During one of the peaks of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, when a new variant swept through South Asia, DFC moved quickly to build local vaccine manufacturing capacity to help ensure more people could receive life-saving shots. DFC’s financing enabled Indian manufacturers to swiftly expand production to support at least…

“We may sometimes speak of democracy in abstract terms. But democracy is a powerful tool for economic growth,” DFC CEO Scott Nathan told a group of world leaders this week at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). As world leaders gathered to advance solutions to widespread food insecurity and other…

By Jake Levine Last month, I traveled to Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Singapore to advance DFC’s — the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation — support for clean energy development in Asia and to represent DFC at the ASEAN Clean Energy Dialogue.

When the highly contagious Delta variant led to a swift surge in COVID cases in Southeast Asia in 2021, less than five percent of India’s population had been vaccinated. DFC responded with financing to help Indian pharmaceutical manufacturer Biological E Limited expand capacity to produce an additional one billion doses…

With more than 2.1 million African immigrants living in the United States, members of the African diaspora represent vital contacts for international economic exchange. Diaspora communities are facilitators of global business, with their familiarity of local economies and relationships in their home countries. For development finance institutions like DFC, diaspora…

During his first official visit to Africa this week, DFC CEO Scott Nathan met with political and business leaders and signaled the agency’s commitment to mobilizing investment to improve food security, and expand access to critical services from electricity to technology. DFC has almost $10 billion of active investments in…

According to the Global Poverty Project, 80 percent of the estimated one billion individuals who live with a disability are based in the developing world. Because living with a disability can make it harder to participate in the workforce or to gain access to essential services, there is a significant…

By Andrew Herscowitz Last month at G7, President Biden announced the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII), a bold commitment to dramatically scale up investment in emerging market infrastructure projects. DFC is proud to play a key role in helping countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America build the…

Like many of the small businesses in Honduras, Doris Beauty Salon in Tegucigalpa suffered a significant loss of business in 2020 when COVID-19 emerged, leading to lockdowns and social distancing. “My business was at its best and we were growing rapidly, but with the pandemic everything went downhill,” said owner…