Transforming developing countries through private sector investment [1]

CDC facilitates private sector investment in countries which are home to 80% of the world’s poorest people. In this interview, the CEO of CDC, Nick O’Donohoe, explains what development finance is, the scale of this sector, and the challenges of investing in risky environments, as well as discusses some of CDC’s biggest success stories.

Standfirst: 
What do development finance institutions do, and how do they do it?
Interviewee: 
nick.odonohoe [2]
Date Published: 
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Tags: 
CDC [3]
DFID [4]
aid [5]
job creation [6]
jobs [7]
investment [8]
institutions [9]
Corruption [10]
private sector [11]
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Topic: 
Finance [12]
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Audio File: 
Audio icon VoxDev talk CDC.mp3 [18]
Photo Credit: 
Nile Sprague/TechnoServe