CGD Analysis Summary
The MCA is just one tool in the U.S. development assistance tool kit. The U.S. administers aid through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and a variety of other agencies. To be most effective the MCA must coordinate its activities with these other U.S. agencies, as well as with other bilateral and multilateral donors. Aid, in turn, is just one policy tool to support development in poor countries. According to CGD’s Commitment to Development Index (CDI), the U.S. ranks 13th among the 21 richest nations in terms of the development friendliness of its aid, trade, security, investment, technology, migration and environmental policies.
CGD Work on MCA Donor and Policy Coordination
- An Open Letter to President Bush on the UN Education Fast Track Initiative and the U.S. Millennium Challenge Account by Nancy Birdsall and Ruth Levine (January 23, 2005)
- From Pushing Reforms to Pulling Reforms: The Role of Challenge Programs in Foreign Aid Policy by Steve Radelet (February 2, 2005)
- President Bush's Second Term and Development: Five Issues Worth Watching by Lawrence MacDonald (November 22, 2004)
- Whither Development Assistance? An Analysis of the President's 2005 Budget Request by Rikhil Bhavnani, Nancy Birdsall and Isaac Shapiro (July 30, 2004)
- Bush and Foreign Aid by Steve Radelet, September/October issue of Foreign Affairs. (Reprinted by permission of FOREIGN AFFAIRS, © 2003 by the Council on Foreign Relations.)
- The Other War: Global Poverty and the Millennium Challenge Account
by Lael Brainard, Carol Graham, Nigel Purvis, Steven Radelet, and Gayle Smith
(June 1,2003) - Challenging Foreign Aid: A Policymaker's Guide to the Millennium Challenge Account by Steven Radelet (May 2003)