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Blog Post
February 04, 2015
The budget that the President submitted to Congress this week included an 8 percent increase in the international affairs account, including a commendable increase for the Millennium Challenge Corporation. But what we haven’t seen from this administration yet is a concrete proposal for how Ame...
CGD in the News
February 04, 2015
The lesson of the Ebola crisis is that when faced with emerging infectious disease threats, the world needs to react faster and stronger—based on enhanced global cooperation and better preparation. Failing to do so could mean an even deadlier epidemic the next time.
CGD in the News
November 18, 2014
It’s not just individual projects that fall into the gap between inputs and results. Lant Pritchett’s The Rebirth of Education: Schooling Ain't Learning documents how the international push for improved school attendance—as opposed to improved literacy, professional skills, and...
CGD in the News
September 08, 2014
Despite the implosion of the Middle East over the past two years, the U.S. is still in a far better national security situation than it was 25 years ago. At the same time, the demand for American humanitarian assistance may never have been higher—in part because the end of the Cold War means a...
CGD in the News
August 05, 2014
USAID’s Cuba program is somewhat less extreme, however, and it’s difficult to predict to what degree it might affect U.S. health programs in other countries. Charles Kenny, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, said the likeliest outcome would be that suspicions over U.S....
CGD in the News
June 23, 2014
One of the few bright spots of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill of late has been in global development. The House recently passed a bill to support President Clinton’s Power Africa initiative, which is designed to boost access to electricity access across six countries in the region. Both houses...
Blog Post
April 14, 2014
Last week, CGD hosted a discussion with Alicia Phillips Mandaville and Andria Hayes-Birchler of the Millennium Challenge Corporation about the MCC’s ‘corruption hard hurdle’ –the Corporation’s use of a corruption indicator as a key pass/fail component of selecting ...
Blog Post
March 17, 2014
Our new analysis Hating on the Hurdle explores the MCC’s use of a hard hurdle for its control of corruption indicator and finds that this strict interpretation – a country must be above the median on the corruption indicator to be considered for eligibility – is...