A U.S. government agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), provides assistance to developing countries, focusing on poverty reduction through economic growth. Results are measured by it through an economic rate of return based on increases in farmer incomes expected over twenty years.
As MCC and Ghana finalize a $547 million grant for agriculture and transport infrastructure, they come up against an accountability and measurement problem: how to address an urgent request from Ghana to finance community services-such as schools and drinking water - for which the results will be tougher to quantify.
The Millennium Challenge Corporation and Ghana case study solution
PUBLICATION DATE: July 17, 2009 PRODUCT #: 310025-PDF-ENG
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