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Blog Post
April 07, 2022
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has earned a reputation for its strong focus on results, which informs everything from country selection to the robust evaluation of project impacts. One of the bedrocks of MCC’s results orientation is its requirement that its projects achieve high economic...
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March 18, 2022
The “billions to trillions” vision advanced the notion that some significant part of official development assistance (ODA) should be used to catalyze additional finance from other public and private sources. Seven years later, the expectations that blended finance would expand sharply to help narrow...
Blog Post
February 09, 2022
Much has been written about yawning infrastructure finance gaps in sub-Saharan Africa, and there is a growing recognition that these gaps have widened during the pandemic. Since the “billions to trillions” vision was launched in 2015, many have stressed that the private sector must be a significant ...