The Millennium Challenge Corporation and Ghana

Description

A U.S. government agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), provides aid to developing countries, focusing on poverty reduction through economic growth. It measures results through an economic rate of return based on increases in farmer incomes anticipated over twenty years. As MCC and Ghana finalize a $547 million grant for agriculture and transportation infrastructure, they come up against an accountability and measurement problem: how to address an urgent request from Ghana to fund community services-such as schools and drinking water-for which the results will be more difficult to measure.

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• The Millennium Challenge Corporation and Ghana, Teaching Note

Keywords

Accounting Community-based organizations Control systems corporate social responsibility Developing countries Economic growth Federal government International business Metrics Performance measurement Return on investment Social well being