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Mobilizing Local Wealth for Entrepreneurs Around the World

How does the USAID's Development Credit Authority (DCA) put local wealth to work? Through issuing credit guarantees to local banks, encouraging them to lend to promising entrepreneurs who they otherwise wouldn't consider.