Chief Executive Officer blog

Visa recognized for investing in sustainable development

On behalf of MCC, I am proud that we will recognize Visa as the recipient of our first Corporate Award for demonstrating exemplary commitment to eradicating poverty in the developing world. We are impressed with their commitment to advancing financial inclusion

Opening the gateway to opportunity

By incentivizing the right policy conditions and generating an enabling environment for growth, MCC builds a Gateway to Opportunity for the world's poor and American businesses.

Paving the future for Ghanaians

MCC helped improve a 14-kilometer stretch of the highway as part of its five-year, $547 million compact. It runs through the heart of the capital city and for decades has been clogged with people and traffic.

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Poverty Reduction blog

Innovation in water

A community irrigation system created with the help of MCC’s compact with Honduras recently received international recognition—the latest example of how MCC’s investments provide a model for sustainable poverty growth in our partner countries.

Will Mozambique be Africa’s next big growth economy?

MCC's vice president of compact operations recently visited Mozambique and left optimistic about the country's economic future.

Boosting tourism, increasing incomes in rural Namibia

I served as a panelist today at an event MCC co-hosted with the World Wildlife Fund that focused on strategies, implementation and lessons learned from promoting community-driven approaches to natural resource management and eco-tourism in Namibia. We discussed

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