Assessing the Millennium Challenge Corporation as a Model for Foreign Assistance Reform

Prud'homme, Dan (2007): Assessing the Millennium Challenge Corporation as a Model for Foreign Assistance Reform.

Abstract

This study assesses the effectiveness of different administrative models of US foreign assistance, with a unique focus on one that hypothetically channels more DFA-administered funds through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). The study finds several limitations with this model, and so discounts the assumption that because the MCC is a fairly effective instrument of foreign assistance simply expanding it as is would spread its benefits on a larger scale. With some additions to its framework, however, the model may be quite effective and both politically and economically feasible.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Millennium Challenge Account; Millennium Challenge Corporation; MCA; MCC; international economics; USAID; DFA; foreign aid; foreign assistance; international development; Prud'homme; Dan Prud'homme; Dan Prudhomme
• Subjects: H - Public Economics > H1 - Structure and Scope of Government > H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O2 - Development Planning and Policy; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O2 - Development Planning and Policy > O21 - Planning Models ; Planning Policy

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