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Blog Post
January 24, 2025
The Millennium Challenge Corporation celebrated its 20th birthday last January, but Congress’s gift to the agency didn’t arrive until late December. It came in the form of the MCC Candidate Country Reform Act, signed into law as part of the FY 2025 National Defense Authorization Act. The measure pro...
Blog Post
January 16, 2025
What will the incoming Trump administration mean for US funding to multilateral development initiatives? We drill down on US funding for a subset of the major multilateral development, health, and climate funds, to see how funding levels enacted by Congress compared to presidential budget requests a...
Blog Post
November 26, 2024
My colleagues and I are preparing a series of blogs on the Biden administration’s global development agenda over the past 3 ½ years, with analysis on how the next Trump administration could affect its legacy. For the second piece in this series, we look at the outgoing administration’s record on hea...
Blog Post
July 24, 2024
The recently advanced bipartisan DFC Modernization and Reauthorization Act of 2024 does more than reauthorize the Development Finance Corporation—it also includes several provisions that would shape the US development finance agency’s direction of travel for the next seven years. Standout elements i...
BRIEFS
June 17, 2024
The International Development Association (IDA)—the World Bank’s arm that works in low- and lower-middle-income countries—is one of the largest sources of development assistance for the world’s poorest countries. It is also a crucial tool for resource-constrained governments to borrow on affordable ...
Blog Post
May 21, 2024
This week, Kenyan President William Ruto will be the first African leader to receive an official state visit since President George W. Bush invited Ghanaian President John Kufuor in 2008. President Ruto is traveling to Washington to mark the 60th anniversary of US-Kenyan diplomatic relations. But un...