On March 14, 2002, in a speech at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), President George W. Bush called for the creation of “a new compact for global development,” with greater contributions from ...

When President George W. Bush proposed the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) in 2002, he envisioned a new, performance-based foreign aid program that would serve as a model to reform existing ...

Brett was the Jay Kingham Senior Research Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs in Heritage’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom. As early as tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on ...

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is working to effectively shutter the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), closing programs and bringing staff to a bare minimum at the development ...

The future is unclear for a key, 20-year-old U.S. government initiative advancing American interests around the world and blunting Chinese and Russian influence. The Millennium Challenge Corporation ...

I was saddened to read the Aug. 1 editorial “Swapping experts for loyalists” and the July 29 front-page article “In a foreign aid agency, a place for Trump loyalists” about the politicization of the ...

As we watch and listen to policymakers discuss immigration policy, much of that debate refers to conditions in the migrants’ home countries and the need to address and improve conditions there in ...

When it comes to foreign assistance, many in the agriculture community think of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) or the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agriculture ...