The votes are in!  Yesterday, MCC’s board of directors met to select countries for FY2015 compact and threshold program eligibility.  Last week, I made some predictions about the choices the board would make.  Let’s look at yesterday’s decisions and see how I did&hel...

In a nearly unprecedented gesture for a sitting head of state, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf joined the Senate Foreign Relations African Affairs subcommittee hearing on “The Ebola Epidemic: The Keys to Success for the International Response” to provide a statement, as wel...

The United States has enjoyed the privileged position of largest shareholder and donor at the World Bank and IMF since the institutions’ founding 70 years ago. 

Beware the zombies, ghouls, ghosts, and vampires that will flood streets across the country this Halloween Friday. Of course they’re mostly just children in costume with one thing on their minds: candy. And lots of it. 

Update: This blog was updated on 10/16/2014 from the original version.  What is the best way to promote access to reliable and affordable electricity for the estimated 600 million Africans that currently live without it? 

Publish What You Fund launched their fourth annual Aid Transparency Index (ATI) today.  The overall finding is that while many donors have made a number of international aid transparency commitments, the majority are falling short and not publishing useful information.