MCC head responds to President Obama’s FY11 budget request
Earlier this month, Beth Adler took a look at the proposed increase to the Millennium Challenge Account in the President’s FY2011 budget request.
Now the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s CEO has weighed in on his blog, stating that the increase would allow the MCC to “pursue partnerships with Malawi, Indonesia, and Zambia, with the hope of signing compacts with each of these countries” as well as a second compact with Cape Verde.
You can read his full take here.
On a related note, Reuters has an interview with Daniel Yohannes in which he elaborates a bit more on corporate investments in developing nations. Worth a read.
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February 19, 2010 at 11:06 am
The first and second links both go to Yohannes’ “full take” . . .
February 19, 2010 at 11:13 am
Thank you for catching that, Kate! I fixed the link in the post. You can read Beth’s piece here: http://one.org/blog/2010/02/02/the-presidents-budget-the-millennium-challenge-account/