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Optimized Lending Procedures Improve Access to Agricultural Loans

Posted by  on Monday, May 20th 2013     
An international expert trains the bank officers on new loan approval templates. Photo credit: Vasif Badalov, USAID ACT project

USAID-assisted DemirBank in Azerbaijan introduces best practices for lending procedures for agricultural loans. Read more >>

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How USAID is Putting Local Wealth to Work

Posted by  on Thursday, March 15th 2012     

In the 1960s, during USAID’s founding decade, official development assistance represented 70 percent of all capital flows to developing countries. Today, foreign aid makes up just 13 percent, having been replaced over time by trade, investment, and other sources of private capital. This changing landscape means our impact can be even greater. Rather than using [...]

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