The images of forest fires blazing across Canada are vivid and surreal: pine trees choked by red and yellow flames as smoke clouds reach for the murky orange sky. It’s a harrowing sight. …

By Khalia Mounsey, Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Deputy Resident Country Director, Ghana Reliable electricity is critical to reducing poverty and creating expanded economic opportunities, especially for a country with a growing economy and ambitious development goals like Ghana. That is why MCC partnered with the Government of Ghana on the $316…

The Millennium Challenge Corporation’s (MCC) Vice President of Compact Operations, Fatema Sumar, united with private sector, development, and investment leaders in the nation’s capital March 17 to examine how capital flows are underpinning Africa’s energy transition at the 8th Edition of the Powering Africa Summit. Sumar joined John Irons, Deputy…

Many young girls in Morocco drop out of school by age 14. Some find school boring or do not see how it would help their future, particularly in the rural parts of the country. After all, girls are expected to get married, have children, and maintain a home. The Attahadi…

Reducing Poverty by Empowering Girls in Developing Countries Technology drives our global economy, which means investing in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) training is our passport to the future. New technologies are dramatically changing how we work in the global environment and how we address global issues. More so…

The Power of Regional Markets People, goods, and services move across borders, but the marketplace, policies and infrastructure from country to country are often very different. These variations can act as a constraint to economic growth, especially in developing countries. Aligning regulations and policies through regional integration can not only…

Minh H. Chau, Presidential Innovation Fellow, Millennium Challenge Corporation When it comes to innovation, Africa has an abundance of entrepreneurial talent. Nowhere is early-stage, technology-driven innovation more exciting than it is in Africa right now. …

Blerona Rexhaj was 23 years old when she left her home in Istog, Kosovo for the first time and moved to Des Moines, Iowa — a city five times the population size of her home. She was selected from hundreds of applicants from Kosovo to embark on a two-year, fully-funded…

By Jonathan Nash, MCC Acting CEO At a time when national budgets and donor resources are stretched, finding new sources of capital for investment in public infrastructure and services is critical to helping some of the world’s poorest people rise out of poverty. Governments around the world are looking to…