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Millennium Challenge Corporation Releases Annual Report
On April 9, 2007 – MCC released its Annual Report. Read the press release and download a PDF of the Annual Report.
Millennium Challenge Corporation Honors Two Employees with the President's Volunteer Service Award
On April 18, 2007 – MCC honored two employees with the President's Volunteer Service Award during the 2007 National Volunteer Week celebration
Millennium Challenge Corporation Receives Award for being a Best Place to Work in the Federal Government
On April 19, 2007 – MCC and was ranked the 5th best place to work among small government agencies
Millennium Challenge Corporation Builds Public Integrity through Positive Incentives
- Read MCC’s working paper on the fight against corruption
Ask the Expert
Ask Brad Parks, Development Policy Officer, a question about corruption. Should your question be chosen, it will appear with an answer in next month’s Millennium Challenge Monthly. Ask Brad a question.
Brad Parks
Development Policy Officer, Threshold Programs
Bradley Parks is a Development Policy Officer at the Millennium Challenge Corporation. He is responsible for gathering, processing, managing, analyzing, and reporting the data used to evaluate the MCA-candidate countries’ policy performance, as well as administering MCC’s annual country selection process. In addition, he advises MCC’s Senior Management on a range of policy issues.
Prior to joining the MCC, Mr. Parks was a Visiting Scholar in the Government Department at The College of William and Mary and a Research Analyst at UNAIDS. He has also served as an independent consultant to the European Commission (EC), the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID), and ActionAid International, and worked with non-profit organizations on education programs in Ecuador and agricultural survey research in Venezuela.
Mr. Parks holds an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in International Relations from the College of William and Mary. He has written and contributed to several books and articles on international relations, development theory, foreign aid allocation, global environmental politics, natural resource management, and health economics.
Most recently, he co-authored A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Change (MIT Press, 2006) with J. Timmons Roberts and Greening Aid: Understanding Environmental Assistance to Developing Countries (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) with Michael J. Tierney, J. Timmons Roberts, and Robert Hicks.
Notable Quotable:
“Our strategic framework for foreign assistance reflects this long-term approach and it builds on the key innovation of the Millennium Challenge Account, that our assistance should act as an incentive for developing countries themselves to transform the underlying conditions of poverty.
“The new framework recognizes that countries cannot progress also without peace and security. They cannot progress without economic growth. They cannot progress without investing in their people. They cannot progress ultimately without governing justly and democratically. And they cannot progress when their citizens lack even the most basic humanitarian relief.”
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
The InterAction 2007 Annual Forum
April 18, 2007
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