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Challenging Foreign Aid: A Policymaker's Guide to the Millennium Challenge Account

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In March 2002, President George W. Bush proposed establishing the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), a new foreign aid program designed to provide substantial assistance to a select group of low-income countries that are committed to sound development policies. The MCA could bring about the most fundamental changes to US foreign assistance policy in 40 years.In this study, Steven Radelet examines the MCA's potential promise and possible pitfalls. He offers a rigorous analysis of the MCA's central challenge: making foreign aid more effective in supporting economic growth and poverty reduction in the poor countries. He systematically explores what makes the MCA different and pinpoints the critical issues that will determine its success or failure.The book concludes with important recommendations about how the MCA should be strengthened to solidify its innovation and independence and to ensure coordination with other US foreign aid programs. Written at a practical level, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone seriously interested in the MCA and US foreign assistance policy.

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  • Steven Radelet, 2003. "Challenging Foreign Aid: A Policymaker's Guide to the Millennium Challenge Account," Peterson Institute Press: All Books, Peterson Institute for International Economics, number cgd371, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:iie:ppress:cgd371
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    1. Bigsten, Arne & Tengstam, Sven, 2015. "International Coordination and the Effectiveness of Aid," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 69(C), pages 75-85.
    2. Abdur Chowdhury & Paolo Garonna, 2007. "Effective Foreign Aid, Economic Integration and Subsidiarity: Lessons from Europe," CASE Network Studies and Analyses 0346, CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research.
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    5. Bigsten, Arne & Tengstam, Sven, 2015. "International Coordination and the Effectiveness of Aid," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 69(C), pages 75-85.
    6. Yongzheng Yang & Mr. Robert Powell & Mr. Sanjeev Gupta, 2005. "The Macroeconomic Challenges of Scaling Up Aid to Africa," IMF Working Papers 2005/179, International Monetary Fund.
    7. Dreher, Axel & Nunnenkamp, Peter & Öhler, Hannes, 2012. "Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Other donors do!," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 115(3), pages 373-375.
    8. Jigar D. Bhatt, 2022. "Are growth diagnostics biased against the poor? Evidence from the Millennium Challenge Corporation," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 40(2), March.
    9. Nuno Baetas da Silva & João Sousa Andrade & António Portugal Duarte, 2016. "Alternative Sources of Dutch Disease: A Survey of the Literature," GEMF Working Papers 2016-10, GEMF, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra.
    10. Öhler, Hannes & Nunnenkamp, Peter & Dreher, Axel, 2012. "Does conditionality work? A test for an innovative US aid scheme," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 56(1), pages 138-153.
    11. Souha El Khanji, 2022. "Donors’ Interest in Water and Sanitation Subsectors," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 34(2), pages 611-654, April.
    12. Kane, Samuel & Eicher, Carl K., 2004. "Foreign Aid And The African Farmer," Staff Paper Series 11602, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics.
    13. Nasser Saidi, 2003. "Promesses Chatoyantes, Pietre Performance: Aide Et Cooperation Dans Les Pays Sortant D?un Conflit," Working Papers 0331, Economic Research Forum, revised 10 2003.
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    15. Steven Radelet, 2004. "The Millennium Challenge Account: Transforming US Foreign Assistance Policy?," Agenda - A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, Australian National University, College of Business and Economics, School of Economics, vol. 11(1), pages 53-69.
    16. Atsuko Tanaka, "undated". "Notes on Foreign Aid Selectivity Based on Human Capital," Working Papers 2015-23, Department of Economics, University of Calgary, revised 27 Sep 2015.
    17. C.V.O. Eneji & E. Obim & J.E.O. Eneji & T.O. Ellah & A. Ushie, 2013. "Civil Societies/Non- Governmental Organizations as Catalysts for the Attainment of the Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria," International Journal of Management Sciences, Research Academy of Social Sciences, vol. 1(11), pages 427-435.
    18. Nuno Baetas da Silva & João Sousa Andrade & António Portugal Duarte, 2016. "Alternative Sources of Dutch Disease: A Survey of the Literature," GEMF Working Papers 2016-10, GEMF, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra.

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