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From Innovation to Impact: Next Steps for the Millennium Challenge Corporation
Publication Date: January 2009
Publisher(s): Center for Global Development; Center for Global Development
Author(s): Sheila Herrling; Molly Kinder; Steve Radelet; Sheila Herrling; Molly Kinder; Steve Radelet
Topic: Government (Foreign relations)
International relations (International relief and humanitarian assistance)
Social conditions (Poverty and homelessness)
Abstract:
The Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC) has received wide praise for its innovative approaches to aid allocation and delivery but has not yet reached its full potential. Now, with the transition to a new administration, the MCC must take bold steps to achieve greater effectiveness, clarity of purpose, and integration with the broader U.S. foreign assistance framework. CGD analysts Sheila Herrling, Steve Radelet, and Molly Kinder offer timely suggestions, including introducing smaller, multiple compacts, reorienting the Threshold Program, and focusing exclusively on low-income countries.