page_title: Millennium Challenge Corporation
section_title: Selection indicators
hierarchical_section_title: Millennium Challenge Corporation / Selection indicators
caption_attribution_description: English: Girls' primary education completion rates for countries in Africa. Source data: MCC Open Data Catalog, FY 2014.
context_page_description: The Millennium Challenge Corporation is a bilateral United States foreign aid agency established by the U.S. Congress in 2004, applying a new philosophy toward foreign aid. MCC is an innovative and independent U.S. foreign assistance agency that is helping lead the fight against global poverty by providing time-limited grants that promote economic growth, reduce poverty, and strengthen institutions. These investments not only support stability and prosperity in partner countries but also enhance American interests.
context_section_description: MCC’s competitive selection process is a data-driven, transparent method for determining where the agency invests to reduce poverty and drive economic growth. To be considered for an MCC compact or threshold program, countries are expected to first pass MCC’s scorecard. The MCC Scorecard is an index combining a subset of 20 different policy assessments and measures a country’s policy performance in the areas of economic freedom, ruling justly and investing in its people. It also measures the strength and effectiveness of a country’s policy and institutional framework to prevent and combat corruption. Countries are ranked on the scorecard relative to their respective income groups. Scorecards are publicly available on the MCC website and updated each year. 
  The indicators are:
caption: Girls' primary education completion rates for countries in Africa.  Source data: MCC Open Data Catalog, FY 2014. [5]
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