Center for Global Development [to 23 April 2016]
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Selected Press Releases, Blog Posts, Publications
Inside the Portfolio of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation
4/19/16
Benjamin Leo and Todd Moss
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) is the US government’s development finance institution. Balancing risks, financial needs, and development benefits is riven with numerous tensions, statutory restrictions, and tradeoffs. This raises an important policy question – how well does OPIC’s actual portfolio balance these competing goals? Since much data about the OPIC portfolio is unavailable in an accessible format, we built the OPIC Scraped Portfolio database to address this question.