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Six questions about Impact Investing

June 05, 2012

Investors are increasingly talking about “Impact Investing,” but the practice is not new to OPIC, which has a 40-year history of transforming private capital into solutions for common social and environmental challenges around the world. Here OPIC explains the concept of Impact Investing, and why it offers the potential for such strong financial returns. Last fall, OPIC announced a “historic
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Can financial innovation save the world? Elizabeth Littlefield weighs in.

June 01, 2012

A recent piece in The Atlantic explores investors’ growing interest in Impact Investing. The piece describes impact investors and those “who want to use finance to make more food, cleaner water, better healthcare, smarter children and a richer bottom-of-the-pyramid.” It sounds like a tall order, but OPIC has long understood that investing in comon challenges such as access to education, financial inclusion, housing, health
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Development and health

April 05, 2012

Saturday April 7 is World Health Day, an annual event the World Health Organization hosts to call attention to public health challenges across the planet. Although these health challenges are not confined to developing countries, many of the world’s low-income and least-developed countries lack the basic infrastructure, energy, and access to finance that is essential to ensuring food and water
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