,,,,,Investing in People by Investing in Data: How Best to Incorporate the New MCA Eligibility Indicators

Investing in People by Investing in Data: How Best to Incorporate the New MCA Eligibility Indicators


 

Publication Date: August 2007

Publisher: Center for Global Development; Center for Global Development

Author(s): Sarah Rose; Sheila Herrling; Steve Radelet; Sarah Rose; Sheila Herrling; Steve Radelet

Research Area: Environment; International relations

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Abstract:

The board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation will soon decide how to incorporate two new natural resources indicators—a Natural Resource Management Index (NRMI) and a Land Rights and Access indicator—into the FY2008 country selection process. In a new paper by CGD’s MCA Monitor team, Sarah Rose, Sheila Herrling, and Steve Radelet explore how to integrate these new indicators into the MCA's three eligibility criteria categories: Ruling Justly, Investing in People, and Economic Freedom. They recommend adding the Land Rights indicator to the Economic Freedom category, and the NRMI to Investing in People. They also urge the MCC to offer incentives for a third party to create an educational quality indicator, thereby bringing the total number of investing in people indicators to six, equal to the number of indicators in the other two categories.