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POLICY PAPERS
Implementing Ownership at USAID and MCC: A US Agency-Level Perspective
Casey Dunning et al.
January 12, 2017
For over ten years, the international development community, including the US government, has committed to incorporating greater country ownership into the design and delivery of foreign assistance. This paper makes six broad recommendations for how USAID, MCC, and Congress can help the US governmen...
Blog Post
Foreign Aid in the Trump Administration: Probably Different, but Not Necessarily Smaller?
Nancy Birdsall
and
Alan Gelb
December 21, 2016
Foreign aid is often mentioned as the first and easiest thing to cut, particularly in a Republican administration with a Republican Congress. But maybe not. Consider five points.
Blog Post
Accounting for the Corruption that Counts at the MCC
Charles Kenny
December 14, 2016
There’s a lot to be said for good data sense, and one way the Millennium Challenge Corporation could demonstrate such sense next year is to replace their current corruption measure with a better one: surveyed evidence of bribes paid.
Blog Post
A New Look at US Government Approaches to Country Ownership
Sarah Rose
and
Jared Kalow
December 13, 2016
Over the past decade, the US government has repeatedly committed to incorporate greater country ownership into the way it designs and delivers aid programs. Though a range of factors—including strong domestic pressures—influence foreign assistance, US aid agencies have taken concrete ste...
Blog Post
Coming Soon: MCC’s New Crop of Countries for FY2017
Sarah Rose
December 08, 2016
Next Tuesday the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s (MCC) board of directors will hold its final meeting of the year—and the last under the Obama administration. On the docket? Selecting which countries will be eligible for MCC assistance for fiscal year (FY) 2017. For the four...
MCC MONITOR ANALYSIS
MCC Country Eligibility Predictions for FY2017
Sarah Rose
December 06, 2016
The last board meeting of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) under the Obama administration will take place on December 13, 2016. On the docket? Selecting which countries will be eligible for MCC assistance for fiscal year (FY) 2017. For the fourteenth year running, CGD’s Rethinking US...
Blog Post
Something Old, Something New at MCC’s Board Meeting
Sarah Rose
September 04, 2014
MCC’s Board of Directors is meeting on September 17*.  On the agenda: a number of things we’ve been thinking about a lot lately!