The Millennium Challenge Account’s (MCA) focus on results and creating incentives for developing countries to enact good policy continues to hold promise for a well-needed change in government-driven international development assistance. The continued success of the MCA will depend on the ability of the leadership to allow the mission – to reduce poverty through growth – to guide decisions.

"The Millennium Challenge Account: Property Rights and Entrepreneurship as the Engine of Development" is a comment submitted by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University’s Global Prosperity Initiative in the public interest, with the hope that the recommendations it contains will improve the outcome of this momentous policy action.