Millennium Challenge Corporation

U.S. Budget Woes Threaten MCC Money and Model

Sarah Jane Staats | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Development, Federal Budget Deficit, Mcc, Center for Global Development, fy2010 Budget, FY2011 Budget, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Politics News
Sarah Jane Staats

The prospect of a U.S. government shutdown over the FY2011 budget still hangs over Washington.

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Rotary International Names Dynamic New General Secretary

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rotary International, Conflict, Sri Lanka, Leogane, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Sustainable Development, Marshall Scholar, Oiww, Tsunami, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Jim Luce, John Hewko, Rotary Foundation, Harvard Law School, Oxford University, India, Baker & McKenzie, Polio, World Health Organization, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Orphans International Worldwide, Usaid, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Impact News
Jim Luce

There are 1.2 million Rotarians in 33,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas, and they couldn't have a more capable general secretary than John Hewko.

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A Webb of Misguided MCC Ideas

Sarah Jane Staats | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aid-Effectiveness, Foreign Aid, Mcc, AID Effectiveness, Millennium Challenge Corporation, World News
Sarah Jane Staats

Senator Jim Webb says the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) should stop funding development projects awarded to non-U.S. companies in Africa. I can think of three reasons this is misguided.

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Cutting Off the Honduran Coup's Air Supply

Laura Carlsen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Honduran Coup, Inter-American Development Bank, School of the Americas Watch, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Panamax, World News
Laura Carlsen

With grassroots challenges growing throughout the country and outside supplies being cut off, the question the world is asking is: How long can this last?

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Tough Talk on Africa is a Two-Way Street

David Lane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Ghana, African Leaders, Hillary Clinton Africa, Hillary Clinton, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Africa, World News
David Lane

Secretary Clinton has made it clear that America has no tolerance for the corruption and impunity that has sadly plagued the independence generation in many African states.

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When Aid Agencies Listen

Dennis Whittle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Globalgiving, Aid Agencies, Development, International Aid, Aidwatch, Reinventing Foreign Aid, Mcc, Millennium Challenge Corporation, World News
Dennis Whittle

The aid industry has spent over $2 trillion since World War II to help spur the development of poorer countries, with not enough to show for it.

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Where Poverty and Culture Intersect: Embracing Local Traditions to Better Fight Poverty

Ivonne A-Baki | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United National Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, Poverty, Unesco, World Poverty, Arts, Global Poverty, Culture, Millennium Challenge Corporation, World News
Ivonne A-Baki

If the world's poor are to pull themselves out of extreme poverty and onto the path of development, culture is both a means and ends for doing so.

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