The U.S. Development Finance Corporation (DFC) not only survived President Donald Trump’s blitzkrieg earlier this year through the U.S. foreign aid bureaucracy but also is now positioned to become the centerpiece of his “America First” approach to international assistance.
Republican and Democratic U.S. lawmakers are in the thick of negotiations for reauthorizing and turbocharging a key international development agency with an eye toward allowing it for the first time to invest in projects in high-income countries.
Republican and Democratic U.S. lawmakers are in the thick of negotiations for reauthorizing and turbocharging a key international development agency with an eye toward allowing it for the first time to invest in projects in high-income countries.
The U.S. Development Finance Corporation (DFC) not only survived President Donald Trump’s blitzkrieg earlier this year through the U.S. foreign aid bureaucracy but also is now positioned to become the centerpiece of his “America First” approach to international assistance.
But first, the agency, which offers low-interest loans for infrastructure projects in developing countries, needs to pass through the dense thicket of negotiations between the Senate and House over just how
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