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New from CGD
January 19, 2009
Braving freezing temperatures and gusty winds, hundreds of development experts and members of the policy community packed a Washington hotel ballroom for a discussion with David Gergen on the outlook for global development policy under new U.S. president Barack Obama. Gergen, an advisor to four pres...
New from CGD
September 11, 2006
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) currently uses 16 indicators of governance and policy performance to determine a country's eligibility for Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) finance. The MCC is proposing several changes to its selection process this year. While most of these changes are m...
May 15, 2006
Ghana and the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corp. are scheduled to sign the MCC's biggest compact yet in July, for half-a-billion dollars over five years. CGD senior associate Sarah Lucas interviewed dozens of people in Ghana and filed this MCA Monitor Field Report about such issues as country ownershi...
New from CGD
May 01, 2006
MCC CEO John Danilovich has taken the reins of the MCC in what may prove to be its most critical year to date, a year that firmly transitions the corporation from program start-up to program implementation. MCA watchers -- supporters and skeptics alike -- are anxious for proof that the MCA is truly ...
New from CGD
November 14, 2005
Last week the MCC Board of Directors selected 23 countries as eligible to apply for FY 2006 assistance, and 13 countries eligible for threshold program. CGD's Steven Radelet welcomed the news but questioned the decision to include for the first time two lower-middle income countries.
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New from CGD
October 31, 2005
The Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC) board will this week to select countries eligible to apply for 2006 MCA funding. New papers from CGD's MCA Monitor initiative consider which countries are likely to qualify and the tension between limited funding and the desire to make large grants to a growing n...