Comments on: 4th Anniversary of Millenium Challenge Corporation http://blog.globaldevelopmentmatters.org/2008/02/05/4th-anniversary-of-millenium-challenge-corporation/ Global development issues and the 2008 Presidential Election Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:28:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: AngieatWhatNewsShouldBeDotOrg http://blog.globaldevelopmentmatters.org/2008/02/05/4th-anniversary-of-millenium-challenge-corporation/#comment-482 AngieatWhatNewsShouldBeDotOrg Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:11:58 +0000 http://blog.globaldevelopmentmatters.org/2008/02/05/4th-anniversary-of-millenium-challenge-corporation/#comment-482 I don't think it's very helpful to re-post press releases and self-congratulatory news conferences about supposed "smart" aid organizations without examining whether the releases are accurate and in this case, whether the aid is really "smart". For a critical look at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, scroll down to the middle of my webpage to the title "BILLIONS Earmarked For Relief Go Unspent As People DIE" at http://tinyurl.com/2ve4ss . You'll also find there links to recent critical articles about the MCC such as the New York Times article entitled "U.S. Agency’s Slow Pace Endangers Foreign Aid" published just two months ago. This information certainly reveals that MCC's 4th anniversary is not an occasion for celebration. And their press conference should have been one in which they were demonstrating how they've reversed their incompetence despite the same people being at the helm. Angie www.WhatNewsShouldBe.org I don’t think it’s very helpful to re-post press releases and self-congratulatory news conferences about supposed “smart” aid organizations without examining whether the releases are accurate and in this case, whether the aid is really “smart”. For a critical look at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, scroll down to the middle of my webpage to the title “BILLIONS Earmarked For Relief Go Unspent As People DIE” at http://tinyurl.com/2ve4ss . You’ll also find there links to recent critical articles about the MCC such as the New York Times article entitled “U.S. Agency’s Slow Pace Endangers Foreign Aid” published just two months ago. This information certainly reveals that MCC’s 4th anniversary is not an occasion for celebration. And their press conference should have been one in which they were demonstrating how they’ve reversed their incompetence despite the same people being at the helm.

Angie
www.WhatNewsShouldBe.org

]]> By: Per Kurowski http://blog.globaldevelopmentmatters.org/2008/02/05/4th-anniversary-of-millenium-challenge-corporation/#comment-459 Per Kurowski Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:46:57 +0000 http://blog.globaldevelopmentmatters.org/2008/02/05/4th-anniversary-of-millenium-challenge-corporation/#comment-459 Immigrant workers in the US are estimated to remit around 33 billion dollars. If that amount represents 15 percent of what those immigrants earn one could say that this, not withstanding that the US benefits from it too, that it amounts to a de facto 220 billion dollars development program a year…more than twice the size of the outstanding loans of the World Bank… after more than sixty years of operations. In this respect I have always wondered why US programs like that of MCC do not team up much more directly with what could be their true development partners namely the emigrant/immigrant workers from the developing countries. Immigrant workers in the US are estimated to remit around 33 billion dollars. If that amount represents 15 percent of what those immigrants earn one could say that this, not withstanding that the US benefits from it too, that it amounts to a de facto 220 billion dollars development program a year…more than twice the size of the outstanding loans of the World Bank… after more than sixty years of operations.

In this respect I have always wondered why US programs like that of MCC do not team up much more directly with what could be their true development partners namely the emigrant/immigrant workers from the developing countries.

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