Archive for the 'Nigeria' Tag
Featured Photo: Expanding access to healthcare in Nigeria
Doctors at a Cedarcrest Orthopedic Clinic in Abuja show some of the advanced equipment at the facility, which has been expanded with the support of OPIC financing. At a time when limited healthcare has led many Nigerians to seek medical care in... Read more...
The hard and necessary work of investing in the world’s most vulnerable places
OPIC supports a project in Afghanistan that helps suppliers of raw cashmere build a supply chain and sell their product for export. The business has helped create more than 1,500 jobs for the men and women in the region. “... Read more...
Featured photo: Preventing malaria deaths
Malaria nets hang above the beds in this small health clinic, one of many in Sub-Saharan Africa that has been able to expand and purchase more equipment with the help of Medical Credit Fund (MCF). MCF provides financing to... Read more...
Snapshots in development: Annual report highlights OPIC’s far-reaching impact
From Vietnam to Afghanistan, Malawi and Brazil, OPIC supports projects that build power plants and water treatment facilities, increase access to food and healthcare, introduce cleaner sources of energy and help address poverty by building... Read more...
Powering Africa: The on-grid challenge
Second in a series looking at OPIC’s work supporting President Obama’s Power Africa Initiative See also: Powering Africa: The off-grid challenge President Obama’s Power Africa initiative has increased awareness of the challenge of... Read more...
“Energy prosperity can replace energy poverty:” NPR highlights Power Africa and OPIC’s latest commitment
National Public Radio featured the African Leaders Summit and President Obama’s Power Africainitiative this week in a story that highlighted OPIC’s latest Power Africa project, its $50 million commitment to the 450-megawatt... Read more...
Committing to continued investment in Africa
OPIC President Elizabeth Littlefield signs a memorandum of understanding on August 4 with Mohamed El Kettani (right), Chairman and CEO of Morocco’s Attijariwafa Bank; and Thomas McCaffery (left), Wells Fargo executive vice president, expressing... Read more...
Beyond BRIC: The next economic giants
A branch of Garanti bank in Turkey, a bank that is using OPIC financing to increase lending to small businesses and female entrepreneurs. It’s been 13 years since economist Jim O’Neill coined the term ... Read more...
Financial inclusion for Africa's healthcare providers
By Dia Martin, OPIC, Senior Investment Officer On a continent that carries a disproportionate share of many diseases from HIV-AIDS to high blood pressure, access to finance poses a major challenge to the small clinics that serve so many lower and... Read more...
OPIC recognizes International Youth Day 2013
Today is International Youth Day, a day created by the United Nations in 1999 to mark the important contribution youth make to the world. This year, International Youth Day focuses on youth migration and the rewards and risks associated with it... Read more...