO, Overseas Private Investment Corporation President Obama asked me a year ago to travel to Malawi to explore opportunities to support private sector investment...
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Spotlight on OPIC Impact Award winners: Helios Investment Partners
In addition to the direct financing OPIC provides to many projects in emerging markets, the Agency also supports development by providing financing to privately-owned and managed equity funds...
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