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Building on the Momentum: Focusing on Adolescent Girls through MCC Country Scorecards
July 15, 2016
In CGD’s last blog post on the new strategy, we commended the US government for leading the charge for adolescent girls—by issuing the first-ever country strategy specifically focused on the demographic. But how do we make sure that this articulated commitment continues to get ...
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The Senate’s Ideas for MCC: All Good in Theory, One Questionable in Practice
July 05, 2016
The FY17 State and Foreign Operations spending bill brought good news for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) with big implications for its operations. New authority to engage in concurrent compacts in a single country would enable MCC to operate on a regional level, and provis...
POLICY PAPERS
Creating a Better Candidate Pool for the Millennium Challenge Corporation
April 27, 2016
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) was established to provide large-scale grant funding to poor, well-governed countries to support their efforts to reduce poverty and generate economic growth.  However, the statutory definition of which countries are “poor” for the purposes...
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MCC Gets Serious About Paying for Results
April 21, 2016
For some time, we’ve been cheering MCC’s interest in pursuing approaches that pay for outcomes and encouraging the agency’s stakeholders to get onboard (here and here). Now we can applaud an important step forward. The agency’s new compact with M...
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Country Ownership at MCC: Compact with Liberia Showcases MCC Model’s Flexibility
April 13, 2016
When you think of Liberia over the past two years, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Probably not a hydropower plant.