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Local governance of Millennium Challenge Corporation projects by Lee, Nancy

“…Presentation by Nancy Lee, Deputy Chief Executive Office at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, on April 6, 2016 in Washington, DC…”
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Assessing climate resilience in rice production: Measuring the impact of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s IWRM scheme in the Senegal River Valley using remote sensing and machine learning by Fionnagáin, D.Ó., Geever, M., O’Farrell, J., Codyre, P., Trearty, R., Tessema, Y.M., Reymondin, Louis, Loboguerrero, Ana Maria, Spillane, Charlie, Golden, A

“…From 2015 to 2023, we applied this approach in a critical earth observation-based evaluation of the Irrigation and Water Resources Management component of the Millennium Challenge Corporation's Senegal Compact. This project, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), was implemented in the Senegal River Valley from 2010 to 2015. …”
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Tools for measuring the full impacts of agricultural interventions by Martin, Will

“…Even makers like those at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, with a strong focus on ensuring that interventions contribute to growth, also have a keen interest in poverty reduction and other goals such as enhancing gender equity. …”
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Prioritization of types of investments: Operational tools for MCC agricultural investments by Laborde Debucquet, David, Parent, Marie, Piñeiro, Valeria

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Prioritizing agricultural investments across commodities for income growth and poverty reduction: Methods and applications by Martin, Will, Minot, Nicholas

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What are the correlates of childhood undernutrition? An analysis of DHS data from Africa South of the Sahara by Haile, Beliyou, Ru, Yating, Ahn, Hee Eun

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The economic returns to nutrition-specific investments in Southern Asia and Africa South of the Sahara by Haile, Beliyou, Arndt, Channing, Ru, Yating, Alderman, Harold, Puett, Chloe

“…Besides discount rates previously used in the nutrition and economics literature (between 3% and 6%), we consider a 10% discount rate used by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) for the sake of comparability of economic returns to these nutritional investments with that of other sectoral investments by MCC.…”
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Impacts of agricultural investments on growth and poverty: A review of literature by Martin, Will

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Combining remotely sensed and survey data to better understand linkages between urbanization and child nutrition: Case study from Burkina Faso by Haile, Beliyou, Guo, Zhe, Arndt, Channing, Ahn, Hee Eun

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Literature review on linkages between child nutrition and economic growth by Haile, Beliyou, Azzarri, Carlo, Ahn, Hee Eun

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Survey on Gendered Constraints to Employment and Entrepreneurship by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The survey questionnaires were designed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to collect information on the experiences of and constraints to employment and entrepreneurship among men and women of working age (18-54 years old) in Malawi, and more broadly, to improve the integration of gender into growth constraints diagnostics, an analytic approach commonly used by development organizations, such as MCC, to identify ‘binding’ constraints to economic growth within a particular economy and prioritize policy reforms to ease those constraints.…”
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Geographic prioritization of agricultural investments by Maruyama, Eduardo, Scollard, Phoebe

“…Through the Notification of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the project “Advisory Services – Program Management for Development and Implementation within the Agricultural Sector” (DCO-PR-18-0293) issued a to the International Food Research Institute (IFPRI), the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) described a series of information needs and how IFPRI could provide research and analysis that would help the MCC maximize the effectiveness of their agricultural interventions. …”
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Qualitative Research Protocols for Measuring Gendered Constraints to Employment and Entrepreneurship in Malawi by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The qualitative research protocols were designed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to identify issues that most constrain women’s access to employment and entrepreneurship opportunities in Malawi and to understand how benefit streams for economic growth due to low participation of women in employment and entrepreneurship can be unlocked through removing constraints. …”
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