Corruption

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Running the Hurdles: A Sneak Peek into MCC’s Upcoming Country Eligibility Decisions
September 30, 2014
In December, MCC’s Board of Directors will meet to determine which countries will be eligible for FY2015 funding. While the agency’s annual country scorecards won’t be ready for a few months, updated corruption and democracy data are available now.
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Memo to Jim Kim: Please Follow Results, Not Money
May 02, 2014
One of the biggest hopes people expressed about Jim Kim’s nomination to become president of the World Bank was that he would bring a fresh perspective, focused on achieving results, rather than reinforce the institution’s bureaucratic machinery. Unfortunately, President Kim’s ...
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Causes of Corruption in Developing Countries: CGD Alumnus Sandip Sukhtankar Honored for His Research
April 22, 2014
When opportunities for corrupt earnings rise, is there more corruption? This fundamental question is the subject of new, frontier-pushing research by two young stars of development economics: CGD alumnus Sandip Sukhtankar and his co-author Paul Niehaus.
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Hating on the MCC's Corruption Hard Hurdle – Casey Dunning, Charles Kenny, and Alicia Phillips Mandaville (MCC)
April 14, 2014
CGD's Casey Dunning, Charles Kenny, and Jonathan Karver recently wrote an analysis with the provocative title "Hating on the Hurdle," that offered constructive criticism of the Millennium Challenge Corporation's (MCC) approach to penalizing corruption using a “hard hurdl...
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The Supreme Court Strikes Down the MCC Corruption Hard Hurdle (Well, Sort Of).
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 ...
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Contracting Down Under
April 03, 2014
In preparation for a CGD working group on government contract publication, we’ve been looking at how much information governments already put online about the contracts that they award.   Australia — current president of the G-20 — is an interesting case.  ...
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Two Thumbs Up for BIG MEN on Ghana’s Oil Dilemma
March 24, 2014
The wonky public policy debates over what to do with African oil windfalls comes to the big screen with BIG MEN, a terrific new documentary by Rachel Boynton.