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• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Millennium Challenge Program - Brief article - Column

The Millennium Challenge Program is a Bush administration program that aims to make foreign aid more effective by funneling aid, in the words of the Post's Michael A. Fletcher and Paul Blustein, "only to poor nations deemed to have relatively honest governments."

But the new organization ran into a problem. It sought to hire a "chief economist who...