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BRIEFS
April 11, 2017
Established in 2004, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) was designed with a singular mission: to reduce poverty through economic growth. The agency’s approach reflects key principles of aid effectiveness, in particular, country selectivity, focus on results, and emphasis on l...
POLICY PAPERS
February 03, 2016
Despite the success of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) in reducing the debt burdens of low-income countries, at least eleven Sub-Saharan African countries are currently in, or face a high risk of, debt distress. A few of those currently at risk include countries that have been excluded fr...
CGD in the News
October 29, 2014
“There’s no doubt [Jim Yong Kim] personally and the institution are highly visible [in the Ebola crisis],” says Scott Morris, the US Treasury’s former liaison with the bank. “But I don’t see hard evidence that this is a shift towards the World Bank becoming the Wo...
CGD in the News
July 24, 2014
"No doubt the BRICS will take a more flexible stance, certainly in their energy strategies, when it comes to fossil fuels," said Scott Morris, an expert on international financial institutions at the Center for Global Development.
And although that's exactly what people concerned abou...