Senior fellow Steve Radelet was interviewed in this Reuters article about the Millennium Challenge Corporation's announcement of five new compact countries.
From the article:
Steve Radelet, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for Global Development, said it made sense for the United States to provide generous assistance to Jordan, a strong ally and already a big recipient of U.S. funding, but MCC aid would be much better spent on poorer countries.
"Bringing in such a high profile political partner into the MCC risks politicizing the MCC," Radelet said.
"It is pretty hard to justify from a development perspective giving the next dollar to Jordan when there are plenty of other poor countries like Zambia, which could have qualified for this program and are in greater need," he added.
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