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Perspective
20 December 2018

Is the new US development finance agency taking a knife to a gunfight?

Region:
Americas, Asia-Pacific
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The IDFC — which could eventually incorporate US Exim — will see the US try to take on the Chinese development banks at their own game. TXF asks how that will play out both in terms of feasibility and the wider impact on development as a tool of foreign policy.

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