Development Credit Authority

How to put $2 billion in the hands of entrepreneurs around the world: Animated Infographic
How to put $2 billion in the hands of entrepreneurs around the world: Animated Infographic
Development Credit Authority & Food Security
Expanding Access to Credit in Ethiopia
Development Credit Authority and Sustainability
How USAID Enables Sustainable Change

In emerging markets, eight out of ten small businesses cannot access the loans they need to grow. USAID’s Development Credit Authority (DCA) uses risk-sharing agreements to mobilize local private capital to fill this financing gap.

Whether it’s getting working capital to promising entrepreneurs or input financing to small farmers, DCA seeks to prove the commercial viability of underserved markets so that lending and investment continues after we exit. Through DCA, more than 300 transactions between financial institutions and USAID have made up to $2.3 billion in private financing available for more than 100,000 entrepreneurs around the world.
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Last updated: July 31, 2012