BACKGROUND MATERIALS
ON THE MILLENIUM CHALLENGE ACCOUNT

Aossey, Nancy A., and Mary E. McClymont. The Millennium Challenge Account: A Policy Paper from InterAction. Washington, D.C.: InterAction, May 24, 2002.

Birdsall, Nancy, Ruth Levine, Sarah Lucas and Sonal Shah. On Eligibility Criteria for the Millennium Challenge Account. Washington, D.C.: Center for Global Development, September 12, 2002.

Bush, George W. President Proposes $5 Billion Plan to Help Developing Nations. Remarks by the President on Global Development. Washington, D.C.: March 14, 2002.

Bush, George W. President Outlines U.S. Plan to Help World's Poor. Remarks by the President at United Nations Financing for Development Conference. Monterrey, Mexico, March 22, 2002.

Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU). Business Recommendations for Administering the Millennium Challenge Account. New York, New York: BCIU, November 18, 2002.

Catholic Relief Services (CRS). Improving Development Effectiveness: Recommendations for the Millennium Challenge Account. Baltimore, Maryland: CRS, June 24, 2002.

Clemens, Michael and Steven Radelet. The Millennium Challenge Account: How Much is Too Much, How Long is Too Long? Washington, D.C.: Center for Global Development, February 2003.

Heritage Foundation and Dow Jones & Company, Inc. The 2003 Index of Economic Freedom. Washington, D.C.: Heritage Foundation and Dow Jones & Company, Inc., 2003.

Kaufmann, Daniel and Aart Kraay. Governance Indicators, Aid Allocation, and the Millennium Challenge Account. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, December 2002.

Lancaster, Carol. The Devil is in the Details: From the Millennium Challenge Account to the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Washington, D.C.: Center for Global Development, December 12, 2002.

Larson, Alan. The Millennium Challenge Account. Statement by the Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agriculture Affairs before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Washington, D.C., March 4, 2003.

Lerrick, Adam. Real Relief for the World's Poor: The Millennium Challenge Corporation. Pittsburgh, PA: Gailliot Center for Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, February 2003.

MacCormack, Charles. How U.S. Charities View President Bush's New Development Assistance Proposal. Testimony by the president and CEO of Save the Children before the House International Relations Committee. Washington, D.C.: Save the Children, March 6, 2003.

McClymont, Mary. The Millennium Challenge Account: A New Way to Aid. Testimony by the president and CEO of InterAction before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Washington, D.C.: Interaction, March 4, 2003.

Natsios, Andrew S. Challenging Orthodoxy: Changing Perspectives on Development. Remarks by the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. London, October 21, 2002.

Natsios, Andrew S. Millennium Challenge Account. Testimony by the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Washington, D.C., March 4, 2003.

Nowels, Larry. The Millennium Challenge Account: Congressional Consideration of a New Foreign Aid Initiative. Washington D.C.: Congressional Research Service, January 3, 2003.

Open Society Institute (OSI). Forging a Bipartisan Approach to the MCA Initiative. Washington, D.C.: OSI, February 18, 2003.

Pasicolan, Paolo. The Millennium Challenge Account: Creating Effective Development Assistance. Washington, D.C.: Heritage Foundation, 2002.

Pasicolan, Paolo and Sara J. Fitzgerald. The Millennium Challenge Account: Linking Aid With Economic Freedom. Washington, D.C.: Heritage Foundation, October 17, 2002.

Radelet, Steven. The Millennium Challenge Account. Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Washington, D.C.: Center for Global Development, March 4, 2002.

Radelet, Steven. Qualifying for the Millennium Challenge Account. Washington, D.C.: Center for Global Development, December 13, 2002.

Radelet, Steven. "Will the Millennium Challenge Account Be Different?" Washington Quarterly, Spring 2003.

Schaefer, Brett D. The Millennium Challenge Account: An Opportunity to Advance Development in Poor Nations. Washington, D.C.: Heritage Foundation, July 12, 2002.

Schaefer, Brett D. and Aaron Schavey. America's International Development Agenda. Washington, D.C.: Heritage Foundation, May 6, 2002.

Shapiro, Isaac and David Weiner. "Still Not Enough Aid." Challenge, July 1, 2002.

Shapiro, Isaac and Nancy Birdsall. How Does the Proposed Level of Foreign Economic Aid Under the Bush Budget Compare with Historical Levels? And What Would Be the Effects of Bush's New "Millennium Challenge Account"? Washington, D.C.: Center for Global Development and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, March 20, 2002.

Taylor, John B. Millennium Challenge Account. Testimony by the Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Washington, D.C., March 4, 2003.

ON DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

Collier, Paul and David Dollar. Globalization, Growth, and Poverty: Building an Inclusive World Economy. New York, New York: World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2002.

Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). U.S. Development Co-operation Review: Main Findings and Recommendations. Paris: OECD, November 19, 2002.

Dobriansky, Paula J. The Progress and the Promise of the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Washington, D.C.: Heritage Foundation, October 4, 2002.

Dollar, David and Aart Kraay. Trade, Growth, and Poverty. Washington, D.C.: Development Research Group, World Bank, June 2001.

Dollar, David and Aart Kraay. Growth Is Good for the Poor. Washington, D.C.: Development Research Group, World Bank, April 2001.

Dollar, David Dollar and Lant Pritchett. Assessing Aid: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why. New York, New York: World Bank and Oxford University Press.

Easterly, William. The Cartel of Good Intentions: Markets vs. Bureaucracy in Foreign Aid. Washington, D.C.: Center for Global Development, March 2002 (revised April 2002.)

Heyneman, Stephen P. "Economic Development and the International Trade in Education Reform." Prospects, December 1997.

Heyneman, Stephen P. "From the Party/State to Multi-Ethnic Democracy: Education and Social Cohesion in the Europe and Central Asia Region." Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Summer 2000.

Heyneman, Stephen P. and Sanja Todoric-Bebic. "A Renewed Sense for the Purposes of Schooling: The Challenges of Education and Social Cohesion in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe and Central Asia." Prospects, June 2000.

King, Kenneth and Lene Buchert, eds. Changing International Aid To Education: Global Patterns and National Contexts. Paris: UNESCO Publishers, 1999.

Richardson, Peter. "Corruption," Managing Global Issues: Lessons Learned. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2001.

Soto, Hernando de. The Mystery of Capital. New York, New York: Basic Books, 2000.

World Bank Group. World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, September 2000.

World Bank Group. World Development Report 2003: Sustainable Development in a Dynamic World: Transforming Institutions, Growth, and Quality of Life. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, August 2002.

World Bank Group. Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2003.